Nightcap - Nightcap Hour 2: Cavs Executive VETOS Courtside Tix for Knicks FANS + Knicks NBA FINALS Ticket PRICES + NBA Awards Voter EXPOSED for Wemby VOTE + Lakers HIRE Rocket Scientist for Assistant GM?

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to the Cavs executives moving Knicks fans from courtside seats, Knicks NBA Finals historic ticket prices, NBA voter exposed for leaving Wemby off 1st Team All NBA and Lakers hire a rocket scientist Subscribe to Nightcap presented by PrizePicks so you don’t miss out on any new drops! Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/NI... 00:00 - Cavs exec called at least 10 Knicks fans with courtside seats04:35 - Knicks NBA Finals ticket prices are already reaching historic levels16:24 - NBA voter exposed for leaving Wemby off 1st team All NBA30:36 - Lakers hire rocket scientist as assistant GM (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to help from Hippocrite Wednesdays on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check this out. At least 10 other Nick fans with court-side seats had been called by the Cavaliers Executive and told they no longer had seats. After those fans were informed, they no longer had court-sized seats, the calves relocated them to a higher section inside the arena for game four. A cavalier spokesman said, playoff court-side seating is governed. by a specific agreement that prohibits resale or transfer of tickets without approval. All courtside ticket holders are required

to comply with terms of a single game playoff agreement. They've been doing, I guarantee you, they've been selling tickets, they sold tickets for the Detroit game, they sold tickets for, who has the Cavaliers play? Or, who the Cavalier to play the first round? Because Detroit played Orlando. Toronto.

Toronto. Yeah. Toronto. I guarantee you. Nah, you ain't been to move me nowhere. Then my seat,

I paid for them come on with it. And I want $100,000, $100,000 million for my ticket back. Damn. Because I was wondering,

I was like, hold on. Now, I know, because I think they had Spike Lee and Timothy Shalame I think they were like in the second or third rolls.

I said, I know Spike. I ain't never seen Spike sit on anything back to court. So I was like, well, Like that was going to change something. Hey, that's what I was saying we're supposed to do in Atlanta, man. Keep their ass up.

It's like a damn home game for the Knicks. Look, the Knicks are like the Cowboys, Joe. They travel. They're going to travel. They're going to take your bills. You know, some teams travel. The Steelers, they travel. Green Bay, they travel.

Some teams just travel. They have fan bases because, at one point in time, they were really, really good. And so guess what? Those grandparents, the kids became fans. And their kids' kids became fans. So when they got grown, Ocho and Joe, it moved out on their own. They're still fans of the Packers.

They're still fans of the Steelers, of the Cowboys. Same thing with the Knicks. So that's why it's really so hard to get teams because unless your team start winning, now the Patriots, now think about all the kids. that was born in the 2000. From 2000 to 2019, Ocho, all they know is winning. Winnie, yeah.

So guess what? Those kids, kids, Patriots fans, because that's what you got with the Steelers. Because if the Steelers in the 70s, all they did was win. The Cowboys, they won. And so guess what?

And when they moved and spread out, oh, the Steelers coming to town, the Packers coming to town, the Cowboys coming to town, let's go. They still out the bill Same thing with the Knicks Same thing with the Lakers

You gotta realize I mean think about it That's how the Lakers are Oh yeah Everybody The Showtime Lakers That's all they win They went to nine championships

They went to nine NBA finals In a 12 year period They were good in the 60s They lost eight straight times To the Celtics But they were good It's The next NBA final ticket prices are already reaching historic levels.

Games three and four Madison Square Garden have now the most expensive NBA finals tickets ever recorded. The current get-in price is $3,745. The get-in, you way up there. Game four is $3,464. To get in, you're going to be way up there. I saw some court-sized tickets. I sent you the thing, Joe, 221,000.

Courtside. Hey. Hold on, Joe. After the Knicks took a 3-0 lead, two tickets for court-sized seats and center court at Madison Square Garden were listed. $595,000.

Somebody going to pay it, too, fellas. absolutely. Do you think about those sweets. Ocho, those sweets be going for a million, million, five, two million. Absolutely. And guess what? They all be sold out, don't they?

Every time. The thing is what the people don't know is that if you got a suite, let's just say the Super Bowl coming to Atlanta, Mercedes Benz, which it will be not this year because it's in SoFi. The year after it's going to be in Mercedes Benz. You got a suite in Mercedes Benz.

