Best of NBA News Part 1: FREAK KNICK parade, Jalen Brunson OVER Allen Iverson & LeBron's RETURN?

15:46Shannon Sharpe:We complimented him. We said he was an all pro. We said he was an MVP. We said he was a DPOY or OPOY, Rookie of the Year. We gave him kudos. Nah, the thing I love most about sports is that unlike most jobs where you have to update your resume every three to six months, you got to update your resume if you play basketball damn near every other day, if you play football every single week. That's what I love most about sports. Update that resume. Some people still sliding that same old ass resume across the table. Man, damn, bro. I see you hadn't changed jobs in a couple of years.

16:27Shannon Sharpe:Any new references? But this was unbelievable. We either saw Ocho or Paul George sighting. Check this out, Joe. You seen the what? Oh.

16:43Chad Johnson:Come on. What's Paul Jordan now? That's you with the feet. She's going in.

16:51Shannon Sharpe:That's you with the feet. She's a guy. Put your hand over that right there. Just let that other stuff out take over. Hey, hey, hey, there we go. Hey, hey, hey, Uncle Joe, sometimes it don't matter where you at. Sometimes you got to get it in. You hear me? Huh? Sometimes you got to get it in. Nah, man. Nah, you can't do that in the public now. Hey, listen, there was a time, you know, there was a time where things used to be just like that. It didn't matter. Man, every time was never like that. Yeah, maybe, yeah, you go to spring break and you drunk. Y 'all remember MTV Spring Break? Yeah, man, of course.

17:31Shannon Sharpe:People was wilding like that. Hold on. Hey, I've been to spring break, but you drunk. Man, come on now. Time out, time out. Talk about time out, time out. Let's rewind. Let's settle down a little bit. We talk about somebody sucking toes at the Knicks parade, right? Yes. You do know we were a part of Freaknik, right? Let's not act like we've never seen nothing like that in public. And we done seen way worse with Freaknik down in Atlanta now. I'm not going to talk about it. I'm not going to tell you about the times I was there, Joe. Boy, listen here. Now you're talking about language. Because I was smack dab into Freaknik.

18:06Shannon Sharpe:I was right there with you. I was just a little younger. They reached out to me. I got no comment. I'm saying. When they did the documentary? Yeah. Why you ain't get on there, man?

18:22Chad Johnson:Tell your story.

18:23Shannon Sharpe:No, no. Joe, where you was at? Where you was at during that time, Joe? When you was at? By the time Joe got that letter, it was done. But I mean, back there in the heart, basically from about 92 to about 97, I'm talking about it was the absolute apex. Apex, yeah. Was that the absolute apex? I'm talking about. I was still in high school here. Hey, Joe, I was a freshman. I was a freshman in college. And I had the opportunity to go out there. That's what it was. You could have. I was a baby. I ain't really could. I wasn't shy, but I'm outside of my element based on what I've been able to see because grandma kept me kind of somewhat shelving a little bit.

19:13It was new to me and I just remember what I saw. Oh, okay.

19:17Chad Johnson:Well, I know you don't take me for a guy, for guys who do public fornication. Y 'all don't take me for those kind of guys.

19:24Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, you be out. I do. I do take you that. That's why you're number one. But I would say, somebody said, as a matter of fact, I was having a conversation today. They're like, man, Joe. They said, man, Joe be real quiet. I said, man, Joe got your food. I said, Joe, present that shy brother in me, that shy little brother. I said, man, Joe cut up. I said, Joe cut up. Why you want to put that jacket on me?

19:50Chad Johnson:It don't fit me, man. It's your size. It's an extra large.

19:54Shannon Sharpe:Extra large, extra long. That's the size you wear. It definitely ain't true. He got it. We got an extra large, extra long jacket for him. That's the size he was. Hey, Joe, you think you fooling us. You ain't fooling us. I can see you. Yeah, you ain't fooling us.

20:10Chad Johnson:What you mean? I ain't the one who's going to Freaknik and doing all this. I wasn't doing all that.

20:17Shannon Sharpe:Because you wasn't old enough. Had you been older, your ass would have been right there. Let Freaknik ever.

20:23Chad Johnson:Listen, your ass would have been right there. Listen, that was before my time, man. That was before my time. But I already know y 'all went down there and cut up. I knew. I already knew. Matter of fact, he ain't go to Freaknik, but I guarantee he made up for it. What do you mean? Joe,

20:41Shannon Sharpe:you made up for it. I was leaving one going to another. Black College Beach Week, Freaknik, Orange Crush. I mean, Daytona got a black college spring break. I got another one for you too now. Hold on, hold on. What's that? The classic. The classic, Family of Bethune. Yeah, I heard about that. And don't forget about Memorial Day in Miami. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But see, that was going, Ochoa, when I was, you know, when I got to get out there and cut a buck, they wasn't out there like that. Hey, listen, let me tell you all something.

21:13Chad Johnson:Well, when I first heard about Miami, I was in the league, meaning like I had never really been out there and hung out. Okay, Ochoa, I ain't going to lie to you. Yeah. But me and the homies went out there and I said, you know what? I got a guy out there who said he's going to train me. We can go out there and train, you know, work out and party. We was only supposed to be out there for three days Man, we was out there for two months

21:36Chad Johnson:Hey, all right, Joe, we out there for two months I'm talking about Damn, how three days turn into two months, Joe? Hey, you know how it go, man You get out there, you go to Minglin And next thing you know, you're like Well, I think I can stay a couple extra days Yeah, man

21:52Shannon Sharpe:Yeah Boy, that Black College Beach Week, man Hey, whew Boy, I put that bitch on the road. Tallahassee, Atlanta, South Carolina. Hey, if you got a 400-mile radius,

22:08Shannon Sharpe:I'm coming. I'm coming.

22:14Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Freak Nick, I told Shell, I said, look here. The camcorder, they got everything recorded on from 90, from Freak Nick and Black College Beat Week. So basically 90, 91, 92, and they got 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97. Put that in the ground with me. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Put that in the ground with me. As a matter of fact, you know what I'm going to do. I'm about to destroy that.

22:39Chad Johnson:Nah, nah, nah. You got to destroy that. Nah, nah, nah. You got to go back and look at it. Now, and then look. Wait, hold on, hold on, Unc. This is what he need to do, Unc and Joe. You saw paid in full, huh? Remember Cam 'ron? Remember Cam 'ron character when he was in the club and he showed the old footage. Yeah. You need to get that freaking footage and show it on Nightcap. Oh, no. Hell no. Man, Ojo, look here.

