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Episode Date: July 16, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Tracy McGrady saying Giannis can’t be the Heat A1, which sports media personality has to go, DeMarcus Cousins on LeBron’s free agency journey and 76ers Big 3 have reached out to LeBron 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... 14:40 - Tracy McGrady insists Giannis cant be the Heat’s 1A26:35 - Which sports media personality has to go?29:04 - DeMarcus Cousins speaks on LeBron’s free agency46:00 - The 76ers Big 3 have been in contact with LeBron (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #ClubSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know, I sit on my hand for a little while. Yes. And then I throw and, you know, just, you know, I don't do no touch it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I just want to prepare. I want to prepare so I can put that $5,000 to the side ahead of time. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've been saving up.

I've been saving up. Okay. I might sneak a little extra in there for y'all, you know. Okay, okay, okay. I appreciate that. Hey, depending on if you're doing a good job, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, if you do it a real good job and you look a certain way, hello, there's a good chance you might get the better portion of half of what I got. Yeah, yeah, probably, hey, she probably whisper a few sweet nons in your ears. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. You know, where you live? You're in Houston now. I just got a place. I just closed on an apartment.

Hey, Joe, hey, Joe, you've been here in 29 before, Joe? No, I ain't never been, Joe. Hey, listen, hey, baby, I'm telling you how I ain't trying to get myself in no trouble. I, baby, I apologize. Joe, let me tell you something, Joe. We go, talk to them. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't in there twice, you hear me? Yeah.

One time I did a show in there a long time ago. He did. And then the previous time, I just went, you know, for, for, for, on birthday, right? Yeah. Joe, they look a certain way in there, Joe, where at times I want to walk up the people and be like, listen, why are you here doing this? Yes. Yes.

Yes. Hey, Joe. Like, why in here doing this? Oh, Joe. She bad, hey, she bad to you. Joe. Huh? Hey, Joe, man.

Why? What, Joe? She bad to you. Man, Joe. And he was. And it's so funny. It's so funny to be able to see it. But then I get a better understanding of, well, hell, I got that right at home.

Yeah. I had a. I got there right at home, but still, like, why are you in this? Yeah. Yeah. I had a home girl. I had a home girl. She went to the rival high school.

She still, she heard I still good friends right now. We still talk all the stuff right now. She was at a club and she, in a Dallas. Dude walked in. Say, what you doing? She said, what it looked like I'm doing? I'm dancing. She said, come go with me.

He's like, no, he's like, no. He said, you think I'm a dumb dumb. She said, you know how many times how many men? He said, I'm going to change your life. Mm. She went out of stuff. Bought a 26-carried diamond. They still married to this day.

Get out of here. Yes. My home girl. My home girl. Now, she went to arrive of high school. I went to another high school. But as a matter of fact, Magic City. I was like, I remember how many there?

like, damn, that girl looked familiar. But I had never seen her naked. So, but I'm saying her face looked for me and it's dark and I'm looking at it. I'm like, I say, excuse me, what's your name? She said, She said, Shella, you know my damn name. I said, I thought so. She gave me, I said, how you'll give me a hug

and you dance? She said, damn me people, you're my own boy. So we've been in touch, as a matter of fact, When I was in LA, she would come. She brought her and a two boys would come. Yeah. We meet, I meet her out. I met a husband, great.

Anytime, if I'm ever in Dallas and I call us, hey, Trace, I need, hey, do me a favor. Drop your car at the hotel. I need something to drive around here. A Bentley, a Rose, Mercedes, whatever, gonna be parked in front of the hotel. Mm. That's live, that's dope.

So this notion about this pretty woman, oh, it exists. Oh, yeah. It absolutely exists. Because I know first, and I ain't telling what somebody told me. I'm telling what I know. Hello. Hey, it doesn't happen. 26.

Yeah. And got, I bet if she got, hey, hold on. If she got one Berkin, she got 22. Hmm. Hey, those, hey, those happy in their stories like that, Joe. It don't happen often, but it does. happen yeah it had it do happen okay so oh my goodness because you got to have unbelievable disposable income to pull that off yeah because they they used to

fast money bro they got to have disposable income yeah you don't want them problem you're right okay got a lot of yeah I won't no oh oh oh hey but y'all you saying you saying that's what's in Houston the type to make you walk in there and be like hey girl do you know you know what? You ain't got no bills for the next year. No car, no, no apartment, no, no car. Oh, oh, you want to come live a lifestyle of the rich and famous. Champagne, riches, and caviar drains.

I'm your host, Robin Lake. Before it down, uncle, you? Yeah. Ocho, I don't got out of business. You know, I ain't. Mama say, look here, we ain't doing that. Yeah, so I like, you know, I'll sit back. But I got me, hey, I got to.

