Stephen A. Smith's ‘First Take’ achieves notable record in Shannon Sharpe’s debut

The results are in for Shannon Sharpe’s ‘First Take’ debut and they are a resounding success.

Stephen A. Smith announced on Twitter on Sept. 7 that Shannon Sharpe’s “First Take” debut on Monday, saw 727,000 viewers, which he said was the show’s second-highest rated telecast of the year.

“Just wanted to take a moment to give some love to my man @ShannonSharpe,” Smith tweeted.

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Smith joked that Sharpe still has “some climbing to do” because his appearance still fell short of the top marker for the year.

Just wanted to take a moment to give some love to my man @ShannonSharpe. Why? Because I’m his first day in the job, @FirstTake did 727K Viewers. It’s our 2nd-Highest rated show of the year, so ya still got some climbing to do, my brother! Just kidding. Welcome aboard bro! Let’s…— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) September 7, 2023

Sharpe replied minutes later saying that he thinks the two might hit a million viewers when the NBA season returns and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has a big scoring game.

Wait until @KingJames aka GOAT JAMES drops FIDDY on someone’s head. We’ll do a milli. Bring pepto cause I’mma make you sick.