The Super Bowl come there, you ain't got that sweet. The NFL take those weeks. That's crazy. So if you want it by your suite that you've been sitting there for every game. Come on, man. Hey, a ticket, a course-side ticket, Joe, basketball game for $500,000. You know the type of disposable income you got to be making to be able to say, you know what, I'm going to go to the game and watch basketball for three.

hours and just here he'll go five out of that it's okay it's gonna be who's who yeah and with the exception of the the celebs you don't know half the people there but the guy that I was sitting to he's like hey man you know you're blah blah blah he said yeah but I took I took the helicopter down from Orange County I landed on you at USC

Uber it over and you know once the game over I'll over over back over getting the helicopter go back It's a different type of paper man I mean obviously some of you know Jimmy I've been and you see Eddie Murphy I mean a lot so a lot of them you know but it's the ones that you're like well who are you hey and what do you do they tell I know what I paid for the ticket they're sitting heavy boy oh yeah oh yeah but it'd be a

it got to be a great feeling to be that kind of fan to be able and to like grow up, that's been my team and to have them go. And to have them, you know, to have your team go and you got the means to go to a game. Hell, like Spike Lee, been a Nick fan for 70s. Jack really was the first people that,

they just started showing at the Laker game. With the Laker games. Yeah, and his son's got to see. Sons look just like it. Son look just like Jack. but and you just pass it down I mean that's why you know a pack of the season tickets

they just pass them down through generation and generation because the waiting list 30, 40,000 people deep whoo. Hey, the Knicks fans been waiting for this for a long time fellas. 27 years. Yeah.

Just to get back there. They've been waiting for this. 27. And think about they hadn't won a championship, what, 73? Damn. They won 169, 70, and then they won again to 73. That was the last time, so we were down there, you know, 50 plus years.

Damn. Joe, how long is the Cowboys won a championship. Spike League will cry like a baby. Spike League will do a documentary. I guarantee you they win the championship Spike. See, he on, he on drop. Yeah, he going to drop something. What's up, man?

How long has been since the Cowboys won? Oh, Joe. No, no, no, no. No, no, I'm saying, no, I'm saying, no, I'm saying. No, no, I'm saying, no, I'm saying, bro. Come on, babe. I'm not trying to talk about that. No, Unk said that they had one since 73 to Knicks,

so I would just hear. That's your favorite team, though. Yeah, man. It's been a while, Ocho. What has been about, what's been about, it's been about 30 years? Yes. Okay. Oh, yeah, y'all about do, Joe.

You're 15. I mean, damn, Joe, you about 14. You remember that? Yeah, I remember. Yeah, Ocho, what y'all? Who? Who was? When last time y'all done something?

We were just... No, I said when the last time I made y'all done something? You didn't hear me, Joe. I said we did y'all do something. I just told you five years ago. Yeah, I'm talking about weep. I mean, five years as opposed to goddamn 30s. But you know, what you mean?

Because y'all got there, they ain't done nothing. Hell, I mean, y'all ain't done nothing either. I'm saying y'all just as close as us. You're talking about because we got there five years, man, by trying y'all that, man. All right, you know what? We'll see this year. We'll see this year.

Huh? I don't think you understand how much we've improved defensively. I'm going to leave the basketball. Our defense is going to be better than y'all. Yeah. Hey, let's take a look at the streets. Let's take a look at the streets in New York right now. Boy, look here.

Hey, I'll have a time, but I can't go to jail. I ain't going to lie, you out. I can't go to jail now. There's plenty of people going to jail tonight. Hey, hey, I'm standing on something to say, son, get down. I'm going to hop down. Yeah. You got to tell me twice.

Hell, no. I can't go to jail. Hey, you know, those going to jail, they're not even tripping. They're not, they're not even tripping. Damn. Long as long as they out before. bro, listen, listen, listen. They'll be out the morning.

They probably get the, that's probably good. Hey, listen, we talk about if the Knicks, you know, make it to the finals, we kind of, we kind of expected this. Imagine them winning, bro. I can't even imagine that part. They win. Oh my gosh. Hey.

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Yeah. This is my best friend, Janet. Hey. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip, just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast we're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey With all the snacks and drinks

Sidebar why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer They had a bogo Well then you got it Do you want a white claw or something here? Just take it What are y'all doing? Microphones are you making a rap album? Oh I would Come on Can you put you imagine

I would buy it Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake That sounds delicious Oh you're lucky I'm not a drug ass You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You're lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on.