23:05Shannon Sharpe:Some of them women, I'm almost certain are married. I'm so sure some of them are grandmas. No, leave that alone. Just blur the face out, man. No, my grandma used to say, boy, staring up old-ish, it still smells.

23:18Chad Johnson:No. Hey, hey, hey, hey, Ojo. Ojo, I know what you're looking for because I got a couple camcorders with some SIM cards in there that's got some stuff on there, boy, from back when I was in Miami, boat parties and all, yeah.

23:31Shannon Sharpe:All the, and house parties. Oh, boy, the house party was off the chain.

23:36Chad Johnson:Hold on, Joe, what you were doing on the boat, Joe? I mean, you know, we just having a little fun, you know. Hold on, I can't hear you. Take your time. I said we were having a little fun, okay? Yeah, it probably, yeah, it probably about, it probably about, about eight to one on there. You know what I mean? God, eight to one? Yeah, I probably eat the one on now.

23:57Shannon Sharpe:We just ate. You have some good times. Hey, Joe, you don't get a little hot. You already know. Young Shea come up out of the cold. What you got that thing? What? Bad was I? Yeah. Bad look here. I already know. Dang. Nah, Ocho, you know, some things, some things, you know, where just, I survived it. Like I said, I'm glad I'm old enough because some of the things that were going on, I didn't need to see. And I damn sure didn't need to be in the vicinity of why it was happening. Because I don't see, boy, look here. Yeah, that right there, what you saw on the, what you, that ain't nothing right there.

24:44Shannon Sharpe:Oh, are you? What? That was elementary, Joe. Oh, they were getting that like that? Joe, what? Man, please.

24:55Chad Johnson:Joe, you was in Miami already, so I ain't really got to tell you nothing. But y 'all want the freak me, though. Freak me. Hey, man, I heard some stories, bro. Joe, you got to realize, hold on.

25:07Shannon Sharpe:I'm 24, 25, 26, 27. The first time I went to Black College Beach Week in Daytona, I had just I was 21

25:25Shannon Sharpe:Walking down Walking down the street Joe I'm talking about Hey me and my homeboy We done got to Went to the gym And pumped up And on tour Oh yeah Oh yeah Man you bad You ought to see Other people pulling over Good God about it

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29:45Shannon Sharpe:The Lakers and LeBron James are reportedly negotiating a new contract per Brian Windhorst. I think the focus right now is making a deal with the Lakers. Right now, he's allowed to negotiate with the Lakers, and I believe they are negotiating. I believe they're going back and forth.

30:03Chad Johnson:I can see that. The thing is, how many of those guys you really going to be able to bring back? You know, when it comes to Rui, when it comes to Marcus Smart. Marcus Smart.

30:19Shannon Sharpe:Well, we know two guys, we know one guy that don't walk back. Who? He coming back to win.

30:25Chad Johnson:Who they don't? He a free agent, a domination?

30:28Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, abomination. Yo, you had a big abomination these days. It's out of there. How you know? The big hallucination. How you know, huh? Hey, hold on. You can't let somebody walk unless you got somebody to replace it. Yeah, you can. Because they don't take much to replace it.

30:45Chad Johnson:He a free agent? Hold on, he a free agent, huh?

30:47Shannon Sharpe:I think he signed a one-year deal. Didn't he sign a one-year deal? If I'm not mistaken, he had a one-year deal, Joe and Ocho. Well, then what you going to do about your bid? This is going to be a proving year for him, huh? And what did he prove? He good and terrible. Yeah, somebody going to pay him, though. Oh, Joe, I can't look here. You breaking with your girl. Somebody going to date her. That ain't got nothing to do with you. Yeah. Yeah.

31:11Chad Johnson:Right, right.

31:14Shannon Sharpe:Hey, she breaking up with me. Hey, somebody going to eventually date me. I might not get a date tomorrow or two weeks from tomorrow, but somebody going to scoop old Shay up.

31:24Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, hey. Hey, would you say, they might not get you right away, but they going to get you? How about I get scooped up tomorrow? But hey, hey, hey, Ojo, but he going to put meat on something that night. Hey, hey, hey, hey, dog.

31:44Shannon Sharpe:Right now, I ain't got no emergency. I ain't got no breaking glass in case of emergency. I ain't got that no more, huh? Yes, sir. I ain't got that no more. Hey, time to change. Oh, he got a player option for 8.1. Oh, he opted up out of that. He ain't fit to play for no 8.1.

32:01Chad Johnson:Yeah, he opted in there. I bet you he don't opted in there, Joe. 8.1, ain't that kind of disrespectful, ain't it? Yes. It's disrespectful. It ain't disrespectful if ain't nobody going to pay you here.

32:16Shannon Sharpe:Somebody give him at least 15, 20, Joe. A seven-footer? Yeah, he too tall. And guess what, Joe? guess what? He'll be better over here. Where? With the Lakers? That's what... Ocho, how many times we don't say this in the NFL? We see this in every league. You might be bad over there but you'll be better over here. Everybody will convince themselves I can change them. How many times you don't see somebody pick up something I can change them. I know she might have been like that with him or he might have been like that with her, but me?

32:55Chad Johnson:Hold on, hold on. Wait a minute. Hold on, hold on. You got this. Slow down, Terrell. Slow down. Check me out. Check me out. Check. Y 'all hear me out. Hear me out. You forgetting that Luka got hurt. Luka wasn't there, man. AR missed a lot, and it was him and Bruin a lot of the times, so he put a lot on Aiden. That probably shouldn't have been on him. You see what I'm saying? if Luka can stay healthy, if those guys can stay healthy, I don't think his job should be that damn hard. It is, though.

33:26Shannon Sharpe:Because you know why? Because he doesn't have a motor. You look at the guys that Luka's played with, you look at Daniel Gafford, what does Daniel Gafford have? A motor. Lively. What does he have? A motor. Guys that play with him have motors. That's what you need. I can't beg you to play. Hey, big fella, we need it tonight. Now, come on now. We need it tonight. I can't. Hey, I got like two or three of them in me. Over eight or two games straight, Joe. That's all I got. I got to do this every night?

33:58Chad Johnson:Hey, man, look. Y 'all know it. It's some guys, bro. You got to give them that pat on their back every game just to get them amped up. I'm going to let somebody else have them on their back. So you got to keep Jackson Hayes, though. You got to keep him.

