Best of March Madness Part 2: Unc & Iso Joe CLOWN Duke for FUMBLING their Final Four chance on UConn's Game-Winner, T-Mac JOINS THE SHOW

24:14Shannon Sharpe:He still don't. I get the same feeling when I see that man in person that I got the very first time that I saw his ass in person. This guy was levitating. I don't care what nobody say. This man was levitating. He was not walking. He was levitating. And I've seen a lot, a lot of famous people in the world in my time. But don't nobody has the aura like Michael Jordan. Now, maybe Michael Jackson, but I never saw Michael Jackson in person. I've seen Prince in person. I've seen a lot of celebs in person. I've never seen anything like what this man, the glow and the power, the energy, the force that is around him, man.

24:57Shannon Sharpe:You got to be in his presence to understand what T-Max. But if you think about it, Chad, everybody that's ever been around him, he said the same thing. From Shaq to Kevin Garnett to everybody said the exact same thing. He doesn't. Allen Ivers say, man, he don't even seem real. No, he don't, man. I was actually just with him at the Writers' Cup. And it's hard not to just stare at Mike, bro. That's Mike, bro. I'm glad I ain't the only one. I'm glad I ain't the only one. Yo, that's Mike right there, fool. But nah, he, and for me, when I first saw him and then my first couple of times playing against him, like, I still had that feeling, but it's like I've been around Mike so many times.

25:44I still, you know, have high regards. The auras kind of wore off a little bit. It's still there, and that's still Mike. But man, when I was 17 years, I ain't never seen anything like it, bro.

25:58Shannon Sharpe:It's amazing. Like I said, I've been around a lot of famous people. A lot, a lot of famous people. But ain't nothing like this dude right here, man. Nah, nah. And when he came back to the Wizards, because I was 17 years, I mean, 18 years old, you know, I played against him when they won 72-10. That was my rookie year. Okay. And I played against him his last year before he retired. And, you know, that 18-year-old me was trying to figure out, you know, who I was as an NBA player and trying to learn the game. So I didn't really, you know, have that type of game or that force that I wanted. But when his ass came back, when he was with the Wizards, ah, ah.

26:42Hey, you might be wounded, but I'm going to give you this work. I got to give you this work. I don't like what you did to my mind when I was 17 years old,

26:52Shannon Sharpe:making me seem like you ain't real. Hey, because that was Kobe's mindset. You remember Kobe dropped 55 over the last time he played it. And people were like, well, Kobe, why would you do that? He said that's what he would want me to do. He would have it no other way. Because I guarantee you, if the roles were reversed. Oh, yeah, he would have did the same thing. Would have did the same thing. So that's why before he left that, before I had to get at least 40 on it, bro. Before he stopped playing, And I had to see that I dropped 40. And I don't care if the Wizards might, because the Wizards might, was still averaging 24 points, 25 points, and putting up some crazy numbers when he was healthy playing.

27:28So I viewed him as Chicago Bulls might. He got to come get his work.

27:35Shannon Sharpe:When you look, you know what I wanted to ask you to, Mac? I have a guy that played the game at an elite level. There was a lot of conversation going back and forth when Bam got 83. Bam got 83. Look how he got to 83. The game was out of reach. T-Mac, can you just tell the people how hard it is to score? 40, 50, 60, because I think you've got a career high of like 60, 62. So now, go to 70, go to 80. I don't give a damn how he did it. I don't care if he cherry picked, snowbird, whatever you guys call it, where the guy just standing at half court and getting layoffs on the other end. I don't give a damn what you call it.

28:12Shannon Sharpe:83 is 83. Talk to the people from somebody that played the game at an elite high, high level. Explain to the people, even though the Washington Wizards are trash and it says more about them than it does BAM, explain to people 83 down points. Yeah, the league has been around, you know, 70-something years. Only three. How many people scored that? Three. Three. That's all I have. It's only three, regardless of how he did it and how you view him as he, when he did it. It's 83 points and we haven't seen that. Only one time. And that was, that was B. So yeah, I think it could have been a little bit more competitive on Washington's side.