Listen to soccer moms on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you understand where Jalen Brunson a beat? Do y'all understand the mythical that, I mean, you put it with Jared Jeter. You put it with the great legends. I mean, think about, think about, like you said. Joe, Ocho, they haven't won a championship

in 50 plus years. And Earl to Pearl and Clyde and Willis Reed, those guys are still, and half the people weren't alive when they won. And they're still revered. Can you imagine Jalen Brunson winning a championship? Oh, my. They're going to clown.

They're going to clown. They're going to clown. man. Oh. That's going to be crazy. I mean, it's something about winning a title for a town. They never forget you.

They never forget you. I mean, kids, I mean, I mean, some of these kids, when I go back to Denver, I go back to ball. Oh, Joe, that kid's 20. Born when I won. Somebody told you I was on the team.

I just went to a function. Sunday was a week ago. Man, thank you for breaking that championship. Man, you don't mean, hey, the blah, blah, blah, blah, man. Hey, if you ever in Baltimore, here, take my car. Take you. Take that. Bro, it's an unbelievable feeling.

It's an unbelievable feeling what a championship does for a city. And people love you. Now, and that's why a lot of guys, that's why a lot of guys still live in the city in which they played. Right. And I totally understand me being the recluse that I am that like you know like privacy like a little anonymity, you know, hey, I loaded up the thing like the Beverly Hillbill, but I hated it out of town. But man, it's there ain't no greater feeling to then to be beloved by the city when you play. Now everybody doesn't win a championship and you still can be beloved because all they want to know is that you.

played hard. That's it. That's it. Yep. You played hard. Man, they Nick's by them Joe's going crazy, man.

It's going to be ugly. Ooh. That's going to be, hey. That's crazy. Boy, the Knicks party like in 1999. Well, I do, hey, Joe,

hey, how, Joe, I mean, hell, you was. How were you in 99, Joe? I was a senior high school. Yeah, I graduated 99. Yeah, see, you all done nothing by that. So I would parted like I was 1999.

You were going hard to pay the 99. I was dreaming when I wrote this, Prince said, I was dreaming what I wrote this. Forgive me if I'm going straight. Hey, they said the world would go in. That's what they said in on show. Yeah. So, and the famous words of the Joker,

go, go with a smile. Go with a smile. It ain't nothing happened. I was scared. People spent all that buddy. Oh, we ain't never had no zeros on the calendar. And they don't know that the computer's going to malfunction. They spent all that money.

And guess what? The sun went down and we got up and our black ass went to work. Yep. Doesn't happen. Hey, they had a damn thing happened. But they have a food. Oh, yeah. Check this out. We found out the dumb dumb that left Wemby off the first team all-N-B-A.

Here's Justin Termine's explanation. Bear with us, chat. It's two minutes long, but we needed you to hear his full explanation. First, let me say this. I voted for Wembenyama, third for MVP, and I actually think he's a better player than SGA. I think he is the best player in the world right now, but I thought Yokic had a better regular season at the same position. But I absolutely love this kid. I think he has a chance to be the best player of all time, to be the best defensive player of all time. I love his attitude. I love his game. I love how he shows emotion. I love how he handles the media. I love how he shows disdain for his opponents. I'm a massive fan of Victor Wembenyama. But this year he was the second best center,

and I vote by position. Now here is the explanation as to why I vote by position. In my opinion, it is unfair historically to those that came before us, who I have great respect for, that those guys at center were not allowed to be on the first team at the same time. Right? So it's unfair to Wilton Russell and all the other guys who couldn't make first team at the same time just because somebody played the same position as them. They just changed the rule recently because, you know, basically Embed had been the second best player for a couple of years, but he had to keep making second team. teams because Yokic was better. But in my opinion, that's not fair to the centers of the past who

got screwed. So how's that fair to Wilton Russell that they didn't make first team all NBA every single year of their career. They had to basically go back and forth trading it off because they both played the center position. Whereas nowadays, they would just both make first team like everybody else just voted for Yokic and Wembeyanama first team all NBA. So to me, it's unfair that guys today should get to make it because the rules have changed. So I vote by position in order to protect the older generation and the history of the sport. If you don't think that's logical, I don't know what to tell you. How is he protecting the history of the sport? Because in the years past, you voted a point guard, a shooting guard, a small forward, a power for a

in the center. Yeah. They changed the rule. They said you vote for the five best players. Ocho, Joe, what did they do now? Joe, how did they pick the All-Star game? They picked the best players. It ain't no, well, we got to take a center.