Yeah, I got to sell some sneakers. I got to go up in there, hey, we got to stack it. Hey, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what, listen. I, hey, honey, listen, I can't help you for you. I got you the month of August. Yeah. Yeah, August, that's about all I can do. That's all you can do.

August, I got you. August, I got you. That's it. August? Yeah, I can't do no longer. God, dang, oh, Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't do no longer than that.

Hey, she's going to have to keep her job then, ain't she on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta be doing something. Yeah, I'm saying, but she used to that fast money, she's the month of August ain't gonna do nothing for her. That's all right, I ain't gonna be able to do nothing for it too, after August. September, you're on, September, you're on your own.

Yo, yo. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey, man, drop her name. I ain't been putting up putting her business out there in the street like that. But you know I got a home girl. Yeah. And she used to, she had a home girl, you know, you know.

Hey, they say Texas. I'd never thought, because I didn't never think, because, you know what I'm saying? You're from rural South Georgia. You're like, uh, go and behold. Huh? Chat, chat say, uh, them Texas women lit. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Houston. Like I said, hey, I don't, I don't, I don't, look. in my day once upon a time in my I say from probably about 23

yeah to about 304 yeah you live why you was a live wire uh you was a live I had a dollar

I had a dollar in dimes I believe it at that Joe I had a dollar in dimes Hey I like that one I like that one that's a good one yeah yeah

bad a dollar and dimes I like that man but but i but i get what coo's saying coos is exactly right yes bro once you get to a certain level you don't have to it it's normally people that's spending that don't really have it that's trying to impress people yeah you look at some of them guys and they got on they got on a 25 dollar casios we all go through that phase i went through the phase like hey trying to impress it and buying this and buying that i was like like man

Man look here. Whatever. Man, man, please. Whatever. Them days over, fellas. They over. Long, long gone, Joe.

Long gone. Now I'm trying to, now I'm just trying to see how much I can, how much I can lead the kid. Yeah, just trying to stack it up. But they're not going to get it at one time. That thing's going to be in the trust

because I don't trust them. Hey, y'all making that money, y'all making that money that don't fold. You know what I'm on my? Hmm. Yeah. Hey, I don't, hey, I got to. And if you,

If you think, hey, and if you think, man, one of my kids, you're going to get the money? Nope. It ain't. You're not. You ain't going to be able to get nothing. I don't know. Maybe they let you get their, they four one K pension,

but you ain't going to touch nothing sharing the Sharms money. Yeah. Yeah. If we get them boys think about ROI, yeah. Are you getting a return on your investment? Yep. I ain't talking about no Birkins.

I ain't talk about no Chanel and. clothes and all in jury and all that that ain't man that that ain't about nothing that just throwing money away yeah are you gonna get are you getting the return on everything you spending now it's about getting no damn pussy you can get that anywhere for free if you want to yeah no but but i think the thing is cool this tide a guy saying well 200 million is really not 200 million or 100 million is not 100 million it is everybody knows you have to pay taxes But if you make $200 million, if you make $200 million and you're not in the state, let's just say for the sake of argument, you make $200 million and with taxes,

with state and federal taxes and your agent's fees and marketing or whatever else you have, let's just say after all of that and you buy everything you won't, Joe, if you can't live off $70 million a year, that will return you 8 to 10%, 10% on 70 million, that's $70 million, and you never touch the principal. And all it does, it compounds, it grows every seven years. And you haven't touched the principle. If you can't live off that, you're in trouble. I don't know. It doesn't matter. You couldn't have made enough because if you had made 500 million, you'd have been in the same situation. Yeah. I agree. A lot of people think also, Uncle Joe, they think, well, make more money.

I can make more money. But the problem is, if you don't have financial discipline, making my money is not going to fix the issue. Whatever you do make, you still going to spend. Right. Making more money is not the issue. It just makes you spend more of what you got because you make it more. It's a never, it's a never in. I don't know.

At some point in time, you know, hey, get you a watch every two to three years, uh, cars. Most far I used to, I just lease, I lease a car and I'm like, you know what? I kind of like this. I'm a buy it. They change the body style every three years. If you like that car and you know, you want just a different body style.

Yeah. Man, like I said, I bought my car in 2019. This is a 2020. I got 13,125 miles on it. It's about to be seven years old. That may don't go nowhere. No, sir.

I hate driving. Joe, I told you, man, I flew to San Diego from L.A. Man, I drove down there, One time I said, I'd never do this again. The next two times I went, I flew. I go to my grandma's house. I fly.

