Club Shay Shay - Nightcap - Hour 1: LeBron reaches 50k points, Kyrie tears ACL, Mavs fans upset

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson react to Lakers star LeBron James reaching 50k points scored, Kyrie Irving tearing his ACL, the Mavericks raising ticket prices, and more!03:52 - LeBron reaches 50,000 points07:00 - Kevin Durant and Coach Bud get into it19:27 - Jeanie Buss says Anthony Davis wasn’t happy25:44 - Kyrie Irving suffers injury31:00 - Mavericks set to raise season ticket prices42:50 - Lamelo Ball could be traded this season(Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.)#Volume #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5G speed not available in all areas. It just goes to show you, can you imagine if LeBron, because Luca is really the only guy that LeBron is truly trusted to have the ball exclusively in his hands. Yes sir. Now we go back and say you know what if LeB had somebody he trusted, and he didn't have to have the rock in his hand, and he can do what he's doing now. Spot up, he can get to the high pick and roll, or he could, whatever.

He can slash, he can cut. You see what he's doing at 40. So imagine LeBron at 25 and 30, and he has a Luka that he doesn't have to worry about setting him up. He doesn't have to worry about running the offense. Luka can do everything that LeBron does and LeBron gets to focus on just this. Yes. Yes. What do you think his numbers would have been? So now he doesn't have to worry about facilitating. Now his assist total might be a little lower because he's not

gonna have the ball in his hand primarily. That's gonna go to Luca. Right. But you see scoring and the percentage in which he's shooting. Go back and look at since Luca's arrived, look at his three point field goal percentage, look at his field goal percentage,

look at his point total. That's crazy. Everything has increased because you know what? A lot has been taken off of his plate, Ocho. He doesn't have to worry about facilitating for everybody. He doesn't have to worry about all that other stuff. He can just say, look, you have that. Let me get like three runouts a game.

Let me get a couple of dives to the baskets. I hit a couple of threes. Hell, that damn near 20 right there. But it's been unbelievable to watch. Yeah. And like I said, I'm old enough to remember a lot of the great players I saw. I saw Magic in person once, but most of the time, I mean to see Bird and Magic and Akeem and all these great players and now the Steph Curry, the KDs and all that stuff to see these guys play. LeBron, Kobe, Shaq. I don't think we're going to see somebody else get 50,000, Ocho. I really don't.

50,000 right here, Shaq. And plus, Ocho, here's what we're saying. We're under the assumption, huh? We're under the assumption that he stops playing. Who's to say this thing is not going to be 52, 53,000? Yeah, he can keep going, especially with Luke at the helm now. You know, Luke could take all the pressure off the bar. Oh, he could easily play another two, three.

Oh, yeah. He could easily play another two to three years. Yeah. The question is, he says keeping his mind sharp because he's been searching that routine. And I don't believe Savannah is putting the pressure on like, hey, baby, you need to come home blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He like no, because you know, hey, bro, I know what you like when you when you home,

you will be moody as hell. So I can see LeBron legitimately, Ocho. I can see him playing another two to three years. And I wouldn't be surprised if that were to happen. But at the level that he's playing at, he's playing at an extremely high level. It's great to see. Ocho, Kevin Durant and Coach Bud got into it last night. Check this interaction out, Ocho.

During the time out early in the game, Coach Bud and Hoser grabbed KD's arm in an apparent attempt to pull him in for a conversation. But KD pulled his arm away. Then they engaged in a brief animated conversation before party waves. KD spoke about it after the game. Let's take a listen to what KD had to say.

Yeah, that's what usually happens when you don't know the dynamics of a relationship. You know, you catch something on TV, you get a quote, and now you pushing that narrative as if me and Bud don't do that shit all the time. We competitive as two individuals who want to see things done the right way. And sometimes my way ain't the way that Bud want to do it, and vice versa. And he allows me as a player on the team, a veteran on the team, a voice on the team. If we both didn't care, we would never have stuff like that.

You know what I'm saying? So I am glad that the win is going to sweep all that stupid stuff under the rug, because people couldn't wait. Even some people in Phoenix in here couldn't wait to run with that, you know, and say, oh, this is the reason why the team ain't playing well, because of that specific thing. But come on, man. That shows that me and bud really care

about trying to fight this shit and trying to win basketball games. So he understands where I'm coming from. I understand exactly where he's coming from. It's just people on the outside don't know the dynamics of the relationship. So, you know, in order for them to get some attention, they gonna run with stuff like that.