We got to take a power for it. We got to, under his, under his logic, the speed limit, they changed the speed limit. The speed limit used to be 55. So under his logic, how is it fair that somebody got to tell? ticket at Jordan going 60 and now the speed limit is 70, but they get to skate. Dumbed up. That's why they changed the rules because they said, look, there are better players. If they said if we got five players that are better, we're going to have five centers.

If we got five point guards, we got five twos, whatever happens, it is so logic. It's so illogical for him to say, I'm trying to protect the sanctity of the game. No, you're not. All you did was ruin a moment. for a kid. Yeah. I just man out of his damn mind. Hey, trying to overthink, trying to analyze.

Try, and. Yeah, he got a point. Unfortunately, the point is on top of his head. Right. Hey, Uncle Joe, when trying to be too intelligent, going to be too smart goes wrong. Just doing too damn much. Yes.

The objective is, is that that's how, think about it. That's how you get. guy don't look at all what did they have so under his lot all the all the other guys you got got two bigs and three point guards that is why they changed it joe they got tired of saying you know what we're leaving some good players off there's some players making it that's not as good as the guy that's on the second team right in order to make it fair because we want the best guys they said we're going to change the rules this wasn't just this year I can see if they say

This has been the way it's been done for like the last two or three years, if I'm not mistaken. Chad, correct me from wrong. It's the same thing when somebody left Griffey Jr. off of his ballot and they ended up losing their right to vote. Griffith should have been the first unanimous player into the hall. But it was Mariano. And I love, hey, Mo, hey, earned it.

He was the greatest closer, big time player, come up in big moments. But see, this is what I'm talking about, Joe. And this is why guys get upset at voters. because they do too much. The same guy that took that one vote away from Shaq, that same guy that took that one vote away from LeBron. This is the same guy. Let me talk.

Man, ain't nobody talking about no damn Chamberlain and Russell. Do you understand how long Chamberl and Russell that was in the 60s? You weren't alive. Why are you trying to hold on to something that you don't know nothing about? Wait, this is the same person? No, he's saying because back in the 60s, you had to vote one. So Russell and Chamberlain kept knocking each other off the ballot. So it wouldn't be fair for those guys not to make it one year.

And the other one guy was first team, the other guy was second team. And when they get an opportunity to make it. No, I was asking you, the individuals that messed it up for Shaq, the individual that messed up for LeBron, is this the same person? No. No. Oh, okay, okay, okay. No. It's crazy.

I mean, and he thought he gave a valid explanation. Rules change. When the rules change, I grew up. You know, Joe, when I grew up, you know what the drinking age was? 18. 18 years, though, you can go in the store and buy liquor. Damn.

You can go buy cigarettes. As a matter of fact, you went to the right place. You'd be fault-tated by everything, but that's not the here or no there. But I'm saying legally at 18. Right. They changed the rules. These mothers against drug drivers.

I mean, kids, kids were getting drunk and we know. And they changed it. They said it's 21 now. Yeah. This man talk about a rule that they changed two to three years ago, and he's going back to the 60s. Mm. Analytics took over, bro.

They took over, huh? I don't get it I don't get it Joe and his and the thing was he knew the rules he said they changed the rule

Joe it's not like he said well you know what I voted I didn't know that I could vote when I could vote two centers or three centers or whatever the case may be he knew the rules

yeah it's hard for me to believe he didn't know he knew he didn't think it was fair Fair is where you ride the fair's wheel and get cotton candy. They judge pigs at a fair. They judge goats at a fair.

There's a bearded lady in the tent at the fair. Give a person what he or she deserves. Not what is fair. Damn. So because of him, Wimby won unanimous. Wimby got $4.99. You needed $500. So Shea and Yokic were unanimous.

And basically you can't put two centers on it on the... You can. You can put five centers on there. You can put five points guards. You can put five three. He's going off his scale, meaning like he's saying... He's going off of history. Where before you...