28:56Of course, but they make millions of dollars as well. They got a job to do. And if you had an opportunity to make history, who's not going to do that? So when, so, so 30 years from now, when, you know, kids are coming up, these babies right now and they come up and they looking at the scoreless like damn what's the man out of my oh he scored 83 points they're not gonna care how he scored it they just know man that man is on the whole time score and so i don't care how he scored it man you know it's a lot of people out there that's that's hating on the man because he overtook and kobe never had the record i don't know what they talk about it kobe had the record like that record of the hundred The record is 100.

29:39Now, we haven't seen it. I haven't seen it in the video, but the record is 100.

29:42Shannon Sharpe:But you know what I think, T-Mac? I think because Kobe got 81 and then back. See, I think it was Bam is because he's the most unlikeliest guy to get 83. Had Kobe got 83, had you got 80, it got 80 plus. Had one of these guys that we look at at scores, Kevin Durant, James Harden, Allen Iverson. If we look, if one of you guys get it, I don't think anybody's batting the eye. But you're talking about Bam that's a career, what, 20-point, a night scorer? And all of a sudden, he jumped from 20 all the way up to get 83? We don't normally see guys go like that. You look at Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell, when he got 70, you look at Luka, he got 70.

30:20Shannon Sharpe:Those guys are scorers. So it's not anything. So if they were to get – because we saw them get – Luka got 73, I think, against the Hawks. I think Donovan Mitchell got 70-something. If they get 80, we're not even batting the eye. but Bam got it. And we don't look at Bam as one of those guys a score. He's an NBA player, man. The man got hot. He had a phenomenal night. End of story. Like, he scored 83, man. Let that shit go, bro. Like, man, he's an NBA player, bro. I've seen guys averaging, you know, 17 points in this league get 50. So what do you got to say about that?

31:00Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, I think Ocho tried, and you muted, Ocho. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Hey, Mac, I got a question. Listen, normally, normally pushback for for 83 point game that BAM scored. You hear from analysts, you hear from pundits, you hear from from from fans that are just just just fans of the game in general that enjoy watching basketball. But when you hear pushback from actual players that played the game, you know, and they complain also about BAM scoring 83. Why do you think that is? Especially for those who have played the game at the highest level. Why would they have a problem with it? It's because of how it happened.

31:39And rightfully so. Like, it was a nasty game.

31:46It was a nasty game of what they were doing. That's what they're speaking on. There's no disrespect to Bam. It's just how it happened. You know what I mean? Like, the Washington Wizards and fouling, and then Miami fouling to try to get the ball back. Yeah, it was all that stuff right there is what they was pissed off about.

32:07Shannon Sharpe:I don't know. Did you see Shump's comment? I did not. Iman Shump said, this is what he said about Bam. Don't bring up Aiden no more. Don't bring that up. That was a regular season game versus a tanking team. You murdered that team. And then you walk off, Bam. You don't need to talk about it. We all saw it. Let us talk about it. I'm in a suit. I can talk about it. Don't talk about it no more, Bam, because now it looks weird. You're about to make it more. I don't like 83 no more. I'm damn serious. Please don't be holding on to this, Bam. I need you to add to your resume. F that. I'm talking about it forever.

32:42Shannon Sharpe:As a matter of fact, I'm changing my name, Mr. 83. Mr. 83. Actually, that's going to be my social media name on all social media channels. Mr. 83. Straight up. Like, come on, bro. How you not talk about that? Man, man, these people are crazy, dog. That's 83 points in an NBA game, my dude, against NBA players that's making millions of dollars. Come on, dog. It's his. No, we can't do that. Hey, Young, it's history. It's history. How can you not talk about history? You're a part of it. Let me get, I tell you, Ocho, let's just say for the sake of argument, all their top corners go out, but you get 300 yards, and y 'all still throwing the ball.