You heard it. Yeah. He says, hey, sometimes I see things one way, but I don't. You heard it. Yeah. He says, Hey, sometimes I see things one way, but I don't see it that way. Right. Sometimes buzz see things one way. I don't see it that way. We had the difference of a group.

We had a different of opinions. Hey, he cares. I care. We trying to get this shit right. And, and he's right. I mean, look, that makes it seem like that's never happened before. I've seen coaches and players, they shove each other

and all can yell, curse, all that kind of stuff. It happens. You get two animated testosterone driven men that I believe what I'm saying is right. He believes what he's saying is right. Two people can't be right. Maybe, hey, two things can be true. Maybe you're right and maybe he's right.

But at that point in time, we don't see it that way. I want you to see my point of view. Right. Oh, bro. I need you to see my point of view. Right. But all I don't know what happened. But I know KD went crazy in the fourth quarter and it was down 23 and they won the game. That's what I do know. Listen, the funny thing about it with the sons. Listen, when you're losing everything and magnified. Yeah. When you're losing the way they are, even though they won that specific game, everything is magnified. Unless you played organized sports

in a structured environment, you'll never understand that dynamic. You'll never understand it. That goes on all the time, especially when it comes to a player of that magnitude that's great and you have a coach and the coach wants to see you do your best. Or if you're not playing to your full potential,

they're going to get on you just like that. That happens not just at the elite level with NBA players, NFL players. It starts even when you're young. The problem that you've got to worry about is when you have a coach that cares about you and he stops talking to you. And he doesn't try to correct you.

He's not on your head and trying to get you to do things the right way. That mean he doesn't care. So when I see as a former athlete, stuff like that happen, it resonates with me because I've been in that situation before where Hugh Jackson getting on me on the sideline, of course, because I'm trying my hardest. I fire back, you know? I talk back a little bit, but you know, Hugh, man, Hugh would grab me by the neck. Man, don't play with me. Not today.

Hugh from, Hugh from Carpenter. Hey, you don't play, you know? Man, you a damn fool. Hugh good people, but Hugh good people, I like you. But you know what, Ocho, you're right, you're absolutely right with a lot of times like, you know, in the heat of the battle, you forget, man, I shouldn't do this in front of all these people

because there's 70, 80,000 people watching and there's cameras everywhere. You forget sometimes. You do forget. You absolutely forget. According to my... I always try to be mindful, you know, hey, let's get this behind closed door. I'm just

gonna give you a look. You mean like that look you gave me when you thought I was late on first date? Hey, hey, nah, that was like, like coaches like, hey bro, look here. I won't allow you to say anything to me Mary Porter didn't say. Right. Mary Porter ain't never called me no mofo. She ain't never called me no SOB. So now if you think you can call me that,

now you know what? I'm gonna take this uniform off, I'm gonna whip your ass, cause I know I ain't gonna be here. But all that, all that, all that stupid, you know what? I don't play that. Nah, give me that. Cause, nah, I don't play like that, Ocho.

I don't. So we had, hey, we just had, I had a great understanding. Hey bro, don't, hey, come on now. I ain't your kid. I got kids. You got kids, I got kids. You just can't talk to me any kind of way. I understand.

Trust me, tell me what I did wrong. I'm not gonna make that same mistake twice. But you're not finna call me dumb, you know, you stupid. No, no, no, no, I can't get that like that. I ain't finna hold you. Y'all can talk about sensitive all you want to, but I'm big, I'm huge on respect. Respect, yeah.

Oh man, I give it to everybody. I give, I believe every man or woman deserves a certain level of respect. Yeah, oh man. Now, when that level of respect dissipates, it's best that you and I go out separate ways. That's okay. We don't, look, we, and then sometimes on show, like, when you on a team, you ain't gonna get along with everybody. Yeah. Hey, you do your thing. I'm gonna do my thing on this field.

Hey, when the whistle blows, try to go out certain ways. Yeah. Go on my show. Walk about in the locker room, eh. Like I don't even know you. There it is. There it is. Yeah. There it is.

All this, man, you ain't, bro, he was a teammate. You not buddy buddy with everybody that's on your team. You buddy buddy with everybody in your work office? Y'all go out to lunch and do happy hour, go to each other's crib? No! That's what, I mean, some guys are close like that, Ocho. They are. Yeah. Yeah.

Some guys not. This ain't college. Well, you see it, you know what I'm saying? I will pass the guy in the hallway going to class, or he might be in the same class. Bro, a lot of these guys, they got families, they got kids and y'all, you know, we own different wavelengths and that's okay.