It's kind of like the All-Star game, Joe. Remember the All-Star game, you had to take a point, a two, a three, a four, and a five. Now you just take whatever It's different now, bro I love how people are talking about it's not a big deal It's not a big deal to you Because you weren't the one that was not Something was touching away from

See, I love how people and things don't impact You know what it's like Joe When you have when somebody have surgery Oh he had a minor surgery You know this minor surgery is always on someone else But you have major surgery Yeah You got an ingrown toenail.

Oh, man, I had surgery. Man, you had an ingrown toenail. Now, man, he had earned that. He didn't deserve it. He earned it based on his play. And then you see what he did? Oh, Joe, did you hear what he tried to do? I voted him for third in the MVP.

I voted him to the principal player a year. All trying to justify. See, I ain't got no action to grind with him. Nobody asked you all that. All they ask you to say, why did you leave him off knowing the rules? with what they were trying to be too smart. That's meant to the only person I want to be the oddball.

It's it's a I mean think about it in the history of the game. Steph Curry is the only unanimous MVP not wilt not Russell not bird not magic not careen not Shaq not LeBron not Kobe, not Yokic, not Steph Curry. You don't think that matters? He doesn't matter. Absolutely.

For the longest time, we've only, I mean, Brady was the first unanimous MVP. Then Lamar and Lamar liked the one of the game. He might have did win it unanimously. I think he might have been a vote short. He might have been a two-time unanimous MVP. But he and Brady are the only two

that's ever won a unanimous MVP. This is crazy, man. Guys, you're overthinking it. It's not that complicated. They say you put the five bests on there. That's what they say. That's the rules. They change the rules.

They're going to find a way to complicate it. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. All I say is Wembe, just come back in there here. You try to improve and try to get it. Say he's coming back what? I say just try to come back and improve and leave no doubt.

Hell, he ain't leading no doubt this year. He didn't, but I'm just saying, ain't nothing we can do about it now, Ocho. It's kind of like Asia Wilson. Asia felt she should have won the MVP, the year Stewie got it. I said, I got something for y'all asked. Guess what?

Back-to-back MVP's. Take this one. The only player, they ever score 1,000 points in the season in WMBA history. You say, you know what, I'm going back it up again, lead the league and score. As a matter of fact, and y'all robbed me one time

for the defensive player to year, I'm going to come get it again. And I'm gonna get the animal eight I'm taking sweet stakes I'm getting all I'm winning a championship I'm getting the MVP I'm getting defensive player the year and I'm getting final of MVP now run tailed at I like it come in now I'm rooting for women that would be go right guy and I'm I'm a I'm a yoke at your Luca fair new kid in town But now I got a root for win because I want him to get unanimous.

It's a new kid. Hey, it's a new kid on the block, bro. Y'all got to get with the program. Yes. But guys, I understand the history of all sports. I really do. But if they change the rule, oh, Joe, they changed the rules in baseball. A guy can challenge a strike now.

You couldn't challenge a strike before. So now what? Because the guy challenged a strike and he gets it, you're going to look at it. them differently? They used to didn't have replays. I think as the game evolves and they implement changes to the game, you have to evolve with it.

You can't stay in that antiquated way. Absolutely. It's the same thing, Joe, with a woman. You remember how your mom and your dad and how they did things, that's not the way it is now. No. You can't think that way. You're going to sit yourself up for fear. Yep, every time.

And disappointment. If somebody is willing to do things that your mom or your grandma or your great grandma or your auntie did for their husband, for their son. Right. Bless your heart. You're lucky. But if they don't, that's, there's no thing. Time changed.

They evolved. And you have to evolve with them. Absolutely. Damn, Wembe. I feel bad for Wemby. The Wem, the Lakers reportedly have a new assistant general manager who is literally, I mean, he's literally a rocket scientist. As head of the important offseason, as they head into the important offseason, Lakers hired New Orleans Pelicans vice president of strategy and operations Rohan Ramadas to be the assistant GM.

Ramadas will be under team president Rob Polinka in his new role. ahead of the 2024 season, the Pelicans announced they elevated Ramadan to Senior Director of Analytics and Innovation after he spent seven years as an analytics consultant for the team. He was also the draft analyst for the Miami Heat during the 2016-17 campaign, according to the Pelican's announcement, spent five, spent the past 12 years supporting aerospace corporations, U.S. Space Force, and NASA as a rocket, guidance, navigation, control, and missions design engineer. One Pelicans, the source told Dave McMinneman and Shams, he's literally a rocket scientist, and he used AI and coded models to help the New Orleans front office.

