After Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant strongly dismissed a Stephen A. Smith report that he was considering a move to the Los Angeles Lakers, Smith fired back on Monday, telling Durant “you don’t want to make an enemy out of me.”

In a segment on ESPN First Take, Smith said “You don’t want to make an enemy out of me. And I am looking right at the camera.” He also said that if he was lying in his initial report about Durant going to the Lakers, Durant should sign a long-term deal with Oklahoma City to prove him wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAEMjAktZ6Y

Dismissing Smith’s initial report, Durant said at the time: “I don’t talk to Stephen A Smith at all. Nobody in my family, my friends, they don’t talk to Stephen A Smith. So he’s lying.”

Smith set up his Monday pronouncement with this tweet:

While other people can debate the appropriateness of a media member telling a professional athlete that he doesn’t want to make an enemy out of him, the argument that Durant should sign an extension with the Thunder in order to prove Smith wrong is a specious one. Durant doesn’t have to do anything, and him not signing an extension with the Thunder by no means validates Smith’s report.

Update: Apparently we have misconstrued Stephen A. Smith telling Kevin Durant: “You don’t want to make an enemy out of me.”