We just try to do the same. When we at work, hopefully we got the same goal, Ojo, to try to win as many games we possibly can. What you go home? Done deal. Yeah, but I'm not making too much out of it with the KD interaction that's happened. Like I said, I've seen coaches, hey, coaches and players.

Man, I've seen, I've seen a basketball player beat the basketball coach so down, we had to go pull him up off it. I ain't bullshiting you, Ocho. Ocho, would I say he beat him down? Ocho, would I say he beat him down? Right, he must've said something slick, huh? I don't know what he said. And, you know, I'm looking at the bathroom,

where did I see him argue? Right. Cause I ain't never seen, look, Ocho, I've seen players and coaches argue in that setting on the football field, on the basket. Okay, that's one thing, but bro, we not in that environment, we not on the football field, we not on the basketball court,

and you argue with me like, we just two ninjas in the street? So I'm like, but damn. I said, man, let me go on down there for something pop off. So I go down there, I'm just, you know, I'm, it ain't me go down there for something pop off. So I go down there. I'm just, you know, I'm, it ain't got nothing to do with me. So I really shouldn't be.

The next thing I know, whoo, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop, whop. Oh Joe, I be like, okay, you probably, as far as because first of all, you don't live on campus. For you to bring your ass back on campus after practice is over to come back up here and front this man, you probably was getting what you deserved.

Where I intervened when he started kicking him, putting feet on him. I said, no, I can't let you do that. Yeah, you gotta go get him. I had to get him up off of him. And they're like, bro. Now look here, I said, coach, go head on now, cause if I turn this man loose,

after I done got him up off you. That's on you. That's on you now. Round two. Hey, I said, hey, I called my other, hey man, get coach up out of here. Ocho, when I say he whipped him. Yeah.

Hold on, so that was the coach that the player was part of the team? Yes. Hold on, was the player the coach, that the player was part of the team? Yes. Hold on, was the player allowed to remain on the team after that? Yeah. Oh, he must have been. He played a couple of, I think he ended up

leaving on his own, but he didn't kick him off. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was the coach's fault. Okay, so he must have been a star player. He wasn't a star player, but he was a good player. He was a decent player. Okay was he wasn't a star player, but he was a good player. He was a player. OK, OK, OK, OK. But my thing is, if I'm a coach, here's the thing. Yeah.

If you let a puppy lick you in the mouth, you better be careful because he going to grow up to be a dog and he'll bite you. Man, boy. When you. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that.

I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with that. a puppy lick you in the mouth, he'll grow up and bite you when he become a dog. See, if you put yourself on that level, see the problem that the coach had is

that he put himself on that level to be with the player. So the player no longer looked at him as the coach. Right. He looked at him as like, like a common, like another player. Let a puppy lick you in the mouth. And so that's why, that's, Ocho, that's why with kids, you stay up here, Ocho. You don't say, oh, that's my friend. Oh, that's my best friend.

Me and my daughter, me and my son, we like best friends. Ain't no, we not, no, no, no, we not. I'll tear your ass up. Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All-Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat, Greatest of Their Era. And we ranked our top five shooters from the 2000s.

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with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Genie Buss says Anthony Davis wasn't happy. We have lost the last three years in a row to the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs, and we really didn't have anything that was going to look different going into the playoffs again. Anthony Davis was complaining about where he's being played, and he wasn't happy. So I think this was a positive for both teams.

They got what they were looking for and we got what we were looking for. Oh, Joe. Yeah. Do you believe that was fair for Jeannie to say? I mean, no. I mean, well, kind of kind of to give them a reason. Remember, you like you like for people to be honest, you like for people to speak. You do that. What you say is I like for them to be honest. You like for people to speak the truth. That what you saying? I like for him to be honest. That was very transparent. That is why the that's why the deal was made. Listen, 80 80 wasn't happy. Obviously he didn't show any type of emotion. He

didn't. He didn't show that any signs him of him being unhappy, especially on the court. He went out there and did what he was supposed to do. But if you if you're not happy and you keep things behind closed doors internally, this is what you get. They give you your wish. Now you got your wish just so happened that Luca became available and it worked in the Lakers' favor.

Okay, you not happy? We gonna do your solid, young bull. We gonna see you over to Dallas and Luca gonna come over here and both parties are happy. I'm sure he's happy now. Well, I mean, outside of being injured, outside of being injured.

