But because I’m not a beat writer anymore in the locker room, folks want to say I’m not a journalist. Mike Wilbon does, because Mike Wilbon has done it. And I get where Michael Wilbon is coming from, because he’s speaking in a literal sense about what I do right now. “When I say to an athlete that will come at me or anybody else in sports that I’m a journalist, I’m talking about by trade and nature. Whether or not that means Smith is a “journalist” now, at this very moment, is beside the point.