In a Fox News opinion piece, Pastor Corey Brooks criticises sports commentator Stephen A. Smith for remarks about the Los Angeles Lakers' roster in the post-LeBron James era, in which Smith noted that the team's top three players are White and suggested this was noteworthy for a basketball team. Brooks argues that singling out players by skin colour amounts to racism and reflects what he sees as a double standard, whereby celebrating a team's Black players is treated as progress while highlighting White players is treated as suspicious.

Brooks contends that race is irrelevant to sporting success, citing figures such as Michael Jordan and Larry Bird as examples of players who reached the top through talent, hard work and determination rather than skin colour. He frames Smith's comments as promoting tribalism and division, and sends a damaging message to young people. The article is an opinion column rather than a news report, and forms part of wider criticism of Smith, with other pieces calling for ESPN to hold him accountable.