How long was to drive? I fly to Savannah. I rent a car. I drive to Glenville, which is about 45 minutes. Yeah. Drive back. Or it takes me three hours and say, I ain't driving three hours no more. My days, my days are driving three hours.

That's over. They're driving here. I don't believe I can drive it out. When I was in Cali, you know, you must run to get stuck in traffic. You're trying to go to the valley or you, you know, get, okay, that. Okay. happen. But I'm talking about just go somewhere and traffic is marginal and it's going to take an hour that'll never happen. Never. Oh, we went down to, uh, Jordan and I, we had to go,

where we, uh, Fort Benney and say, uh, we know, we got, uh, we got to escalate. I said, no, you don't. I say, if y'all ain't got no sprinter man, I ain't going. You need, they had a sprinter. Me, Jordan, and the guy driving the sprinter. You need to lay a row, bro. I want to, I want lay down. I say, I am not about to be cramped. I said, first of all, y'all got me, I had a pill. I had everything. I had a pillow. I had a cooler Joe with drinks, with sandwiches. I just, I, I, I, I, I ain't put to tell you no lie, Joe. I just don't got the patient to be in the car like that, man. Me neither, man. I mean, I get, I get ass and flying.

I'm telling you. I mean, we fly, fly from Vegas to L.A. It's only like four, 40 minutes. Yeah. Man, 20 minutes in, I'm jumping. Yeah. Yeah, my limit in the car is three hours, Joe. That's me too, Ocho. I can't, unc, I can't go no more than three. I can't go no more than three, bro. Because I know I can listen to a good album. I can listen to a good album that it gets me through that first hour and 30. Yeah. Now back half of that hour and 30, okay, I'm good. I can. Back of the day, Joe. Oh, boy. Five hour of nothing. Tallahasseh here I come Damn

Telling here I come Orlando Might even go to Kansas City Here I come They got some crazy little women And I'm gonna get me one I take off

Hey hey Ojo We know he'll travel for that Huah now They will Not no more Not no mojo Not no more

It got to be damn The next door now No, sir. I got you. I can't do it. I can't dry. I don't have the patience. You've heard the chaos.

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Tracey McGrady believes Yonis can't be the Heats 1A and insists they need a fourth quarter closer. As great as Janice is, he's still the guy that can't be my 1A. He's a guy that can get through three quarters. You can carry our team. I can't give him the ball in the fourth quarter. The heat need a closer. Joe, do you agree? I think they do need a closer, but it doesn't mean that Janus isn't one A.

Janice is a one, guys. He's a one. He is a guy obviously who can get his own, but I think he is a willing pass at times and he can make guys around them better. It's just like we talk about with the messy thing. Yeah, man, listen, when your best player attracts so much attention, two and three guys, the demand, double and triple team, Ocho, it's other guys got to be open.

And you've done your job. Correct. You know what I'm saying? I've done my job. I attract all of them attention. Boom, I fired the guys who can make shots. I think what T-Magan is saying closing the game out, let's say under two minutes, under a minute. Hell, it's a tie game or we down one.

And this could potentially win the game. Janus isn't the guy who you drawing that up for. Because there's a heat. I believe, let me put on my basketball, my best basketball hat, and try to dive into what, and part what T-Mack is saying. He ain't got no signature move. I can't throw it to him.

And if they file him, there's a great chance he's going to miss the free throw. I need somebody that got a move. And see, when you got a guy, when you have, like, you go look at certain guys. Let's just say a big, a king. He got the dream shake. Yeah.

You need a guy that I can throw him the ball, Joe, and he got Kevin Durant. Yeah. Cameron and the Red is going to get to that left hand and he's going to pull up. He's going to get to that heavy pull up. You already know. And that's the thing about Janus.

Even when you watch him and it's a close game down the stretch, Unkin Ocho, he ain't looking aggressive to score the ball. You know what I'm saying? That's the one time down the stretch where you see Janus, he's looking for a guy like Middleton or Dame, somebody who he can get a ball to and he can kind of get out the way. Yeah, he don't necessarily. you know, I always take the

game winning shot, bro. And I believe that to be because obviously he's not a great mid-range guy. He's not a great three-point shooter. And going to the basket, Uncle Ocho, he don't want to get foul at the end of them damn games. Joe, you remember that game six?

He had a historic game. 50-point close-out game. Yeah. The most of the close-out game. And what was he, like, 14 or 17 from the free throw line? 15 to 17 from the free throw line. but if you think he's going to shoot that kind of percentage, more times than not, you're sadly mistaken. Yeah. You're sadly mistaken.