33:26Shannon Sharpe:y 'all up 21 points and y 'all throw the ball and you catch a 15-yard route to go over 300. Are you going to say, man, I feel bad for them. They top three quarters was out. I did the ball. Oh, no. Oh, no. Right. You in the NFL. I'm going to talk. You'd be crazy. I might change my last name to 300, too. Shut up. 300.

33:51it it's very rare for us to see this type of performance regardless of how it happens right regardless of how it happens it's supposed to be the best players in the world right it's supposed to be the best league in the world right that's all i'm saying so we're the best players in the best league. The man scored 83 points. There's no asterisk. It happened.

34:18Shannon Sharpe:I think, see, people are like, well, Kobe didn't mention it. Well, Kobe had a game where he stopped at 62 and left in the third and then come back in the game. Kobe has had these scoring outbursts. So we're not surprised. I don't think anybody was surprised because just three weeks earlier, he had a 62-point game where he outscored in time. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was the Mavericks. by himself in three quarters. So we're not surprised when Kobe, like, kept going and ended up getting that. Or when Jordan has got these 60 points. But Bam, I don't even know if Bam's career high is even 40.

34:56Shannon Sharpe:Do you remember David Robinson was trying to get a scoring title? I do, last game of the season, they got him the scoring title to beat Shaq. Feeding him every single time, every single trip. But we don't say nothing about that, right? As a matter of fact, I think it was against the Clippers. It was against the Clippers. They fed the crap out of Dave Robinson. He wasn't going to score that against nobody else. He had 71. Man, he wasn't scoring that against nobody else but the Clippers. Why? Because they were like the Washington. Okay, okay. Well, you mean the Washington Generals. They played the Harlem Gold Trouters.

35:30Shannon Sharpe:That's what the Wizards are now. Hey, teammate, you said this week the Board of Governors and NBA, they're convening and they're going to vote possibly expansion. One Vegas, one Seattle. You said you was like, hold on guys. I'm not so sure there's enough talent on the 30 current NBA teams for you to dilute it even more adding two more teams because players can only, you can only protect a certain number of players. And then everybody else is up for discussion with those teams like, okay, I want this guy, I want that guy. What went into your thought process? Why did you say you don't think there's enough talent that's currently in the NBA for the league to add two more teams.

36:12So we just talk. We just talk about them scoring 83 points, right? What did you call that TV score 83 points on? The Washington General. We want to see we want two more teams. And you just said the NBA team you call these boys the Washington General. they're not the only team like that you got utah tanking you got the brooklyn next yep you you want to watch the brooklyn next nah bro i don't why why you know why you don't want

36:49Shannon Sharpe:to watch the brooklyn next they ain't even trying they at least at least the wizards are playing their guys team at the utah not even they take their guys out they down by two and they bitch They started for the whole fourth quarter. Triple J getting surgery on a wisdom tooth. He out for the rest of the year. Man, that's a blow job. You make it. So, when you answer the question that you asked me, Sacramento, you two and then why Sacramento up? No. Not even. All right, man. So, now you talk about adding two more teams than this. Come on, bro. I got a question. I got a question, Mac. Ocho, let me follow this up right quick.

37:27Shannon Sharpe:T-Mac, you're talking about two teams, and each team, they say the winning bid is going to be somewhere between$7 and$10 billion. And the owners, you know that's probably$500, maybe$600 million in each owner's pocket. Hey, hey, I don't want to take no money out of nobody's pocket. I know it's about bread. I know it's about bread. Okay. But I'm just saying, as a fan of the game, man, we don't have the product, man. I'm sorry. We just don't have the product. The league is weird. It's strange, man. I can't understand the league. I'm looking at a guy that averaged 30 points last year in the NBA, 29, 30 points on a bad team, but a bucket getter, probably one of the best bucket getters in our league as a young player.