Me, and I'm trying to be like, AD wasn't asking you to go get him Joel and beat him in a cola-yolkage. Yes, sir. Just give him an able-bodied person AD wasn't asking you to go get him Joel Embiida and Nikola Jokic. Yes, sir. Just give him an able-bodied person so he can slide to the four. A little big. And then the last five minutes of the game, I'll play the five. Okay.

He don't like being down at the five, huh? If you look at AD's best years, he had it with Boogie. Yeah. Boogie was at the five. Yeah. AD was at the four. If you go back and look at JaVale McGee at the five, Dwight Howard at the five, AD was at the four. If you go back and look at JaVale McGee at the five, Dwight Howard at the five, AD at the four.

But when it came down to crunch time, AD slid to the five, and a lot of times, LeBron was the four man, but he played the point. That was okay, but here's the kicker, Ocho. In order for this deal to get consummated, AD had to waive his no trade clause. Yeah. Yeah.

Everything she's everything Jeannie Busse said could be true. Yes, sir. But considering the man could have held this thing up and Nico probably takes this deal to somebody else. Just keep that behind closed doors. OK, OK, OK. Well, listen, at this point, this is good. Maybe we get more owners being transparent and being honest and coming out and say,

well, this individual wasn't happy, so we granted them exactly what they wanted. And there ain't nothing wrong with that. It probably would. It's hard for me. Now, it's hard for me to see a scenario, Ocho, where this wasn't conveyed to them at some point in time in the process. Ahead of time? Yes, I'm gonna come when he was at the pelicans. Right? Yes, for sure. Okay, okay, sure. Because if you go back, if you go back and look at it, they had

the Javelle McGee and Dwight Howard, right? A.D.'s first year there, they won the championship. And you blow that up? Why would you not? And I get it. I mean, like I said, I don't think AD was asking for, hey, I need a top five center. He just needs somebody that could eat up the minutes.

So he doesn't wear himself down, trying to bang with Yoke, trying to bang with him B, trying to bang with those big bodies. Let those guys, now the last five minutes, I got you. Don't even worry about it, I got you. The last five, let me at it. I don't really think that's a bad thing to say. Yeah, he said it on several occasions.

His last interview, I don't know if it was Dave Mcminneman or Shams, but he said, you know, hey, I would like to have a five. I think that's all we missing. Five, let me slide the four, the last five minutes of the game. Hey, I got it. Yeah, I just think the thing is for me, me personally,

like I said, hey, everybody's entitled to their opinion, I think, but ADB and his classes he was, cause he could have held it up and said, nah, I ain't waiving my trade clause. I came to LA, I'm gonna stay in LA. And then now Lucas maybe somewhere else where the trade doesn't happen. Now you get a bonafide superstar for the next 10 years. Right. In Luka. So I, like I said, I just, in some situations, Ocho, it is okay. It is okay for you to just sit on the truth. It doesn't hurt anybody.

If she keeps this, Ocho, is anybody harmed if she keeps this? Because the way she said it, it makes it seem like, well, we were kind of looking to trade AD because he was starting to complain and it became, started to become an issue. Right. You see what I'm saying? Yes, sir.

I just think a situation like that, just sit on that information, you know it, and that's how you feel, got no problem with that. But it's okay if everything is not brought up, everything is not mentioned, because AD's played well. Yeah, he's been nicked a couple of times. It ain't no harm in losing to, you talk about one of the great players.

We're gonna all see, when it's all said and done, we'll see what Nicole Yocas rank. But y'all make it seem, who the hell y'all think, I mean, the Lakers put somebody out every year. The Celtics were putting people out every year. Jordan was putting people every year. When it's all said and done, Yocic gonna be up there.

He has three MVPs in a four year span. He's probably gonna finish second this year. Who's to say he doesn't win another one or another two or win another championship? So losing to Nicola Yocic ain't bad. Right. That's like Toronto saying, man, every year, So losing to Nicola Jokic ain't bad. That's like Toronto said, man, every year, man, we lost to LeBron. Really?

That's what y'all feel bad about? Losing to LeBron every year? A lot of people lost to LeBron. Or losing to Steph or losing to one of these other great players over a extended period of time. There is nothing wrong with that. Ocho, Kyrie was helped to the locker room after an apparent leg injury. He stayed in the game and drained two free throws

before leaving the court. Would Kyrie, the question is Ocho, you wanna put that Maverick's game up, Kyrie playing this kind of, and he has to, AD's out and you traded Luca. So now, and you're out lively and you're without Daniel Gafford. So he's having a long minute,

try to keep them afloat until AD comes back. But you're putting a lot of, you're putting a lot of, he's got to do an awful lot. He's got to facilitate, he's got to score. That's awful lot. He's got to facilitate. He's got to score. That's that's that's a lot. But listen, when you when you think about what he has to do with AD being out a player like Kyrie of of his excuse me of his caliber that can that can run the offing that can set things up that can facilitate that can get hot on any night, especially when he has to score

when the only is on him to to lead the way Kyrie can do that. So when you say it's a lot, it's a lot to ask of him to do. And he's the type of player he's one of the ones that left Cleveland because he wanted to be the head dog, right? Right. So this is your chance. This is the chance. But he's finding out there's a lot more. There's a lot more going into it.