He's just had an out-of-body experience shooting the ball from the free-throw line that night. Yeah, yeah. And in close ball games, you need somebody that got to move, they can post up, they can get to a midi, and if you file them, that's the thing. They don't knock it down.

You feel comfortable, they're going to knock down seven to ten or eight of ten. The mid-range shot is always available. in the closing moments, Ocho. And you have to be able to take it and make it, you know, understanding of repercussions, whether you're going to miss or make and don't even care about the results for real.

You know what I mean? Like, and Yonis just isn't that, bro. He's not going to take one or two dribbles and shoot a side step pull-up. He ain't doing that down the stretch. You know what I mean? Either he's getting all the way to the basket

or he's trying to find somebody else to make the, to make the shot. So I kind of understand what T-Mack saying, but he is a one, brok. He's going to dominate the damn game all the way probably up until the end. So I guess what, what T-Mag is saying, you got guys like, bam, you know, or you can bring in guys who are known for making big shots and clutch situations. Correct. But I still think Miami got a lot of work to do, man. You know, they got to add some more guys to this puzzle. The shooters. I think they need shooters, though, man. Yeah. Yeah. You got to

have it around them. I mean, listen, Andrew, and Andrew Wiggins is, I mean, He can shoot. Tim Harder, we can shoot, but I think they need one more that they can count on, especially in clutz situations and clutz moments that can be extremely good that you can actually count on the hit shots when you need it the most.

I just think you got to have guys who are great at catching shooting. Because I'm going to tell you, man, I think it's a learning curve playing with Yonis, bro, because he's going to dominate the ball so much because he ain't really great off ball like that, Ocho. No. You know what I mean?

Unless he in the dump. the spot. Yeah, unless he in the dunker spot close to the basket, you drive in there and you dump him on something. Oh, he's great at that, but I'm saying him spotting up playing off ball, unless it's him in the pick and roll setting the pick, you feel what I'm saying? But, yeah, outside of that, man, you got to surround him with guys who can make shots. Joe, I think it's really hard to play with anybody that's not a point guard

that dominates the basketball. Yeah. I could, Magic Johnson would be easy to play with because he's a past first point guard. Yeah. But if you play with LeBron, you play with, Janice, you play with somebody that dominate the ball, Joel and B.

It's hard to play with them. Yeah. It's hard. Now, a lot of times in order to be with them, what do you have to do? I have to alter my game. D. Wade had to alter his game. Because a lot of what he did, LeBron does.

You have to alter. And so it takes a special type of person that you've been playing one way. I've led a team to a championship playing this way. I have a finals MVP playing this way. I'm an all NBA player playing this way. I led the league in scoring playing this way. Now I've got to come in because the best way in order for us to win, the reason why we put this thing together is because we wanted to win championships.

And I've got to be willing to sacrifice. I think D. Wade made it the greatest sacrifice of any other player in NBA history. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He did. That's just, that's me first. Now, you might find somebody who will share what about this guy, but I'm saying personally, I think D Wade,

given what he was at the time he made it, mm-hmm. He was special, man. Yeah. Yeah. He was special. Hey, he also understood. He also understood no ego putting his pride aside,

understanding what they could accomplish by taking that vaccine, allowing Ron to be the number one. Yeah. He understood. Yeah, but it's not easy though, Ocho. It's not easy to do that, man. Because think about you, when you've had success, that's like a receiver and you don't go on,

you don't be a first team all pro, and you don't lead the league in receiving, and yards, and touchdowns, and catch it. I did. I did it. Yeah. I did it because I understood what it could, hey, listen, it ain't turn out.

But you gotta realize when you were, you did that in year nine. Oh yeah. I need you to do that in year four and five. When you just starting to come into your own, yeah, you forget, I remember what you was in 505, 06, 07. You remember them years? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. I got you, I got, I got, I got, I got, I. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you putting 260, you followed up with 190? Yeah, yeah. And you putting up 1,400, you putting up 1,300?

No, 97 catches, 90 catches, yeah. 84 catches. Now they come in and say, well, Ocho, you know what? Hey, we want you to be the two receiver. Oh boy, right here, gonna be the A receiver. Mm. Yeah, yeah, that's not gonna work. That's not going to work.

Yeah. How about you put the job up for, how about you put the job up on the line and whoever the best is coming out of training camp? That's who one is. Yeah, low. But just to move over, and that's what D-Way did.

Right. He knew in order for them to win a championship, he could not play like he had played his first eight years in the league. Yeah, hey, boy. I get him credit. I give him credit for that. Like I said, I think he made the biggest sacrifice of any player

that I can recall in NBA history. I think they all did, honestly, though, OK, Ocho, meaning Chris Bosch did too. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I felt like the only one who didn't really have to sacrifice his game was Braun for real because he was so dominant at the time. You know what I mean?