Help him what? Are they trying to put somebody in space? What does they have to do? What does they have to do at winning and playing basketball? Well, hey, maybe they're trying to put, Maybe they're trying to go up in space. Joe, what is this? Man, I have no clue.

Joe, that's your fault. How does my fault, Joe? I don't know, Joe. I got a head. I need somebody to blame. So I'm just blame you. We try to win games over here. They're bringing in someone.

I'm saying, he must have done a good job for New Orleans bringing in players or something. Why did the Lakers hire? Do you see the players in that way? That's what I'm asking. That's what I'm asking. I'm like, damn, what he did he do? dude for me to be like, I'm happy for the Lakers. I don't know.

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But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers was...

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, Hey Jonas. And then I wrote down

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It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast, Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows, without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball.

Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcasts presents Soccer Moms. So I'm Leanne. Yeah. This is my best friend Janet. Hey.

And we have been joined at the Hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips. Wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drinks.

Sidebar. Why did you get hard? seltzer instead of beer. They had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white color or something here? Just hit it.

What are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you move? I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot

knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You are. I'm not an alcoholic. You are. You are.

I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I guess he's smart. I mean, if they try to, look, if they try to put people in space, that's the guy I would call.

But as a basketball, what is your eyes tell? That's what I'm saying, bro. What does your eyes tell you? How does he fit what you're trying to do? Hey, normally, when they make changes like this, you know, they bring in assistant GM helping all this. I mean, it's going to something, it's going to be some furniture moving.

It's going to be, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they base everything on analytics. Look here, I'm going to say, hey, Sam Preston. I'm stealing somebody for, you know what? I'm stealing somebody from OKC. I'm stealing somebody from San Antonio.

Because they seem to get it right. Yeah. Hey, at least copy what they do. Copy what they do. What is... Hell. Hey, Joe, and you look at the NFL, right? Every owner should be trying to copy

Howie Roseman and Jeffrey Lurie in the way they operate. Everybody. But when they go get coaches, where they go get them coaches from? The Kyle Shanahan tree, the Mike Shanahan tree, from Sean McVeigh. They get them from a Matler floor. They get them from Andy Reed. Why?

Because those guys have... success. Hold on. Will the Pelicans last in the playoffs? Where were the Pelicans last in the chip, in the finals? That's what I'm saying. I'm confused.

That must have been his partner or something, man. I ain't got no problem. I ain't got no look. I think the thing is sometimes, like when you run a business, you own a business and, you know, you get people that you're comfortable with. People lie now, Ocho Joe. The way people lie on their resume now with this damn AI. They chat GPT?

Oh my goodness, Ocho. But you know they're gonna do a background check. It's hard to lie on the resume. No, it's not because that's your resume. How they're gonna do a background check? You might have graduated, but you ain't do none of the stuff that you said.

Yeah. But you know, Uncle, you got to put it down the reference, huh? Ocho. Yes, I'm asked your question. If somebody called and said, man, Ocho, Ocho said he was with clubs, he was with nightcare for 10 years. Man, Ocho was great. Man, you might have been a jerk.

Man, Ocho was unbelievable. always on time. He ain't never late. The one thing Ochoa will do, he's going to work hard now. He'll get everything that he got. He's entertaining. See?

Yeah. Yeah. See, I did that, though? Hey, would I leave? I ain't going to say nothing bad about you. You don't say nothing bad about me. We're going to move it. Right.

I'm just trying to figure out what does a rocket scientist have to do with basketball? Man, listen, when you look over there on them, on them benches, it's more assistant coaches and damn analytical people sitting over there than it's ever been, ever in the history of the game.

It's damn them, it's more coaches, damn there than players now. I'm talking about, look at the first two roles by the head coaching right behind them. Yes. Bro, it's so many coaches now today. You're right, Joe. You're right. You're absolutely right.

Well, look, I don't know what he has to do, but the Lakers have done a terrible job of drafting players. or so, hell, I guess you try anything. Think about it. The best player they've gotten in the last probably decade is an undrafted free agent. Austin Reeves. Yeah.

Let that sink in for just a second. Just for a second, chat. Let that sink in. The best player that the let, if they didn't draft him, is Austin Reeves. No question. No question.