38:18He gets waves from his team. Another bad team picks him up, right? Cam Thomas. Cam Thomas, another bad team, picks him up. He stays there for a few weeks, and they wave him. Ocho, the brother was averaging 30 in the NBA last season before he got hurt, and he's out of the NBA. So, come on, like, I want that type of talent in the NBA. I want that in the NBA to where he takes tough shots. He's a tough shot maker. he can't find out he can't find a home in the nba now i don't know the other stuff that's going on whether it's his attitude or he's not you know i'm saying i don't know none of that i don't have any of that information but in terms of a basketball player and what we need in this league what we want to see that kid is one of the best scores you would see in this league hey hey hey mac what i'm gonna say right you know if it make money it makes sense especially the owner to the gms the bottom line it will always be the same and it's always been the same since the beginning of time it's always about it's always about the money so with these two expansion teams if seattle is able to get one if vegas is able to get one how long do you think it would take before they're able to produce the product or get the product necessary for those teams to compete or is that not possible because there's not enough basketball players in general no i i think it is possible because i mean I think with some of these kids coming out of college, it depends on how you construct your roster.

39:58There's some vets that probably are up for a contract and possibly will look at that Las Vegas situation or look at Seattle. Seattle's a phenomenal city to hoop it, by the way. Vegas, NBA players, that's a little tricky. No taxes to you, man. Yeah, but that's a little tricky. That's Vegas. I said, hey, the girls can handle that. The WNBA players can handle that. The NFL players, it's more of a strict league. You know, you guys only got one game. And y 'all have a curfew. NBA players got too much downtime, dog. Vegas might be a little tricky.

40:41Shannon Sharpe:T-Mac, tell us about the ones league that you found. What is the ones? So that's my one-on-one league, man. You know, I started a one-on-one league back in 2022, and it was my proof-of-concept season. And I started this league because of where I am sitting today is because of a platform that I got on when I was in high school, and that was the ABCD camp. See, if y 'all don't know, I was an unknown high school player up until my senior year. Nobody really knew who I was. I got invited to the Adidas camp, become, you know, the number one player after that Adidas camp. And, you know, the story is I go to the NBA and the rest is history.

41:23So it's that platform that really made me who I was and gave me a name. So it's a lot of hoopers. Ocho, you know, you grew up down in the bottom, man. You grew up some guys that can hoop like crazy and probably had, you know, a situation where someone in the family died and they had to pivot and step up and, you know, be the parent, the guardian in that situation, or they just couldn't get it right as a teenager and was in some trouble and, you know, ruined their careers or whatever. And then guys just really didn't get the opportunity to live out their dream of playing basketball. Well, there are so many guys, so much talent and one-on-one out here, man, that I feel they should have that platform.

42:08You played one-on-one growing up? I did. Ocho, you played one-on-one. Yes, sir. No. We all played. Go ahead, T-Mac.

42:19Shannon Sharpe:Hey, T-Mac, you know 21 was one-on-one. Basically. It was one-on-one against 15 other guys. I was just about to say that. Like, I grew up playing one-on-one, and then 21 was our one. Now it looks weird. You're about to make it work. I don't like 83 no more. I'm damn serious. Please don't be holding on to this, man. I need you to add to your resume if that I'm talking about it as a matter of fact I'm changing my name mr. 83 mr. 83 actually that's gonna be my social me my social media name on all social media channels mr. 83 straight up like how do not talk about it man and these people are crazy though that's 83 points in an NBA game, my dude, against NBA players that's making millions of dollars.

43:08Come on, dog. No, we can't do that. It's history. It's history. How can you not talk about history? You're a part of it.

43:19Shannon Sharpe:Let me get, I tell you, Ocho, let's just say for the sake of argument, all their top corners go out, but you get 300 yards, and y 'all still throwing the ball, y 'all up 21 points, and y 'all throw the ball, and you catch a 15-yard route to go over 300. Are you going to say, man, I feel bad for them. They top three quarter was out. I did the move. Oh, no. Oh, no. Right. You in the NFL. I'm going to talk. You'd be crazy. I might change my last name to 300, too. Shut it up. 300. 300. I don't. Do you? It's very rare for us to see this type of performance, regardless of how it happens. Right? Regardless of how it happens.