There'll be a lot more going into it than being the lead dog. Now, yeah, you're going gonna score a bunch of points. But at the end of the day, people are gonna be looking at you like, bro, what's going on? What about that team? I see you're gonna win it. I mean, he's averaging the third most minutes per game

in his career. And he's doing it as he's starting to get older. Normally the minutes decrease. You play, if you go back and look at Kobe, you look at LeBron and you look at Jordan, they're playing 39, 40, I think one year, LeBron played 42 minutes a night. Jordan was up there, Kobe was up there,

but as you start getting 30, now you start coming back, whoa, whoa, I need to be around somewhere between 35 and 37. What's he averaging now? He might be averaging 35, 37. 30 minutes, 37? 37. What's the average now? He got KD Hard playing 36 minutes and you got AD, 36 minutes and you got KD Harden, 36 minutes and you got LeBron. Cause you can be out there on the court for 36 minutes and you can coast.

KD gonna get buckets, Harden gonna get me buckets, Lukaku will get me buckets, LeBron, AD. Bro, when you out there with the, you got the work. You know, sometimes on your show, you show up at the job, hey, you just show up, you out there with you, you got to work. You know, sometimes I don't know you show up at the job. Hey, you just show up. You just there. I ain't doing no work today. I'm talking to everybody because I know everybody else

go do their job. It ain't like that right now with Kyrie and Dallas. And they're trying to do everything they can to kind of stay in the sixth spot. Don't have to do the play in their book to play. You know, if you're in the sixth spot, you avoid the play in. Uh, and so they're hopefully, I'm sure they're hoping they can get ID back at some point in time, probably having reevaluated in the next seven to 10 days and see where that goes. But, uh, I wish Kyrie a speedy recovery. Hopefully is nothing serious.

Was it, was it, did he hyper extend it or did he step on somebody's foot and twist his ankle which which one was it? I didn't see it Ocho. Yeah even even even even on the replay I still couldn't tell you know what happened but he couldn't he couldn't put it he couldn't put any weight on that foot it was his right foot you know to be exact I'm with them having, the way they helped him off the court, it wasn't a hyperextension. I think he twisted his ankle a little bit. And I'm not even gonna talk about my. Oh, he stepped on the guy's ankle

and his knee kinda buckled a little bit. That's Balanchunas, I think. And wasn't that Balanchunas he stepped on? Yeah. He stepped on it, he stepped on his foot. And he. Hey, that's one of the saying. Yeah. He stepped on it. He stepped on his foot and he'd hey, that's that's one of the worst things you do. I mean, I know. I mean,

you're a you're a hooper. You're a hooper when you step on somebody's ankle and your eyes are looking up so you're not you're not you're not ready for it and the foot is already relaxed too. So, you're getting relaxed too. So, they're in the 10th spot.

That's the play. That's the last spot for the play in. Yeah. It's not looking good, which will be even worse for Nico Harris. If they, because at one point they were where they were, I think they were in the fifth or the sixth spot. And now all

of a sudden AD comes in have so much promise. He goes out and now you slide and you miss the playoffs and Luca are in the playoffs. They go from seven to two. Yeah and you go. You go. Harris gonna look crazy at that. Huh? He looking crazy as

it is the Dallas Mavericks raise ticket prices site investments. The Dallas Mavericks reveal that they're raising their season ticket price next season, I think about an average of 8, almost 9%, just weeks after dealing Luca to the Lakers. The Mavericks says season tickets will go up by 8.61%, which is about 9%, and the increase is due to ongoing investments in the team and fan engagements. One fan tweeted, 30 days ago the Dallas Mavericks traded away their homegrown superstar, called him fat and laughed in the fans face about it. Today they decided to almost double the prices of my season tickets from the past couple

of years. The new ownership is disgustingly out of touch. Not only are they out of touch, can you can you give me a better reason what team was business actually raises prices mid season? No, this is for next season. Well, even oh, they oh, they took

