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(NYT53) NEW YORK -- July 27, 2005 -- Adv. for Sunday, July 31, 2005 -- ESPN-SMITH -- If youÕre a sports fan - more specifically, a basketball fan - you may already find it hard to avoid Stephen A. Smith, seen on the Manhattan ESPN studio set on July 19, 2005in. He is the emerging face of hoops talk at ESPN, a fierce, confident, at times bombastic presence whose brash, clamorous style not only punctuates his reporting and analysis but sometimes eclipses them. (Chester Higgins, Jr./The New York Times)