He still, I mean, he controlled the game pace. I mean, the boy was unreal when he was in Miami. I ain't going to lie to you. He did, hey, that outside of when he went back to Cleveland, okay, Ocho? Yeah. Miami Brown was special. No, I think, no, for me,

2018, Braun, what he did in the postseason, you got to think about it. In that one postseason run, Joe, he had eight 40-point games. When he went back to Cleveland? In just that post-season run, yeah.

He averaged 34, 8, and 8 for the entire post-season. I know, he was, he was different. That's the best broad I've ever seen. Oh, that's crazy. He was different. I saw him in Miami, and he was great. But 17, 18, Brian, when they lost, when KD. first got there,

and he averaged a triple double in the finals. And then he followed that back up to next year with game winner after game winner after game winning the postseason. He hit a game winner against Indiana, and they beat them in seven. And then he hit the game winner against Toronto, kiss off the glass, swept them. The number one seed, swept them. Yeah.

Then he goes and do a demolition job on Celtics. After being down, and a game seven, he could go get, what, 35, 11, and 9. And then he comes out at the first game, 51, 8, and 8. I don't believe, even if they win that game, Joe, I don't believe they beat.

I don't believe in my heart of hearts they beat Golden State. But just to take a game off, what many people believe is one of the two or three greatest teams ever assembled, would have been a huge accomplishment in and of itself. Yeah, it's almost, it's similar to the, to when Philly played the Lakers, an A-I score, their 49 game won, but they won, they won the game.

But you're right, the, the Warriors were so dominant when they got K, when they got KD. Ocho, I'm talking about it, it was borderline cheating, bro. That shit was borderline cheating, man. Yeah. Because you couldn't, as great as KD was, and Iso scoring and catching shooting, you couldn't double his ass.

Not with Clay and Steph. You couldn't double him with Clay and Steph. You couldn't double him. Then here, you couldn't double Steph. You couldn't, it's like you had to, you had to pick your poison, bro. They were picking you, they were picking people apart.

Yeah. They were special. And everybody's shooting at a high percentage because they're getting wide open looks. You double somebody if you want to. I mean, at the time, okay, ultra, they had four all-stars. It's Draymond, Clay, Steph, and Katie.

Come on, man. Splash, brother. And then you put, and Drayman could run pick and roll with any of them. He was a key factor to them winning, honestly. I know Katie, you know, won the MVP, but I'm saying, like, the work that Draymond did, being a facilitator, he was a, he was pivotal. He was pivotal in that. A graphic went viral asking which sports media personality has to go.

So Katie chimed in twice. One has to go. Y'all see it. They're going to keep O'Shea. They're going to keep O'Shea. Who's the one they asked that Katie said to go? Well, he said, he said, packed that lame Colin Cowher heard up. And then the next one he says basketball would actually move forward if Nick,

Nick Wright wasn't involved. So that's the two. Hey. They're going to go at, they're going to go at KD here tomorrow. But, hey, but listen,

this is what KD is known for, bro, speaking his mind. He paying attention. He's speaking to mind. Hey, hey, you think you,

you send a shot at KD or you say it, oh yeah, he's paying attention, partner. Yeah. But you're doing, I really like,

I really love it, man. And we need talk about just no, any player. We talk about, no, no, no,

he's a top 75. In fact that, the top 75 player, he engages with the media. he engages with the fans. It ain't too many of them do that, man. I think LeBron at one point, LeBron used to.

I think he hadn't done in a while. Sometimes he'll get on Twitter, he'll go back and forth, maybe never in a negative light. But he'll sit there and tweet sometimes every blue moon. But Katie, man, he embraces that stuff. And I think that's really, really, really cool, man.

To be a super, superstar and still engage with the fans. That means the world of some of these people. Yeah, yeah. Man, they didn't let me and Charles Bar. to get on a get on a get on a death together. Oh yeah, that'd be that'd be good for TV there, boy. Hey, you go fill up at TNT.

Do go through TNT one time. No, you're on the ESPN now. Hey, they're Alabama and that Georgia. Hey, boy, two of the country, hey, two of the most country boys on TV. That'd be funny, boy. What? Yeah, it's a, man, y'all leave perk alone, man.

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Listen to Wey and Howls on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. On his behalf, they'll say you're glazing or played by clutch. You're right, you're right. We're kind of getting to the point where legends aren't going out gracefully like they should. From Carmelo to how Cp3 was handled, watching how the Lakers acted, LeBron, isn't LeBron, even Kevin Iran. So I just want him to go somewhere where he is appreciated and gets his flowers. he deserved.