34:11Shannon Sharpe:I would rather have Jackson Hayes than DeAndre Ayton. But they probably, you know, you're looking at how the Mavericks are looking that possibly they might be looking to get off of P.J. Washer, looking to get off of Daniel Gafford. I think Gafford, having played with Luka, understands Luka. He's definitely a lob threat. He runs. He plays hard. He's a better rim protector than DeAndre Ayton for sure.

34:38Chad Johnson:and I think a team like Utah Jazz wouldn't mind probably getting off one of them big

34:45Shannon Sharpe:you see Kessler is being reported that he turned down a 5 year 140

34:54Shannon Sharpe:it's unimaginable to me because I'm looking at a guy that doesn't really shoot threes if he shot threes let's say he was he shot threes like a Wimby or a Jokic or one of those guys like that, I was like, okay, that might be a little undervalued. But looking at him, yeah, he can protect the paint. Would he be better than Aiden? Possibly. I think he's a much better defender than Aiden. But that's not saying much. Hey, Uncle Joe. But his motor, Aiden could be good if he just had a motor. And you think sometimes these dudes overestimate their value? Yeah. Or do they know they won't get exactly what they want

35:34Chad Johnson:by turning down some of these deals. I think they know the market, Ocho, and they know, like, your agent ain't sitting here telling you to opt out your damn contract knowing that he can't get you another deal. You feel me? He's already done talking to,

35:47Shannon Sharpe:he's probably talked to a bunch of teams.

35:49Chad Johnson:Right, right, right, right. So they already got something in place. Now all you got to do is pull the trigger. You feel me? Like, ain't no guys opting out their contracts thinking like, well, I hope, I hope a team come along. Hell no.

36:02Shannon Sharpe:Not, especially not the kind of money that Trey Young got on the table. Rich Paul knows something. Rich Paul's done spoke to teams. He's probably already spoken to the Wizards that Trey's going to opt out of this contract. This is what we're looking for. And plus, you traded him. Why would you not? I mean, you going to let that man go after what you gave up to get him?

36:23Chad Johnson:I think that was in the deal, if you ask me, that Trey gets a new deal before he plays a game for the Wizards, which is probably why we never seen him play when he got traded.

36:34Shannon Sharpe:Exactly.

36:35Chad Johnson:Yeah.

36:36Shannon Sharpe:So it wouldn't make sense to me. I mean, it's the same thing. Anybody that signs Giannis, they've already got an extension already done. Oh, yeah. I'm not signing him and have him come and play on the last year of that deal. Absolutely not. After I've given up all those assets, so whoever signs Giannis, you best believe a deal is already done.

36:58Chad Johnson:Yeah, because the one thing you don't want is a disgruntled superstar. You don't want to gruntle, bro. Take care of him.

37:06Shannon Sharpe:And for me, I just, I've seen enough. I've seen it. Joe, I've seen enough. I saw it at Phoenix. I saw it at Portland. I saw it at, look, I saw it at the Lakers. How many more times you need to see? Aiden just doesn't have a consistent motor. Right. He's been at three. And the man's not 30. How old is Aiden? 28? Because he was in that draft with Luka. He went one. That draft with Luka and Trey Young. DeAndre Aydin is 27 years old. Oh, that's it? Oh, he going to get it. 27. He going to get his money. And I got to beg this man to give me effort. See, I can't do anything about it. Look here. How good you shoot, how good you run.

37:53Shannon Sharpe:Some things are just effort. Effort, yeah. How hard you going to play? How many times is it, son? I don't care. Hey, if you make a mistake, make it full speed.

38:04Chad Johnson:because that's that's not necessarily a talent that's something you can bring every night energy and effort you gotta be able to bring that every night

38:12Shannon Sharpe:and his hands that Joe got little tiny tiny tiny hands

38:21Shannon Sharpe:tell me the time Joe you played in the league a long time tell me a guy that got worse hands than DeAndre Aydin in the history of basketball Sometimes them players can be a little too hard for them, huh?

38:34Chad Johnson:Man, damn that, Ocho. Listen, let me tell you something. As a big, that's probably one of your best attributes you can have is a nice set of hands to where you can catch, period, point blank. That's the one thing that was great about playing with Amari Stoudemire, Ocho, when I was in Phoenix. It didn't matter how you threw him the damn ball. He was going to catch it. Boy got some big mitts. You feel me? And when you got guys who can catch, Hey, man, it makes a world of a difference.

39:01Shannon Sharpe:It's not, like I said, I mean, to ask a guy to, I mean, just think about it. A seven-footer. Yeah. Kessler's turning down 140. It's being reported. He's turning down 140. DeAndre Ayton, the deal that the Lakers could sign him for, that should be DeAndre Ayton's deal.

39:23Chad Johnson:What, 140?

39:25Shannon Sharpe:Oh, yeah. 239.1 for five years. If he played the right way up, if he showed up on the court the right way, that's just not him. It hasn't been him. They just get... I mean, you big, they just trying to give you some money, Joe and Ocho. They just trying to give it. If you a big, if you a big, a seven-footer, they trying to give you money.

39:46Chad Johnson:And you're right, but it's hard. It's like you... It's like... It's like I just hired y 'all for this new job, but I got to call y 'all old job to get some positive news. But man, how was Ocho? How was Uncle? And they don't tell me nothing positive here.

40:01Shannon Sharpe:All I know is if I look at you and I see you rating, and you done been on three jobs and all of them give you an F rating, you think I'm about to call you? To do what? Ocho, who you calling if you know they got a bad rating? Right. They got the grade of food. You go to a restaurant, and they got a D. I'm going to walk on pass. Now, I don't know why they got a D, but I'm going to take their word that the food, the people that came by and graded them, they knew what they was talking about. So I don't know if they left the meat out, if they got rats, they got roaches. I don't know if the food was...

40:34Shannon Sharpe:I don't know anything. I just know somebody got a D in the window, I'm walking on pass. That's just me.

40:45Chad Johnson:Thanks.

40:46Shannon Sharpe:Look, I understand references but in this situation, I don't need the references. I got my eyes. I saw him at Portland. when Monte Williams and all those guys and Devin Booker and Chris Paul begging him. I saw him in Portland. They begging him. I saw him in L.A. They're begging him. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah.

41:08Chad Johnson:Yeah.

41:09Shannon Sharpe:I'm good.

