Morgan should know better, but he doesn’t. He has a history of pushing the envelope on live television, so this one is on Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley and/or whoever decided to have Morgan on in the first place.

Prior to Game 3, I submitted a few questions to NBA.com as part of the Blogger Q&A with Kenny Smith. On the heels of two substandard performances by Amare Stoudemire in L.A., one of the questions I posed to Smith was whether or not he was playing himself out of a max contract with his performance against the Lakers.

Here’s what he had to say.

D’oh! If you don’t like the question, Kenny, pick a different one! Come on!

But I still wonder — even though Stoudemire will almost certainly sign a max deal this summer, is he really worth it?