You're absolutely right. Yeah. But you notice, nobody ever said, I was on Rob Polenka's payroll when I was hyping COVID. Nobody said when you speak, talk about, speak positive about Jordan,

and nobody say you're on Jordan, oh, you're on Jordan brand payroll, or you on Nike payroll. When I speak up about Luca, and I speak up about Yokic, and y'all know, when I was on, undisputed, nobody spoke in more glowing terms

about Luca Donchich than I did. Yeah. Nobody spoke more glowing terms about Nicola Yokic than I did. But if you say something positive about LeBron James, oh, that check hit. Yeah.

So I guess nobody else, because, you know, if you say something about Shea, you can't say, so the only person in the history of the game that if you said something good about LeBron scored 50, he had 50 points, 15 rebounds, 12, or

is. Jordan would have had 70. Kobe would have at least 68. You got the, you know, those people are people that don't really like LeBron in general. Those are personal issues.

But I'm just saying, but how, just because, so if, when I speak, I've called it like I've seen it. They do the same thing, Ocho, you know how they do

if we say something about a black quarterback. I said, but y'all didn't say nothing. When I was skinning, Tom Brady, when I was skinning, when I skit Tony Romo, and I skit check down Alex Smith.

Y'all didn't say a damn word, but now I say one thing, and it's been proven to be true. Oh, whoa. Whoa, whoa. Y'all saw it. Ended up. It was so bad with Tom Brady, it ended up costing us to show. Yeah.

Do y'all remember that chat? Y'all remember that? Damn, for real. What was it about, chat? What was it about? Baker Mayfield. Y'all remember? Chad, don't go blind on me now.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Yes, when Peyton Manning wasn't getting it done, and guess what? Still, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady understood I had a job to do. I still have a job to do. It's not personal.

Y'all think when somebody has a harsh critique and I get it because I'm really passionate about the stuff I debate about because I spend a lot of time, you know, trying to come up with what I want to say, how I want to say it, present in a way sometimes it just need to be informative, sometimes it needs to be entertaining,

sometimes it can be educational. But you know, you try to form your false old show to try, because people, you know, sometimes people want to be entertained. Yeah. So that's what, hey, you know, this, Lakers and Five. Sometimes people want to be informed or educated.

But I just, and it just got to the point, I was like, you know what, I just realized y'all gonna say what y'all want to say. I show with Clutch was cutting some checks. I do. I do. I damn sure take them, too. I damn sure we take them too.

But, no, I mean, it's, you know, you try to, you know, you try to be fair. You try to be as fair as you possibly can. And I know fair is a place where you buy, you know, ride the red, merry-go-round and the judge, pig to get you got candy but you just like okay look at it like this okay this is this this okay and you go with it yeah but y'all know when lebron is played bad and for the most part if you being honest i've said that now you know you need to do better brine you can do better i know you can do better than bad and i look i get it but no i need you to be better because i believe

you're the best player he's the only best player one of the few best players because when jordan was averaging and 37 and dropping 50 and 60 on people, they said he didn't have enough help. I like being 58. That's one of the part. I don't like sometimes how my body feels at 58, but I like being 58 because I'm old enough to remember. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, they called him selfish, man. They called MJ selfish when he was doing that. They did. Yeah. They did. The same thing, this very same thing. I remember mama mentality was selfish.

That's what I remember about mama mentality, Joe. That's what they said. It is. It is. He took it. That's what y'all said it, chat. Y'all said it, y'all said it, y'all said it. I remember, and he didn't never get to, he got a little bit.

Charles Barkley was really the only one that called him out. Y'all remember when he had that 3-1 lead against the Sons? Yeah. And then in game seven, when everybody said he was ball hogging and he refused to shoot, that ain't none of my business. I don't even know why I bought that up. Y'all remember that, right? Yeah.

Joe, they remember that? Joe, you think they remember that? Yeah, they remember that. I know because everybody brings up LeBrony go back to

oh J.J. Borell did this and Jason Terry Jason Terry played out of his mind Jason Terry could have easily been the finals MVP of that series though Joe

yeah that's how good Jett was it was but I but see I do remember a lot of things that we didn't say it about Kobe

I defended him yeah but they ain't seen no checks though so They didn't send me no checks though But no, I think the thing is, look, everybody realized that you have to do a job And when I used to go to a lot of things on Cho

And you probably still go to a lot of them now But I used to go all the time The Super Bowl, I used to go to all these functions for the NFL I go to the commissionals parties and I would go to all these places And I would see the owners to a man be it Mr. Kraft, Jared Richardson, and be all of,

you do your homework, don't you? I think that's the greatest compliment that it can give you. When you're prepared, they know you do your homework, they know you put the time in to be, you're not going to be perfect. You're not going to get every syllable.