41:10Chad Johnson:Yeah.

41:13Chad Johnson:He's still young. I know it's probably, hey, I don't know what's going to happen. I'm going to let him burn in on somebody else's time.

41:22Shannon Sharpe:because in a relationship, Ocho, there are only so many times she going to tell you she want to go out. There's only so many times you going to tell her, baby, you need to get up off that. Oof. It's tough. There's only so many times I ain't finna keep begging you. Yeah. She not finna keep begging you to take out. She not finna keep begging you to do something for her or with her. She's not. Hello. Because if she with you, Ocho, she know she a pretty good thing. If she with you, Joe, she know she pretty good. But if y 'all won't, he will.

42:01Chad Johnson:Hello.

42:02Shannon Sharpe:Hey, O, you ain't going to find nobody like me. Okay. Okay, she won't. She found your punk ass, didn't she? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, you can walk out that door if you want to. Shoot. Huh? What happened? There's only one Ocho. Yeah.

42:23Chad Johnson:Hey, don't get yourself a no-cho. I'm not that my baby, bro. That my baby.

42:29Shannon Sharpe:So I'm just looking at this dude and I'm like, bro, do you realize how this man should be making like 600 million. In today's game, all you gotta do is be decent and play like 15 years, Joe, you walking away with 500 million. After taxes, an NBA player today that's worth anything after taxes should have about$200 million stored up.

42:54Chad Johnson:Oh, easy. Easy. The way they giving out the bag now, look, man, you can get $150 million now with no credentials. You ain't got to come with no all-star appearances, no all NBA. You ain't got to come with none of that. Oh, you got to come with some pretty decent numbers, bro. That's it. Period. That's it. Game different, man

43:22Shannon Sharpe:but we're gonna find out we'll see if LeBron and you look it's been reported that he's gonna you know they're talking they're probably trying to get the numbers right look Mark Waters who owned the Dodgers who bought who purchased the Lakers full ownership we transferred to him at a later date in time I don't know when that is but obviously he's a businessman and he's got a lot of money tied up in the Dodgers when you got Mookie you got Shohei and you got all those Turner and you just signed Tucker you got Yoshi that's a big payroll but they paid it off because they winning he wants to win he wants to win he paid 10 billion for the Lakers 10 billion with a B

44:15Chad Johnson:they're going to have to pay some money for your agency for sure who that Lakers they need defense Joe they need defense they need somebody somebody to play some damn beat outside of Marcus Martin I think

44:30Shannon Sharpe:look and that's the thing if you're going to have a guy that's a little suspect on defense you've got to have at least two to three defenders wing defenders on the court at all times. Right.

44:43Chad Johnson:All the time.

44:43Shannon Sharpe:Go look at the Knicks. What do they have? Josh Hart, Mikael Bridges, OG Ananobi. Mitchell Robinson comes in to replace Cap. You get Landry Schammett playing defense. You go look at OKC. What do they have? With Shea, he's not the greatest defenders, but you got Dort. You got JW. You got Wallace. You got Caruso. You see a reoccurring theme? You look at the Spurs. If they're in Fox, but you got guys like Castle, you got Vassell, you got that alien behind you. You see a reoccurring thing, what's going on here? So if you're a suspect at your point guard, you better have two to three defenders on the court at all times.

45:24Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Because if you don't, especially when it comes to clutch time, what are they going to do? As great as an offensive player is, when they get to clutch time, they put Luka or they put Austin Reeves in the pick and roll every single time.

45:42Chad Johnson:Yep, you're going to be chopped liver. If you can't guard out there on that perimeter and we got to get too much help, you getting beat off the dribble quick because guess what? This is a point guard's league now. Okay, Ocho, it used to be a big man's league. Yep. This is a guard-driven league now. Kind of like the quarterback. Everything revolves around the quarterback. Same thing with the point guard because he facilitates, he makes everybody better. Not only that, he has to be able to score that damn ball nowadays. And with that being said, if you don't have guys who can guard, you're in trouble, bro.

46:17Chad Johnson:The guy's too good. They're just too good nowadays. From the perimeter standpoint, it's too many possessions. The game is played at such a high pace now that, bro, if you ain't got guys who are willing to do the dirty work, it's hard to win. Hey, I got a question, Uncle Joe. Go ahead. Especially when it comes to basketball, right? We're seeing an influx of point guards now being 6 '5", 6 '7", 6 '9", like that. With Jalen Brunson showing that they can get it done, shorter point guards can get it done like they did back in the days, you know, 6 '1", 6 '2", 6 '3". Do you think that opens up the door for the NBA to still look at some of the shorter point guards as well, being that Jalen Brunson just took his team to a championship, or they don't care now about that?

47:01Chad Johnson:Honestly, I don't think they really care too much about it because you got to look at the guys that surround Jalen Brunson. You know what I mean? the OGs, the Bridges, the Hearts. All these guys are blue collar hard working dudes, bro. They gonna do all the dirty work for Brunson to be able to chill. Okay, you go guard Champinney. Yeah, he ain't doing nothing but standing in the corner shooting threes. You feel me? We gonna do all this dirty work, but on offense, we need you to be the engine. We need you to get us going. We need you to have legs down the stretch to be able to close games. They just got a great makeup of a team that Knicks do.

47:35Chad Johnson:And yeah, it's kind of like anything. Like, you've seen with the Warriors. Everybody try to copy the Warriors style, the running gun, having bigs who can shoot the three, who can playmate. Man, this is a copycat league, bro.

47:46Shannon Sharpe:But in 80-year history, how many six-foot guards have led a team to a championship? So are you going to take an isolated incident, or are you going to take an 80-year body of work? Right. See, everybody, oh, Drew, okay. For every short quarterback that's led a team to a championship, in 100-plus years, you got Drew Brees and got Russell Wilson. So in 110 years, you got two quarterbacks. Let's just go back since the merger. We don't need to go all the way back to 1919 when the Acme Packers and all the Bears and all the Steelers came around in 30 and the Giants. Just go back to the merger. I think the merger started in 67.

48:25Shannon Sharpe:Right. How many six-foot quarterbacks or below led a team to a Super Bowl?

48:35Two. Russ and Drew.