44:04It's supposed to be the best players in the world, right? It's supposed to be the best league in the world, right? That's all I'm saying. So we're the best players in the best league. The man scored 83 points. There's no asterisk. It happened.

44:20Shannon Sharpe:I think, see, people are like, well, Kobe didn't mention it. Well, Kobe had a game where he stopped at 62 and left in the third and then come back in the game. Kobe has had these scoring outbursts. So we're not surprised. I don't think anybody was surprised because just three weeks earlier, he had a 62-point game where he outscored in time, if I'm not mistaken, I think it was the Mavericks, by himself in three quarters. So we're not surprised when Kobe kept going and ended up getting that or when Jordan has got these 60 points. But Bam, I don't even know if Bam's career high is even 40. Do you remember David Robinson was trying to get a scoring title?

45:01Shannon Sharpe:I do. Last game of the season, they got him the scoring title to beat Shaq. Feeding him. Every single time. Every single trip. But we don't say nothing about that. Right? As a matter of fact, I think it was against the Clippers. It was against the Clippers. Oh, yes. They fed the crap out of David Robinson. He wasn't going to score that against nobody else. He had 71. Man, he wasn't scoring that against nobody else but the Clippers. Why? Because they were like the Washington Warriors. Okay, okay. Well, you mean the Washington Generals? They played the Harlem Gold Trouters. That's what the Wizards are now.

45:36Shannon Sharpe:Hey, teammate, you said this week the Board of Governors of the NBA, they're convening and they're going to vote possibly expansion. One Vegas, one Seattle. You said you was like, hold on, guys. I'm not so sure there's enough talent on the 30 current NBA teams for you to dilute it even more, adding two more teams, because you can only protect a certain number of players. And then everybody else is up for discussion with those teams like, okay, I want this guy, I want that guy. What went into your thought process? Why did you say you don't think there's enough talent that's currently in the NBA for the league to add two more teams?

46:14So we just talked about Bam scoring 83 points, right? What did you call that team he scored 83 points on? The Washington Generals. We want two more teams. And you just said the NBA team, you call these boys the Washington Generals. They're not the only team like that. You got Utah tanking. You got the Brooklyn Nets. Yep. You want to watch the Brooklyn Nets?

46:47Shannon Sharpe:Nah, bro. I don't. Why? Why you don't want to watch the Brooklyn Nets? They ain't even trying. At least the Wizards are playing their guys, T-Mack. Utah, not even, they take their guys out. They down by two, and they started for the whole fourth quarter. Triple J getting surgery on the wisdom tooth. He out for the rest of the year. Man, that's a blow job. You make it, so when you answer the question that you asked me, Sacramento, you two and then watch Sacramento up? No. Donnie, baby. All right, man. So now you talk about adding two more teams. Come on, bro. I got a question. I got a question, Mac.

47:27Shannon Sharpe:Mac. Let me follow this up right quick. T-Mac, you're talking about two teams, and each team, they say the winning bid is going to be somewhere between$7 and$10 billion. And the owners, you know that's probably 500, maybe$600 million in each owner's pocket. Hey, hey, I don't want to take no money out of nobody's pocket. I know it's about bread. I know it's about bread. Okay. I'm just saying as a fan of the game. Okay. We don't have the product, man. I'm sorry. We just don't have the product. The league is weird. It's strange, man. I can't understand the league. I'm looking at a guy that averaged 30 points last year in the NBA.