Sometimes you're going to misspeak. And I tell people this all the time. You speak enough, you're going to flub. You're going to probably let a, you know, curse words slip out and people, hey, because they were saying, oh, you remember we came on last Saturday. No, it was a McGregor.

And I didn't know we were live. And I said, this was some boo, you know what. It's like, see, we knew you could cuss. Yes. But why would I cuss and then get demonetized? We're on air for two hours, three hours, and not make a dime because you want me to curse. Yes, I curse in private.

But when you're on television, you have to learn how to say, mofo or or S-O-B or or some bulljad or ninja you just got to do it you understand

how to weave and maneuver your way through just like on a job interview they asked you a question what you really want to say that ain't going to get me the job what I need to say going to get me the job

that's it but I agree with Buky as a matter of fact I just saw Bougie about two weeks ago I hate that he got hurt Joe, people don't realize how good Boogie Cousins. Oh.

Hey, Uncle Joe, I remember Boogie playing at what point he was in a battle for one of the best centers, if not the best center at the time when he was held. We was having a discussion. Who would you rather have Anthony Davis or Boogie Cousins? Yeah. I remember that. And I say based on what he can give you everything. Man, Boogie would give me your 55 and 26.

Boogie was giving you 40 and 20, 38 and 18. He was phenomenal. Hey, you talk with when you talk about talent, I'm not sure if it's a big that was more talented to him. Okay, Ocho. I'm saying from the standpoint of scoring with his back to the basket, facing up, he could put it on the floor. He could playmate. He wasn't a great defender, but he wasn't no guy who you just go at. You know what I mean?

Yeah. But when you talk about offensively having all the damn tools can, like, Like in today's game, he would, he would destroy guys, bro. Oh, yeah. Because he could pick and pop, he could shoot the three. He was going to be a dog under that goal. Why no, boogie? A, boogie probably mad is here.

He probably wishes mom would have had him or some of my years a little later because he'd be a a lot year later. He'd have at least 250 M. Oh, yeah, Boogie. By the time he was done, Boogie had about five, six hundred meal. He didn't have made five, six hundred meal. the boy had some game man he has some game he was phenomenal and the thing is joe it's funny how you watch guys in college i did not see this i did not see anthony david anthony david was a defensive

guy i think anthony david's might average like 12 points a game see the thing is the thing is when you get to the NBA that's all the hell you have to do all day yep it's play ball even after practice here typically if you really love the game and you're a gym rat you're gonna take your ass back up there at night use your key card your code to get in to get some shots up by yourself that's if you're trying to reach a whole other level everybody trying to go that damn level yeah yeah yeah but but but the ones who really enjoy the game and really love the game bro you gonna put that extra time in uncle also because you wanted to show on game day bro you wanted to show on game day hey hey it wasn't enough of me

just growing up wishing to be an NBA player when I got to the league after I got the hell I ain't exhale I'm like damn hold on Paul Pierce Antoine welcome the e-boy all stars out of here you become an all-star you just got to be consistently dominant yeah yeah let me figure this out they're gonna probably take me I won't figure it out though yeah hey man when I got when I got to the NFL my brother told me say look here you ain't trying to be a guy you trying to be the guy hello Yes, so. Okay. Okay.

Say no more. Yeah. He said, you've always been the guy. You ain't just the guy, hey, okay, special team was fine. That's how I had to cut my teeth. That's how I had to show that I could get it. Right. But, boy, look here, I need y'all to depend on me.

I need y'all to count on me like the first and the 15th. There you go. There you go. I'm stealing that. Yeah. There you go. That's how I need you to count on me. Yeah.

Hey, I'm trying to be a hell of an assay to this team, boy. Yes. Yeah. I wanted my teammates trust. No, I wanted my, I wanted my teammates respect. I wanted the coaches trust. I wanted the fans' appreciation.

Hello. Played 14, 12 in Denver, 2 in Baltimore. The fans know one thing. 84 and 82 gave us everything he had. We never questioned, oh, man, you bum, no, they already know.

I'm giving you everything I got. My teammates know I gave them everything I had. The coaches know the time, the energy, the effort that I put in to be great. That's the whole purpose. Look, and everybody can't be the guy. But you know if I give it everything I got, Ocho and Joe, and I'm not the guy, I got to live with that.

