Stephen A. Smith and Molly Qerim on ESPN (Photo via Twitter)
USC superstar Juju Watkins will miss the rest of March Madness after suffering a devastating ACL injury.

The 2025 NCAA women’s basketball tournament landscape changed dramatically on Monday night when No. 1 seed USC lost its star guard to a season-ending knee injury during its emotional win against No. 9 Mississippi State.

The prospect of a showdown between two of college basketball’s biggest stars, Watkins and UConn guard Paige Bueckers, was easily a main talking point heading into the tournament.

Now that Watkins is out, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith made no secret of how easy things have gotten for UConn.

He addressed the unfortunate circumstance on his show FIRST TAKE.

During Tuesday’s episode of First Take, ESPN moderator Molly Qerim asked WNBA star Napheesa Collier if she’s feeling good about UConn’s chances this March.

Before she could say anything, Smith chimed in with a crazy comment about JuJu Watkins.

“You should be feeling good now,” Smith said. “JuJu got hurt.”

Fans were disgusted:

“I find myself asking every year why this man still has the platform he does,” one fan said.

“gross as fuck, he shouldn’t have a job,” a second fan stated.

“I want him deplatformed,” a third fan said of his comment on JuJu Watkins.

“He’s such a f–king weirdo. LeBron should’ve beat his ass right there on the spot 😭,” a fourth fan added.

“athlete’s gotta stop going on this show. Dude has consistently shown he’s a terrible human,” a final fan said.

JuJu Watkins Has A Long Road To Recovery

JuJu Watkins (Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images)
USC women’s basketball star JuJu Watkins was left screaming in agony after appearing to suffer a serious right knee injury in the first quarter of the Trojans’ Second Round game.

Watkins suffered a torn ACL during her team’s 96-59 win over No. 9 seed Mississippi State in the second round of the 2025 Women’s NCAA Tournament.

Watkins is likely to be out for nine months, which means she will miss a large part of the 2025 season

VIDEO: Some Dude Just Dropped The Cold Hard Truth On Why All Of These NFL Prospects Are “Dating White Women”

Unless this is your first day in America, then you know race relations in this country dominate just everything, and that includes NBA and NFL drafts

During the most recent NFL Draft in Detroit, social media was buzzing as athletes showed up to the red carpet event with their girlfriends and family. Many of the incoming NFL rookies were African-American and were spotted with white women, which has become the usual theme for years.

The same thing happens with the NBA Draft.

This year, the discourse on the NFL Draft and NBA Draft has gotten even louder as African-American women openly pondered why so many of the players never have a partner that is the same race as them.

One guy on TikTok decided to answer that question by revealing that the vast majority of his division-1 friends in college or headed to the league are dating or married to white women and explained why.

He stated that some of them had told him that their white girlfriend looked up to Taylor Swift while their girlfriend looked up to Megan The Stallion. He then states the guy asks how many white women he has seen doing the Megan Thee Stallion challenge as opposed to Black women.

He then dove into another story of a friend who relayed that his Black girlfriend started to request money from him as soon as she found out about his NIL money. She wanted her hair and nails done. He then added that the Black women would be upset if they went to places like Chipotle, and she demanded steak houses.