48:41Shannon Sharpe:Most of the quarterbacks have been 6 '3 above. How tall is Eli? Eli about 6 '3. Okay, okay, okay. John Elway, I mean, you're getting 6 '2 and a half, 6 '3. Obviously, you get Manning and you get Big Ben Roethlisberger. You got Peyton. I think Joe is 6 '2. Steve Young is about 6 '1. But you start going 6 and below. Yeah. and you're right it's a copycat league it used to be everybody wanted small receivers and then all of a sudden Jerry Rice brought six two ass in and then everybody wanted to get six two of the ball receivers right

49:20so

49:20Shannon Sharpe:yeah are you going to build your team especially for Jalen Brunson it's like when you go back and look at Memphis they built their team for Ja They had Desmond Bain that could guard. They had Dylan Brooks that could guard. They had Triple J that could guard. Right. You see? If you're going to build your team like that, okay, you got a chance. And even though, no, I didn't say, you know, Shea is not a cone. Shea is not a cone, but he's not an elite defender. They built their team with defenders. Right. Shea's normally going to have the weakest offensive guy. I need you to rest, bro. I need you to say some of that energy for the other end.

50:07Shannon Sharpe:That's what they did with Brunson. Man, Champagne ain't doing nothing standing in the corner, man.

50:12Chad Johnson:Yeah. Go call him.

50:16Shannon Sharpe:He ain't going to put it on the floor and take it to the bank. All he's going to do, he's going to spot him and shoot threes, and if you fly by him, he's going to sidestep and reset behind the three and shoot a three. Right.

50:28Chad Johnson:Yeah.

50:30Shannon Sharpe:so it's going to be very very interesting to see how this thing plays out meanwhile the Warriors are prepared to offer LeBron a 15 million non taxpayer mid-level exception per Anthony Slater man that ain't no money that's 7 million dollars in LA in California hold on 15 million what you might be talking about For an appearance in the Bay Area. An autograph signing?

51:02Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, Ocho. That's what I'm saying. Hell, Bruin ain't signing there for the go - Man, please.

51:08Shannon Sharpe:In California, in Miami or Tennessee, you know, somewhere they ain't got no taxes, that might be - Hey, you know, six, six, six, ten, six, three. Hey, that's$11,$12 million. But in California? Right. Well, it's 13.5 % plus 13. Oh, no. And then by the time you put FICA and Medicare, man, no, no, no. They done took 54, 53, 52, 53 % of my money. Hell no.

51:35Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, I don't even see it no damn word. I don't see LeBron taking that money no damn word. 50, nah. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. That man, hey, listen. I think he going to get big money. He probably just do what Jordan did them last year's Uncle Ocho. He just one year me out. One year, 50 million. Damn. 50, Joe? Hey, man, wouldn't surprise me, Ocho. Damn. I don't know. I don't see that man there yet. Maybe 45, Joe. 50, that's... Ocho, do you see the money these dudes making? Yeah, but they all young. We talking, Ron finna be 42. Man, hell, and he the king. He the leading scorer in the NBA history. Every point goes down in history.

52:21Yeah, that's why I said 45. 45 ain't bad. Just knock five men off that. That ain't bad.

52:27Shannon Sharpe:it's going to be very interesting what he does as far as is it a one year deal and guess what we find ourselves right back here in this situation is it a two year deal you know 45, 50 million 60 million dollars what I mean what's the deal because I don't think the Lakers want to be right back in the situation I don't think they're going past three maybe it's one year and an option yeah

52:57Chad Johnson:I don't know. We're going to see.

52:58Shannon Sharpe:I can see a scenario where he played 24. Like he said, as long as my mind is sharp, and that's it. Do I still have the desire to get to the arena five hours early, do all the things that I need to do, get those shots up? Do I still like getting that round-o 'clock tree, get to the hotel, and Mike Macias meets me there, and I get all this stuff taken care of? I mean, he's been doing it this will be his 24th season. We know he's playing this year. Let's set aside potentially 25. We know he's going to play this year. Man, he's been doing this for 24 NBA years. How long have you been doing this in high school?

53:38Shannon Sharpe:Been doing this since he's 17. Yeah.

53:43Chad Johnson:Under the microscope.

53:45Shannon Sharpe:And remember, I've heard a lot of people, a lot of great say it's boring and it's lonely. Yep. most of the time, greatness, you're on that road by yourself. Oh, yeah.

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58:31Shannon Sharpe:Max Kellerman said on the Game Over podcast, if you take SGA off the Thunder and replace it with Jalen Brunson, the Thunder beat the Spurs. Joe, do you agree?

58:42Chad Johnson:No, I don't. I don't agree. I think the Thunder ran into the mishaps of the Spurs because they weren't totally healthy. We know that. Jalen Williams wasn't healthy. A.J. Mitchell got hurt in, what, the second game? I'll go with Joe. You know what I mean? So, you know, you lose two of your bucket getters against a Spurs team like that. Yeah, you're going to be hurting, bro. I just think they wasn't healthy, which is probably why, you know, they weren't able to advance to the finals. I don't believe that, though.

59:21Shannon Sharpe:What you thinking, Ocho? I mean, Jalen Brunson is awesome as he is, but obviously the injuries played a huge toll. The injuries played a huge toll. I mean, we know that. They weren't at full strength, so it's hard to say. I think inserting Jalen Brunson in that place, I think they still do just as well. But if you talk about two different players, two different playing styles, both can get their shots off, they can score. So I think that really doesn't change much from a scoring perspective. Yeah.

59:58Chad Johnson:What you think, huh?

59:59Shannon Sharpe:It's just hard to say. Because every clutch moment that they needed, they got it from Brunson. And if you look at it, with the exception of – and Brunson didn't shoot the best, but when his best was required, they got it. Boy. They didn't always get that from Shea. Yeah. Every game that when Jalen Brunson – he might have been shooting terrible. He might be 5 for 22. He going to end up 8 for 25. because he's going to go three for three when he absolutely got to have it. Yeah.

1:00:35Chad Johnson:Yeah. Well, I think what you have is considering the fact that OKC can't spread the floor like the Knicks can because Hardenstein can't shoot. He's a hardworking utility guy, hustle player, as opposed to Cat, who Wimby has to pay attention to, has to stick to. It's a huge difference. He can't just roam, play that free safety to where he can help everybody like he did in the OKC series. You know what I mean? Cat makes him have to stay honest because he can shoot it. Yeah, Cat won them first two damn games.

1:01:10Shannon Sharpe:And if you think about it, Joe, everybody for the Knicks that they were counting on played great. Now, they might didn't all play great at the same time. Same time, yeah. But like you said, Cat, and then you get Mikael Bridges and you get a Josh Hart, and then you get OG playing consistent with the exception of the last game. and then you get Jalen Bronson. He's like, okay, I'll take it from here.