no, we give you a head up. Let you say you like my grandchild say, boy, save your pennies up so you can get it. Oh, they let you know ahead of time. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I don't get ready to say, but that's that's slightly disrespectful. I don't look if they had kept Luca and say

we gotta raise ticket prices, I don't think fans would have had anything to had nothing bad to say about that decision. No joke because it's Luca. Oh, cuz normally you wanna keep your home going homegrown guys. Yeah. Especially if they wanna stay cuz a lot of times they get you know, you see Zion. He wanted to leave AD wanted to leave LeBron ended up leaving KD ended up leaving Russ left Harden left Reggie Jack I mean so so forth and so the list goes on and on about you getting these guys and then them leaving

Luca from all from everything that I've read and people that was close to him that knows him. He didn't want to leave Dallas everything that I've read and people that was close to him that knows him, he didn't want to leave Dallas. The fans didn't want him to leave Dallas. Now, if you ask Philly fans, they might not be so disappointed if you trade Joel Embiid, considering his injury history and he's missed as many games as he's played. I don't think the fans were disappointed when they traded Ben Simmons, considering the regression that they had started to see in his plate. Luca, we saw no regression. We only saw ascension in his plate and they traded him.

And after you trade him, you have the unmitigated gall. You have the audacity to bring your ass in here and talk about you raising prices. No. And listen, and you know what? You know what? Also, when Nico Harris makes a move like that, one thing that you can stand on is hoping that whoever you trade for replaces the product that actually left and it makes the fans forget about the trade.

Yes. On your production and what you do. But he's been out and then to say what you say, what's going to happen next year, what you do but he's he's been out and then to say what you say, what's going to happen next year, what you're raising the prices. Well, how about you all fix? How about you fix this season first? Fix

the product on the court. Because then we want to talk about it. We wouldn't have a problem paying for next season if what we wanted and we were getting was on point this year. Ain't no fixing this year. This is your team moving forward. The question is how soon does AD comes back

and what's the severity of Kyrie's injury? Because if both is down for a substantial amount of time, this season is over. This season is over. You're not gonna be without four of your top six, seven guys and think you're gonna be be make the playoff. That ain't happening. They're a good team. They're not that good. No team could overcome being without say a Kyrie or AD, a Gaffer, a Lively. That ain't happening. So the only thing they can hope is hope

and pray that within the next seven to 10 days, they can come back and they can go on a little run. Because it's not like they got a whole lot of game. It's not two months left in the season, Ojo. It's one month left in the regular season. And they need to figure this thing out. But it's, bro, when you, when you, when, first of all, fans like we already being pinched. We already been pinned. You see they cutting jobs and inflation

and eggs and gas and milk and these prices are rising. The cost of the family is rising. And bro, y'all just traded the person that I wouldn't mind paying $500 a game to come see. Y'all traded him and now y'all asking me to pay 750 No, hell no. Hey You think about you think about look at the landscape of the NBA on And you think about prices on how much tickets cost there are two or three players on every team on every team

I don't care how you look at it. We're fans of that that put butts in the seats It's about two or three players that actually put butts in the seats. We talked about two or three players that actually put butts in the seats regardless of what the price of the tickets are. They make you forget about it. They make you forget about the economy because I know what I'm getting once I go watch these boys play.

And you need superstars because at the NBA, look, it's all about a superstar. That's why the Lakers try to move heaven and earth to try to keep them. And for the longest time, they've always had them. They had, I mean, when they was in Minneapolis, they had George Michael. And for the longest time they've always had them. They had, I mean, when they was in Minneapolis, they had George Michael. And then when they come to LA, they had Baylor and they had Jerry West. And then they make the trade, then they get Will.

And then a couple of years later, they get Kareem and then they drafted magic and they get Bob McAdoo and they draft James Worthy. And then they make the, they get Shaq and then they make the trade for Kobe. And then they get LeBron to come that's what the Lakers do you have to have superstars people want to see superstars the best of the best or what they'll do you'll sell the building out when those superstars come so when Steph Curry's on coming to your town it's gonna sell out when LeBron come is gonna sell out I mean when Jordanron come, it's gonna sell out. I mean, when Jordan was in the league, team you already knew.

Jordan gonna be a sellout. Kobe and Shaq gonna be a sellout. LeBron then was gonna be a sellout, you knew that. Bro, I wanna sell out my home. I want my home game to sell out regardless. Cause we play it. Not that y'all coming, not that y'all coming, y'all coming to see somebody else. Right.