Damn, Lakers. Well, you know what. You got think pot. Think positive. I'm thinking about where LeBron going. He may just end up staying L.A. bruh, because I'm going to have to move my Laker jersey. I have to move my Laker jersees.

You know, he ain't going to... They can't be... He ain't going to tell nobody when he's going to bust no mood. You're just going to have to see him busing it. Hey, you're going to find out, like, everybody's going to find it the same time. Yeah. That's one thing.

Oh, my goodness. Lakers, what are you... done. James Hardin was asked after the game on if the Knicks are better than the calves. It was 4-0, but I don't think we had a chance as far as our best shot. Genuinely, I do feel like we are a better team series-wise. We didn't show it. Wait, he said, wait, they lost 4-0.

They got swept, but they still feel like they were the better team series-wise, even though you lost said series. He said like his damn head coach. I would all they analytical oh man so the analytics said you were better but you still got swept it's bad

so analytics analytics is messing up basketball damn young analytics is messing up sports because it doesn't take it it doesn't take into consideration momentum

momentum all it does is you punch it in numbers well what about the momentum of the game. What coaches used to coach your gut? Now, the analytics say we should go for it. Analytics say we should punt it. Analytics say we should...

Analytics say we should shoot more threes than two. What? If they had lost one game, you know what, Joe? Ocho, if the series was that first game, maybe I would probably believe James Hardin. I'd say, you know what, they were. had a little slip up, things happen.

But when you get beat like this, every game, after game won, how can you even fix your mouth to say that you think, that you think, you can't lose by 37 points. Ain't no way you can lose by 37 points

and think you're a better team. Ain't no way you can lose in the manner in which they lost the other day and think you a better team. There's no way in hell that you think you can get blown out and game. None of the games were even close, Joe, after the game one. They ended up losing game one by double-dict. Game one was so, it was too demoralizing, man.

I'm telling you, it knocked them. Listen, it rattled them, and they never were the same, bro. Like, they hadn't been close to none of the damn games ever since. Sometimes you just got to be honest, nah. We just ain't that damn good. We ain't got enough. I like to think we're better, but at the end of the day, you are what your record says.

Our record says 0 and 4 in the Eastern Conference finals. That's what we are. Yeah. And if there is a very, very, very rare occasion in which a team will lose, win a series and not be the better team. Oh, Joe, how can I, Joe, how can I be lucky four times? I'm not fin to hit no three, two game winning shots. So even if I hit those game winning shots, what happened to other two games?

I beat you. These games weren't club. I can see if they were, you know, nip and tug, a game here or there. What 37 point shot you got? If they say, okay, you guys hit five shots in a row from half court. You guys win game four. James Hardin now has played 191 playoffs games without a championship, which is two behind Carl Malone for the most in NBA history.

Those two players are tied. for the most playoff wins, 98 without a title. Mike Brown is back in the NBA finals for the first time since 2007. The 19-year gap is the longest by a coach in league history. His 11-game playoff win streak is also the longest by a head coach in its first season with a new team.

Shout out Mike Brown, bro. Yeah, man. Perfect, perfect situation. Yep, yep. Hey, he inherited a team that they just came off with them Eastern Conference. Yeah. Finals lost. And for him to be able to get them back there and get him to the finals,

Mike Brown, he's going to be, hey, he's going to be stamped in New York, too. Oh, yeah, Lord. Absolutely. And I think the thing is, the thing is that what he didn't do that Tives did, he rolled him into the ground. He grinds them down to the nub. They got the guys playing 40 and 42 minutes in the regular season. And then when they get to the postseason, they're out of game.

And I think Mike Brown understood it, space and pace, you know, using Kat to be the passer, to initiate the offense, and letting Brunson be more of like an AI guy. You know, I think he got it right with this one. They got a good thing going. What's up? You don't know what? What's you saying? What's wrong?

What's going on? The calves and that performance that they put on. That was bad. Yeah, we can't, hey, now we just, now we, they should have, they should have just let, what you call? They should let, uh, uh, uh, uh, Detroit. I think Detroit the game a better series than that. The problem, the, the, the problem with Detroit,

we know defensively they would have been there. It's just they ain't got enough damn firepower neither. The score. Keep up with the Knicks. But I think, I personally think it probably, it would have been a better series. due to the defense that they can, you know, at the level they can defend. They ain't from getting to get walked over.

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