Kevin Durant Trolls Stephen A. Smith for Playing Solitaire On His Phone During the NBA Finals

Perhaps Stephen A. Smith didn’t play his cards correctly. Even rival NBA player Kevin Durant has joined in the jeering of the divisive ESPN broadcaster for playing the well-known card game Solitaire during the Thunder’s 111-104 victory over the Pacers on the road in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday.

Durant shared a picture of Smith playing the game at Indianapolis’ Gainbridge Fieldhouse on his Instagram account.

On the bottom of the picture, Durant wrote: “CMON STEVE,”

In response to a quote tweet from a well-known NBA aggregator on X @LegionHoops that showed him playing cards, Smith insisted he only used the mobile version of the game when play was halted.

“Yep! That’s me. Who would’ve thought….I can multi-task. Especially during TIMEOUTS!” “Hope y’all are enjoying the NBA Finals. This is going 7 games now, peeps!”

Yep! That’s me. Who would’ve thought….I can multi-task. Especially during TIMEOUTS! Hope y’all are enjoying the NBA Finals.

This is going 7 games now, peeps! https://t.co/nLdWJf5vqf

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 14, 2025

But that response isn’t being accepted by everyone. Smith is allegedly making up his narrative, according to the community note on his post, which also included a video of Smith playing the game during in-game action. Smith posted a picture of a Solitaire hand with an inset of the Pacers leading, 87-80, with 11:36 left in the game shortly after midnight in an attempt to grab the last laugh.

In the last three minutes, the Thunder scored 12-1 more points than the Pacers, tying the series at 2-2.

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