Hey, can you imagine what the price of tickets were, court side? When Kobe and Shaq were together? Can you imagine what the price, and I know the price is probably extensive now, and I'm sure it's going up since then, but can you imagine what it was? Especially come playoffs or big game, they play San Antonio or they play, you know, they, who else was a rival of theirs? Oh, Sacramento was a rival of their when they had Chris Webb and they had Jay Will. The Sons, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, but now? That's crazy. Boy, Luca, Luca first game. Hey, now. Yeah, which, which is in Corsair was, huh? Just, just, matter of fact, when you give me the price of Corsair right now for a Lakers game, use an NFL player's number currently right now.

Don't tell me the number. Just give me an NFL player player jersey number for better contact. Cause I don't want to hit a price. Cause it's going to be mad. Don't piss me off. First of all, they got, they got Luca and LeBron. So the tickets are already going to be high as giraffe hoo-hawk to begin with.

Now, think about when his first game, he played Dallas. Now it's his old team. Everybody wanted to see that. Okay. Okay. Think about when his first game he played Dallas. Now, it's his old team. Yeah. Everybody want to see that. So, probably you're probably looking at about closer you go to center court, the more expensive the tickets, you probably was

looking at about Twenty-five probably 25 ticket for center I'm going to go to the playoffs. Twenty-five probably 25 tickets for center court. Okay. Okay. I thought I thought I've been now you go to the playoffs honestly. I thought I've been worse than that. Okay. Okay. But uh uh

twenty-five but uh uh come playoff time you're dealing with the Lakers. I mean, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm

not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm

not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm

not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm

not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going you get everything. I mean, you all the food free but consider what you paid for that ticket. You don't ask. Yeah, cuz I'll have season tickets and you made me miss all my games.

Wait, how did I make you miss all your games? You can just start a nightcap with you. I that that you started nightcap. Listen, I started nightcap, but what you could have done is, is we could have been a part of a consistent routine of going to the legging game, sitting courtside. You could have sat there and taught me, you know,

the intricacies of the game. How am I going to sit courtside and we coming on after the game? What are you talking about? I know Jenny Bush, she was the game, it was a private room in the back. We'm coming on after I don't want to do that kind of money We can get to the same same place from point a to point B on another airline I'll be something about something you know cuz you you told me I want to join myself. Let me oh So now you didn't did it 180 yeah, I'm about to say myself so now I got a save I like it. I like you. I like I like the growth Now if we can get the growth in other areas and other facets of your life, we're going to be alright.

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the the the the with his injury history. Oh see you know what that now that part now when you say that it made it makes every part everybody pause it makes everybody think you take away his injury history okay okay let's say you take away his injury history let's talk about what Lamilla Ball does and gives you when he's on the court he's lights out huh he's box office he's one of those individuals you

know what with the tickets $800 you know, I don't mind paying $800 because I know Lamilla Ball is on my team. He's on our team. I know what I get when I'm coming to watch him. I'm gonna get my money's worth. Now, once you factor in his injury history and what happens when he's out time to time, ah, you know, now you perceive a caution to the wind. Now that's the bad thing, but listen, anybody can get hurt. It happens, it's a game of basketball. It's not that much of a violent sport as football,

but it's very physical. Injuries are gonna happen. Especially in, you know, Lamello's small, huh? I mean, he's what, six, seven, six, eight? Really thin frame, his ankles are fragile. I mean, he might have to go through that with Steph. Remember, Steph was the same way. Steph stayed injured.

That's why he got that little man contract, and then he just was able to stay healthy. That might be a situation, he might need to reach out to Steph. It's like, Steph, man, how did you, like these ankle injuries, how did you like these ankle injuries? How did you eventually get over it? Because man, there ain't nothing to play with.

You're talking to a guy that had ankle injury from hell. I thought I was going to have to retire at 26. Man, my stuff was bad, old Joe. You talking about step on somebody's ankle? I could literally step on somebody's ankle and it would blow up like a catalog. That big? And the worst part was doing it on the road, because guess what?

I got to get on a plane and fly back home. You know what happened when you get in the air with that pressure? Swole right up. You know, I wore those stockings. You know, I put those on both those those stockings. You know, I put those on both my legs to keep the swelling down because I swole a lot. Huh? The white

ones. You know those white ones. You know those those nursing stockings. I know you somebody. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That ain't no thing though. Ochoband because man, look here. I get on that play, man. My my

knees and ankles swell up. Yeah. Cuz I remember I was in up and uh in Baltimore my last year Ocho I got my knee drained every week. Oh wait a minute. Every week? Every week? You drained the needle? Pull out? The first time I got the first time I got both of them drain Ocho they got about 130 CCs off both ankles I mean both knees. 130 CCs is? How did you even practice with that moving around? That was the thing they gave me the off I take get the I get my knees drained about three hours before the off. I get my knees drained about three hours before the game.