Yeah. But I know in my years, this is what I've learned. You know, the road less travel is the road to greatness. Hello. Everybody want to be mediocre. That's why it's so damn crowded. It's easy. Yes.

It's easy. But when you start getting to a level of greatness, the gym is always open. The machines are always open in the wait room. The food that you want to eat that will help you become even greater is always readily available. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't get it. The each is on. Everybody don't want to be. Everybody don't want. That's what I, that was hard for me to understand, Ocho and Joe, is that how some guys,

that I see the guys that have talent, and they're just okay. They're just okay being okay. That drove me crazy. I'm like, how, guys? Y'all don't want to be any better than this? This is far as you want to go. Yeah.

Man, shmash, man, NFL ain't for me. Hey, especially the guys who you see, they got the talent, they got the potential. You're like, damn, bro, if you, if you just locked in for real, like for real, if you just really locked in, hey boy you don't even know how special you could be yeah you know it's some cats who really just don't know and don't understand bro that they don't know how to be great they don't know what it takes

for real yeah it's hard it's hard to ungenjoke when you see people that had a potential it's hard to get them to apply themselves it's hard it's very very hard it is man i had a team in college he broke up with his girlfriend and went home what you mean went back left school What you mean he went home? Went home. It was too much for him. Couldn't take it. He said, yeah.

He said, man, I... Oh, hell. Man, what? Ain't nothing at home. I can tell you that. Hello. I ain't going to tell you the position he played, but he was a top 10 player,

he was a top 10 player in the country at his position. Damn. Hey, but when you think about it, Uncle Ocho, when guys get to college, bro, a lot of times, that's the first time. They're away from home? Yeah, they're away from home.

away from home and they probably dating a girl who are you know what I mean like you know because because now you ain't really got the restrictions from your parents like your parents ain't coming in there waking your ass up hey come on get up you got you ready to go to school everything you're doing on your own now you know what I mean it's it's it's college college make you a man boy hey I've seen a lot of people get swallowed up in it too though hey but I don't know I don't know if you're going to make it anyway man because if what's that too much for him.

Telling the spelled dog and give him the D and the O, he'll be there till tomorrow. Man, chill. You got chill. Joe, I'm telling you, man. I mean, I mean, some of these guys, Joe, I'm looking at them, I'm, I'm, I'm looking at them, and I'm listening to him talk, and I say, man,

let me see you work. I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, bro, you went through school and this is, I feel bad. I do, man, I feel bad, Joe. But the problem is, Going back home, it's not going to get any better. Hell, no. At all.

Because you're going to wish you hadn't made that decision. I don't think he does. Mm-mm. I don't think he does. You know, growth is scary, bro, at the majors. It is very scary. I'm telling you, boy. Getting out your comfort zone.

Ooh. The, the, they feel another unknown, you know, it's scared a lot of people, which is why they leave school and go back home. To not do a damn thing. Everything ain't for everybody. We just have to accept that. The Sixers Big Three are in contact with LeBron.

According to Dave McMinneman, the Sixers Big Three, Joelle and B., Jalen Brown, and Tyrese, have all been in contact with LeBron about joining them in Philly. Joe, what's the pitch? Hey, look, hell, can you blame them? I don't blame them.

Hell, I'd have been done called him. Look, man. It's got to be from NBee. though uncle Ocho like I get you know maxi edge come J.B you know they all probably didn't talk to him but because he he's so he's he's the he's the focus he's the centerpiece you know what I mean meaning his health wise his state of mind when he comes into you know a preseason training camp like bro we got what it takes to win but we got to believe it you know what I mean now what they pitching to him all

don't know because they just that perimeter scoring that they got brung going to want to facilitate bro and maxi just coming out of averaging 29 it's come probably about 16 17 them boys looking to add to that so you don't want to stunt the growth in that I don't know man it just it's like they probably like third or fourth on the list if I'm just keeping it real that's a lot of miles to feed yeah if you give them the key A lot of mouth. Huh? You get,

you get bro in the keys and tell them, look, man. We're going to let you dry that thing. Max are going to ride, shotgun. You feel me? Yeah. Hey, hey, hey. And where Jay to Brown won't be at?

He's going to get the average about 23, 24 game. Brown's going to be it probably about 11, 11 assists. Joe, this ain't NBA 2K, man. Joe, that hold on. Oh, Jay, LeB., you talked to Brian, but you ain't talked to me? Listen, hey. I'm here. We got here.

He can't hear it yet. We got, Hey, you're just a piece to the puzzle, okay? You know what? Don't get beside yourself.

Hey, this ain't, this ain't NBA 2K. It ain't happening. Don't get beside yourself. Hey, we add this piece. Yeah, we could possibly really make

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