1:01:32Chad Johnson:Yep. Yep. Complete team, bro.

1:01:36Shannon Sharpe:Complete team. You get Landry Shammott playing extremely well. Mitchell Robinson giving you big rebound, big second chance opportunities. None bigger than the game five when he had back, pushed Wimby up under, got the rebound and kicked it out, and they had to foul.

1:01:50Chad Johnson:Yep. Yep.

1:01:53Shannon Sharpe:Look, Caruso played unbelievable. Kaysom Wallace played unbelievable. But I didn't get that consistency from Chet. Lou Dort.

1:02:06He didn't give you nothing, huh?

1:02:08Chad Johnson:They got to figure it out, man. OKC got the AA. They got to make some room anyway over this. That team is going to look a lot different.

1:02:17Shannon Sharpe:I think so, too. It's going to look a lot different.

1:02:24Oh, yeah. You know who else going to look different? The here. Yeah.

1:02:32Chad Johnson:Oh, Lord. I hope y 'all get Ja, bro. I hope y 'all get Ja. You might have Ja and Giannis. No, that ain't going to happen. Young and Joe, it's a whole lot of riffraff going on with certain outlets. You know, talking about Giannis the Boston and Giannis here and Giannis there. Man, but it's... Every time... I don't want to get myself in trouble, but you know where he going. I don't want to say no more. You know where he going.

1:03:07Shannon Sharpe:Rob Markman You got something to say. Okay. All right. You know, we probably coming out East next year, though.

1:03:20Shannon Sharpe:Pat Bev joined the Reese's advice and said he's taking Jalen Brunson over Allen Iverson. We got a video. Okay. Damn. Who said that? Pat Bev. Remember, he said he's taking James Harden over Dwayne Wade.

1:03:41Chad Johnson:He barely my mans, bro.

1:03:49Chad Johnson:But I'm not sure if I'm taking Brunson over AI. He's saying that simply because he won the championship. Yes. Well, he know it weighs heavy, too, by him saying that. Yeah, he's got some weight to it. Brunson in the conversation now. He showed me a lot this postseason. Yeah, he showed me a lot. But, I mean, I tell you what.

1:04:14Shannon Sharpe:You think Brunson team, the Knicks, beating Shaq and Kobe? Because that's what Allen Labyrinth was up against. Hell nah.

1:04:21Chad Johnson:Nah, nah. They only lost two games that whole playoff run, and one of them was to AI.

1:04:28Shannon Sharpe:Lord have mercy.

1:04:29Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah.

1:04:32Shannon Sharpe:I think when it's all said and done, we'll see where it goes. But we got, like I said, now, Joe, rings are everything. Ring is everything.

1:04:44Yeah.

1:04:47Shannon Sharpe:I mean, I think Scottie Pippen's a phenomenal player. Scottie Pippen's not better than Larry Bird. He's not better than Kevin Durant. He's not better than LeBron James. He's not. He has more rings. He's not a better basketball player than those guys. He's not.

1:05:01Chad Johnson:I agree with you. I agree with you.

1:05:03Shannon Sharpe:But because he has rings, and Jalen Brunson, look, Jalen Brunson could go on. He might get two or three more rings. He might get an MVP, and then we'll have to revisit this conversation. Right. But Allen Iverson was one of the top players in the league. Allen Iverson was a top five player for about three to five years, maybe more.

1:05:25Chad Johnson:He changed the game, bro. On and off the court, Joe. He did, yeah, that's what I'm saying. He changed the old show.

1:05:35Shannon Sharpe:All that stuff that you see, the cornrows, the big, like I said, you couldn't find no 5XTs. He had them.

1:05:42Chad Johnson:The tattoo. The tattoo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He came with all that.

1:05:47Shannon Sharpe:He the one that David Sturgeon, nah, hell nah. I'm tired of y 'all showing up like this here. Hell to the nah. He was hot. Yeah.

1:05:58Chad Johnson:Hey.

1:05:58Shannon Sharpe:That man, that man, he got on some 40 jeans.

1:06:02Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah. And he had to step in. The animals were running through. Doing what they want to out there. They were loose.

1:06:10Shannon Sharpe:Like I said, y 'all remember Tim Duggan showed up and got his trophy with some Bermuda shorts and flip flops. Bad David started looking at him like, I can't believe you did this.

1:06:21Chad Johnson:Hey, man, it used to be so lovely back in the day when I'm speaking like 0-2, 0-3, 0-4, where you could just pull up to the plane, jump right on. They ain't check you with security. they ain't helping. Man, it was, boom, the bus stop right in front of the plane, you hop right on, you can be having, you can wear whatever you want to wear, bro. It was the good days. Damn this.

1:06:43Shannon Sharpe:I like it now. I like to see, you know, I like to see the guys dressed up. I like to see the guys coming down. Now it's a fashion show. Now they're in Paris. Everybody coming to the plane, everybody going to the arena, and you talk about football, basketball, the WNBA, everybody is a part of this now. I like it. You know what? Look, you're a professional. You're a professional. It's okay to be professional. Look, I ain't saying you got to spend a zillion dollars, but I'm saying you could have a nice outfit going to the gym. I mean, excuse me, coming to the game. And look, some guys going to still wear it.

1:07:19Shannon Sharpe:Ant-Man don't care. Ant-Man coming with sweatsuits and his Ant-Man 2s. So y 'all about to forget that.

1:07:30Shannon Sharpe:I like Shea and Russ and LeBron and all them guys coming wearing that stuff. I like to see Chase and Jetta and all those guys, Joe Burr and all these guys coming to the game. I love seeing the WNBA. I love Angel Reese coming to the game and Cameron Brink and Ben and all those young ladies coming in your style. Show your personality. Express yourself. Yes!

1:07:52Chad Johnson:Hey, they got their clothes laid out like they before school.

1:07:56Shannon Sharpe:And them long legs, they be stepping, too. Ooh. You got model height, you ain't step. They be wearing heels, too. I was like, come on, where did it in?

1:08:07Chad Johnson:Hello. You right. You right. You right.

1:08:11Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, them boys were stepping back. Ocho, we got out Ocho. We ain't really, I mean, I came OK. You know, had me little Gucci boots here and there. You know, had the Timbs, you know.

1:08:21Chad Johnson:Yeah.

