ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith revealed he and Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving have an issue on a "personal level" as he opened up about a heated moment with Jay Williams on his show "First Take."

Smith and Williams got into a tiff around the time Irving was traded from the Brooklyn Nets to the Mavericks in February. 

The tension was heated between the two sides, and Smith talked about it on BetRivers’ "The Mike Missanelli Podcast" on Wednesday.

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He said he was unsure what the deal was with Williams but admitted he had a "personal" beef with the superstar point guard.

"Now Kyrie and I have our differences on a personal level, which is none of anybody’s business and I’ll never tell why," Smith said. "He knows why. And his daddy knows why. They know how I feel about how they’ve acted towards me and they know how I feel about them and I know how they feel about me. But I can say that to anybody out there because I know that that does not interfere with my reporting on him and my perspective based off of the facts."

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Irving has taken the brunt of the criticism in his Nets tenure for skipping several games in 2021 while he chose to take some time away from the team to address some personal issues and then last season when missed games due to his decision not to get the coronavirus vaccine.

This season, Irving was criticized when he appeared to tweet a link to a movie on Amazon that spreads antisemitic disinformation. Smith was one of the pundits and analysts who criticized Irving for failing to disavow antisemitism quicker.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will enter the 2023 offseason with a hole at the quarterback position left by the retirement of Tom Brady after three seasons and a Super Bowl with the organization.

Brady retired "for good" in February launching a potential rebuild for the franchise just a few seasons after they won the Super Bowl over Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Tampa Bay had Kyle Trask and Blaine Gabbert on the roster to back up Brady, but 2023 could be different.

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Tampa Bay is expected to target Baker Mayfield, the former No. 1 overall pick who played for the Carolina Panthers and Los Angeles Rams in 2022, in free agency, the NFL Network reported. Mayfield could reportedly be thought of as the "sensible choice" as the Buccaneers take a look at the veteran quarterback market.

Mayfield appeared in 12 games between the Panthers and Rams last season. He was acquired by the Panthers from the Cleveland Browns before the start of the 2022 season. He had 2,163 passing yards, 10 touchdown passes and eight interceptions during the year.

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Trask was a second-round pick out of Florida in 2021. He made one appearance last season, He was 3-for-9 passing for 23 yards.

Gabbert, another former first-round pick, had been with the Buccaneers since 2020. He has appeared in 11 games for Tampa Bay and has tallied 239 passing yards and three touchdowns.

The Buccaneers also have the 19th pick of the first round of the NFL Draft.