I would ice it, try to keep the swelling down. Then they would put hot packs on it so I get some mobility in there. But I was probably getting 30, 40 CCs drawn again. Man, but you know what, let me, listen, I thank God for being able to play for a long time with no injuries, you know, for as long as I played and as reckless as I played,

I got hit really clean one good time. One clean hit in 11, 12 years, outside of that, everything was basically normal. Like, man, listen to some of your dangerous in your passion. I get something done, they're like, I don't know, I think if I shoot it up, could I be able to play? Shoot it up.

Shoot it up. Both shoulders, bad. I separated both shoulders. Man, they put about three, four shots in, they put two shots in this with two shots in that one. Man, I was doing jumping jacks. Ah, ah. Ah.

Wait a minute. How you separate both shoulders? Rest your soul, Dave Durson. I caught a seven route. Safety, you had to be safety. With the Bears, he went to Chitubo with the Bears. He was with the Cardinals at the time. So he landed on me. Crack. I hit the Bears. He went to Chitubo with the Bears. He was with the Cardinals at the time. So

he landed on me. Crack! I hit the ground. Crack! He landed on top of me. Crack! Wait, so you did both shows at the same time? For God's sake! Bet I'll like this. Hey, the whole week. Hey, they put that medicine in there. Yeah. And he was good. Did you? Did you wear the horn? So we played, we played the Raiders and I'm

feeling good. I feel good. Man, we were at a toss crack. We had a forest crack and it was Ronnie. It was Ronnie. It might've been Ronnie. I push up the corner, the corner retreat. Here comes the safety. Right.

Man, I hit that joke. I forget, Ocho, I forgot. Cause you know normally if you got something hurt, you hit it with the opposite one. Well, both of my messed up. So I just say, hey. So I just say it is what it is. Wow.

Right. Ocho tears just start coming down my face. Ah. Ooh boy, that thing. Ocho, I don't know if you ever had that pain, but it feel like electricity go in your face. Oh, I don't know if you ever had that pain but it feels like electricity go through your

body. Oh yeah. Yeah. I know. Just like a pinched nerve. That pinched nerve. That pinched nerve feeling. You know what I think like this here. That's a Greek. I'm done. Yes. After that, if you're done, man, he's not all that

metal out of them shoulders. Hell yeah. I was done after that bad. So, so I understand having to deal with injury history for two years straight. I shot up my ankle every week. Sometimes I had to shoot up both of them. It's gotten so bad.

Ask anybody that was in there. The skin started to come off my ankles. From getting it shot up so much? It had completely just colored. It's like I had Villalago. It was like as dark as I am, and it was just like pure yellow. Pure, I'm talking about like white. That's funny, people, you talk about stuff like this, and everybody look at the glitz and glamor when it comes to athletes, and then you sit down, you able to do it. That's that's funny. People, you you talk about

stuff like this and everybody look at the glistening glamour when it comes to athletes and then you sit down and you're able to hear stories like this. Oh yeah. Sacrifices and the things that we do it all over the years. It's broke down as I

am. I do it all over again. I'll take my black ass right back out there. No way. I'm going to dress. Yeah. Absolutely not. That's that's a oh you look if you play this game long enough there gonna be times that you like man I don't know how on Sunday or Monday Tuesday I was like man I ain't no way in hell I'm gonna be able to play Greek Greek Greek and test would always like a sharp just just think positive. Hey we got we don't have to play today if we had to play today you probably wouldn't be able to go but let's say you see how you feel long go what tomorrow?

Let's see how you feel on Thursday. Let's see. Yeah, they kept that positive. I was like, hey Sharpie, how you feel man? I feel better. I think I'm a I might turn the corner Because I wanted to play oh, man, I know look yeah, I ain't got no 20 I ain't no doctor no lawyer where I can have a 25, 30 year career. I got a finite period of time. I'm gonna try to maximize it. And they let me know all, Shannon, you know, you shooting up, blah, blah, long term.

I said, bro, bro, let me worry about that in 30 years. Right now, I need to get out there. I got people depending on me. The Volume. Make some noise for the greatest shooter of all time, Steph Curry. We went live from All-Star Weekend for a new podcast called Goat, Greatest of Their Era.

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