48:1129, 30 points. On a bad team. But a bucket getter. Probably one of the best bucket getters in our league as a young player. he gets waived from his team. Another bad team picks him up. Cam Thomas. Cam Thomas. Another bad team picks him up. He stays there for a few weeks, and they waive him. That, Ocho, the brother was averaging 30 in the NBA last season before he got hurt, and he's out of the NBA. So, come on, like, I want that type of talent in the NBA. I want that in the NBA to where he takes tough shots he's a tough shot maker he can't find a home in the NBA now I don't know the other stuff that's going on whether it's his attitude or he's not I don't know none of that I don't have any of that information but in terms of a basketball player and what we need in this league what we want to see that kid is one of the best scores you would see in this league hey hey hey mac what i'm gonna say right you know if it make money it makes sense especially the owner to the gms the bottom line it will always be the same and it's always been the same since the beginning of time it's always about it's always about the money so with these two expansion teams if seattle is able to get one if vegas is able to get one how long do you think it would take before they're able to produce the product or get the product necessary for those teams to compete?

49:43Or is that not possible because there's not enough basketball players in general? No, I think it is possible because, I mean, there's, you know, I think with some of these kids coming out of college, it depends on, like, how you construct your roster. There's some vets that's probably are, you know, up for a contract and possibly will look at that Las Vegas situation or look at Seattle. Seattle's a phenomenal city, to hoop it, by the way. Vegas, for NBA players, that's a little tricky. No taxes to you, man. Yeah, but that's a little tricky. That's Vegas.

50:25Hey, the girls can handle that. The WNBA players can handle that. The NFL players, it's more of a strict league. You know, you guys only got one game and y 'all have a curfew. NBA players got too much downtime, dog. Vegas might be a little tricky.

50:43Shannon Sharpe:G-Mac, tell us about the ones league that you found. What is the ones? So that's my one-on-one league, man. You know, I started the one-on-one league back in 2022. And it was my proof of concept season. And I started this league because of where I am sitting today is because of a platform that I got on when I was in high school. And that was the ABCD camp. See, if y 'all don't know, I was an unknown high school player up until my senior year. Nobody really knew who I was. I got invited to the Adidas camp, become, you know, the number one player after that Adidas camp. And, you know, the story is I go to the NBA and the rest is history.

51:25So it's that platform that really made me who I was and gave me a name. So it's a lot of Hoopers. Ocho, you know, you grew up down in the bottom, man. You grew up with some guys that can hoop like crazy and probably had, you know, a situation where someone in the family died and they had to pivot and step up and, you know, be the parent, the guardian in that situation. Or they just couldn't get it right as a teenager and was in some trouble and, you know, ruined their careers or whatever. And then guys just really didn't get the opportunity to live out their dream of playing basketball. Well, there's so many guys, so much talent and one-on-one out here, man, that I feel they should have that platform.

52:10Um, you played one-on-one growing up, Um? I did. Ocho, you played one-on-one growing up? No. We all played.

52:17Shannon Sharpe:Go ahead, T-Mac. Hey, T-Mac, you know 21 was one-on-one. Basically. It was one-on-one against 15 other guys. I was just about to say that. Like, I grew up playing one-on-one, and then 21 was our one-on-one as well. So, man, I just think these cats out here really need that platform. I want to create it for them. But on top of that, you know, it's much bigger than just giving them a platform to make a name for themselves in basketball. I also want to do something for brothers that look like us in the ownership department, see? It's not too—in your league, it's not too many guys that look like us that have ownership.

52:57I was lucky enough to have that opportunity to go in with the Buffalo Bills with my cousin Vince. So we got some ownership with that. And it just really sparked my interest. I want to do this for my people, and I want to change how I'm building this league. So I'm building it to have cities. I want cities and have guys like Jadakus, who's from New York. I give him 15 % of this team that's based out of New York. John Wall is from Raleigh. I gave him 15 % of that Raleigh team. And I have eight cities and eight owners and GMs that I assigned to this team, gave them equity. I didn't want any money from them.

53:42I just handed it to them because they are impactful in those cities that they grew up. And then when you look at the game of basketball, our game of basketball, NBA, like Steph Curry is not from Oakland or San Francisco. LeBron James is not from L.A. These guys are homegrown from these cities, and I want that community to get behind them and push these guys and support these guys. So that's why I want to do this, man. And, you know, I'm really excited about giving these guys this platform.

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