1:08:22Shannon Sharpe:Oh, you best believe O'Shea be stepping. I'll be stepping right now, though, for sure.

1:08:26Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah. Oh, Joe, I know you'd be cutting up right now, will you, man? Oh, yeah, probably so. Probably so, because back then I was playing, Joe, sometime with the receivers, we would, as a group, we would wear suits. If we say we come in in suits, we would wear suits. Outside of that, Joe, I had my dickies on, Joe. They had a tan pair, a green pair, a gray pair, a black pair. Oh, yeah. That's it. I kept it simple, Joe. Yeah, yeah.

1:08:53Shannon Sharpe:But, you know, look, I'm a big guy. I like seeing professionals be professionals. Man, you should be, bro, stop it. Them people tell you they want you to wear a college shirt to work, you're going to show up with a college shirt. College shirt, yeah, absolutely. I don't know why people want to buck the system. If you don't want to wear that, get your own business, and you get to come like a Zuckerberg with flip-flops and shorts. That's what you want to do. That's the quickest way to have your own dress code is to own your own business. Oh, yeah. And then you get to come as you want to. Yep. But when somebody else tell you this is how they want you to dress on the job, they say khakis and whatever the case may be.

1:09:32Shannon Sharpe:You got to wear khakis and whatever else.

1:09:39Shannon Sharpe:The video made a round of a backup point guard named Tyler Kolek, briefly stopped by police officers who apparently didn't recognize him as a player. Take a look at this video, guys.

1:09:58Damn. He lightweight looked like. He looked like one of the fans that jumped the barricade. He do.

1:10:04Shannon Sharpe:He's been right in. I've seen him on the bench, but I can see if they don't watch, they absolutely think he a fan that jumped the barricade he got in there.

1:10:16Chad Johnson:That's an honest mistake on they part. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, look. He out there jumping around running. Hell, I thought he was too at first. I ain't going to lie to you. bro,

1:10:28Shannon Sharpe:how many white guys they got on the team, too? He don't look like Jalen Brunson. He don't look like Cat. He don't look like none of the ones that normally play. Bro, get your ass out of here. Right, right.

1:10:41Chad Johnson:Hey, they about to put it in there right back over that gate.

1:10:45Shannon Sharpe:Exactly. Exactly. They looking at him like, bro, man, I play with the Knicks. I swear I do. Okay. Knicks ain't got no mascot. So, now, hell now. But, hey, he was having him a good old time. Let the man live. It was, man.

1:11:04Chad Johnson:Hey, they look like they thoroughly enjoyed themselves out there today, boy. Oh, hold on. It ain't over now.

1:11:11Shannon Sharpe:You know, they finna party what? He probably get that. Guess what? He probably get that going to the game, Joe. They look at him like, who you? Bro, you don't play on the team. I ain't never seen you in the game.

1:11:25Chad Johnson:You're probably right. You're probably right. Yeah.

1:11:32Shannon Sharpe:Jalen Brunson spoke at the parade. Let's take a listen to what JB had to say. There's a lot of people who have a lot of opinions. But when you prove them wrong, you really don't have to say shit to them.

1:11:56Nah, they don't deserve it. They don't deserve it. Appreciate y 'all. Thank you.

1:12:05I liked it. Oh, you can't be short and sweet, man.

1:12:08Shannon Sharpe:He's supposed to talk issues. He said, I ain't got to prove y 'all wrong. I just got to prove me right. And then you'll be wrong.

1:12:15Chad Johnson:I ain't got to call no names. None of that. You know who you are. But y 'all know who you are. Absolutely right. Hey, that's dope, man.

1:12:25Shannon Sharpe:I can't believe him. Him winning a title launches him in a whole new stratosphere. I don't even know if he realized what winning that title does at his size in that city, what that's done for his legacy. I don't know if he realized. Probably not right now.

1:12:41Chad Johnson:You know, it's kind of hard when you're right in the moment, you know, to really, really, to really understand what you've done. But after some time goes by, maybe even a couple of weeks, maybe even a month, fellas, you know, he'll probably think back and be like, damn, man, we really won an NBA championship.

1:12:56Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Because it's so surreal when it's happening and you just caught up in it, you with your boys, y 'all laughing, y 'all joking like, man, we having a good time. X, Y, and Z. And then when you get by yourself, you're like, man, now everybody call you champ. What's up, champ? What's up, champ? What's up, champ? You walk into a room, I don't got to take a backseat. I got a championship. I'm the finals MVP.

1:13:25Chad Johnson:Not only do I have a championship and I'm the finals MVP, but I did it in New York, fellas. I did it in the Mecca. In the Mecca, bro. What is it, 53 years? Uncle Ojo? 53. Yeah. 1973. Hey, bro. Brunson's stamped. He's stamped, bro. He's stamped. Mm-hmm.

1:13:49Shannon Sharpe:That's dope. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I had an opportunity to meet his dad. It's unbelievable. Like I said, as a matter of fact, oh, I was at Atlanta when I met his dad. I was at dinner, and I met the other guys, West and another guy. I forget his name. Was it Rose?

1:14:12Chad Johnson:Leon Rose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, him and World Wide West, they don't want to put this team together. Yeah. I meant both of them.

1:14:24Man.

1:14:26Shannon Sharpe:Yesterday, Jordan Woods was asked about the rumor no-sex rule the New York Knicks players were allegedly encouraged to follow during the 10-week playoff run. The request reportedly came from the very top with team owner James Dolan wanting players to fully lock in during such a critical stretch. Jordan made it clear. She and Kat didn't exactly stick to playing. which what we talked about. You know, ain't nobody sticking to that plan, huh? It's easier to stick to the plan if you're like a boxer or you're like a fighter when you go away and they're not there. But if I'm there, I'm walking around, you walking around, you get out the shower, I see that water glistening off your body,

1:15:07Chad Johnson:it's going to go down. It's going to go down. It's going to go down. Yeah. Yeah. You need that reset, that reset away from practice, that reset away from all the media, all the stuff going on. Hey, man, I remember being in college, and Coach Nolan Richardson was telling us about, I think it was a time when he was playing. So, you know, this was back in the day. They would put stuff in their food. They would put stuff in their food to where their stuff wouldn't even get – it wouldn't even – Yeah, put that salt – they put that – they used to call it salt, Peter. Yeah, I can't remember the name he said, but he said, Your jump wouldn't even get hard.

1:15:49Yeah.

1:15:50Chad Johnson:Yeah. Yeah. So you wouldn't have sex when you was competing. Well, you could.

1:16:00Shannon Sharpe:Hey, boy, you'd have to pour the gun at the beginning of the dog.

1:16:07Shannon Sharpe:Real dog jump. Tell you that.

1:16:15Shannon Sharpe:Like I said, if you go away, Ocho, like them boxers or people go away to train, you go six, eight weeks, you at a camp, ain't no women there. No, no, no. So it's easy. I'm not saying it's easy. It's easier. Yeah. Because the temptation is not there. but if you around oh I'm laying there and she's snuggling she back up next to me huh?

1:16:42Chad Johnson:you already know it

1:16:43Shannon Sharpe:she got a t-shirt on you know that the best lingerie is a t-shirt no panties that's the best lingerie what I'm supposed to do yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Mr. Dolan I understand what you're saying but yeah it sounds good Look, I'm superstitious as well. Now, had we – look, we wore the same once we were in the Super Bowl that year. We wore the same – everybody wore the same suit. So, the last – we won that game in Kansas City. We wore that suit to Pittsburgh. We wore that suit to play Green Bay in San Diego. But I don't know how – I don't know. And I'm a very disciplined and I'm very structured. But, boy, I don't know about that.

1:17:30Shannon Sharpe:I don't know about that rule.

1:17:33Chad Johnson:Yeah. Hey, you got to be different, boy. Locked in.

1:17:39Shannon Sharpe:I mean, how many times the guy is going to go to the bar and knows that, you know, hey, he likes alcohol. He going to go to the bar. For 10 weeks, sit at the bar.

1:17:52Shannon Sharpe:Really? Guy got to get a problem. Ocho Joe, he going to go to the casino and sit at the blackjack table. He going to sit at the crap table. I mean, come on. Let's be real. Like I said, if we go away, no problem. As a matter of fact, just to make sure, hey, don't send me no pictures. Hey, don't be talking. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. Blah, blah, blah. How the dog? Good. Hey, kid. If you're married, hey, kid's good. All right. I'm calling at you. But to be walking around, man, please. Because there's going to be a time that you're going to look back and wish you could. There's going to be a time.

1:18:37Shannon Sharpe:And there's going to be longer than 10 weeks. It might be 10 months. It might be 10 years. When all you can do is think about what you used to be able to do. I'm good, Dave. We do that right now. Hey, Joe, you be thinking about, man. Man, I remember I used to get up and down this cold. hey I can run up and down this coat 7, 8, 9, 10 times let 3, 4, 3's go get down lay the ball up get it back do all that all that is just a figment of your imagination yeah yeah yeah

1:19:17Chad Johnson:damn I'm going to get back to it though

1:19:24Shannon Sharpe:well you better get back to it for Ocho for Ocho, because you need to go ahead and get that leg back strong, Joe.

1:19:29Chad Johnson:Oh, oh, oh. If I'm going to do nothing else with tears in my eyes, you and Ocho look at me with tears in my eyes. Yeah. When I get this leg right, Ocho, I promise you. Chat, y 'all hear me out. Boy, you going to be, I'm coming to Miami, you going to be the first person I come see. I tell you what, them tears probably going to keep flowing if you play me. Nah, nah, nah. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. We talk about a mean demonstration on here with tears in my eyes, homie. You gonna put it down on the joke? Hey, he gonna be crying. If his ass, if he wanna go viral, damn it, he going viral that day.

1:20:06Yeah.

1:20:07Chad Johnson:Hey, Joe, it's so funny. It's so funny. I got a, I got a Mexican, Mexican homeboy just like you. What you mean? What you mean? Huh? He got, he got one leg. What y 'all got? One leg.

1:20:26Ocho

1:20:28Chad Johnson:Ocho You know what I know we have a good time But I really ain't the one to play with I'm just gonna keep it 100 with you I really ain't When I look at you It's a game to me Joe Hey Joe when I see you Joe You like an Xbox That's all I need See for a guy like me Ocho I just need one thing to piss me off And once I get pissed off It's a wrap It's a wrap And he pissing you off right now, huh, Joe? He pissing me off.

1:20:57Shannon Sharpe:That man, Joe Ocho, that man said you got him pissed to the highest level of pissivity. Hey, the funny thing about it, too, you know what I did before every game? 11, 12 years straight, I tried to piss my opponents off. I tried to piss them off because I want you. So you tried. So this is your tactic. This is what Ocho is known for. I want you as mad as possible. So when I do your ass in, you understand there's nothing you can do. There's no training. There's no film. there's nothing you do to stop me

1:21:24Chad Johnson:from keeping me off your way. It's going to be, see when I'm pissed off I ain't out of control. I have a control rage. You know what I'm saying?

1:21:34Shannon Sharpe:I have a very, very control

1:21:36Chad Johnson:rage where I know and understand how to keep things in the pocket and really do damage. I'm really not what you're looking for, Ochoa. I'm just going to keep it 100. Hey, what you're describing to me it sounds like you playing a video game. That ain't real life. That ain't real life. I got a set of skills, a peculiar set of skills that over the time that I've mastered. That you've acquired over a finite period of time. Yeah, yeah. I'm about to unleash him. He don't even know what he's getting himself into because I laugh and I joke and I entertain. Yeah, yeah. He take you for a joke. He ain't even seen the other side.

1:22:17Yeah. You ain't seen the other side joke.

1:22:19Chad Johnson:All right. Well, I'm looking for it. I'm looking for the other side. Hey, Joe, I'm going to flip your ass inside out. Okay, well, I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to see it with your tough ass. I want to see it.

1:22:29Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I want to see it. You going to see it? But, Joe, you got to get in the leg. I mean, you almost 100 pounds of pressure less on the left and the right.

1:22:40Chad Johnson:Unc, I'm working every day. I'm going to get there. Don't even worry about that. I'm going to get there. Hey, he's been working on that leg for about a damn year, and I ain't trying to hit that shit no more, man. It ain't been but 10 months It been 10 months bro Two more months is a year Two more months I'm going to be right What the hell you talking about Alright

1:23:02Shannon Sharpe:You rehabbing how many days a week You rehabbing two or three or five Every day he rehabbing

1:23:09Chad Johnson:Every day It's so funny He rehabbing just to be back and rehab When I'm done with him Okay Chat I promise you I promise you. Hey, look, if I don't put down a mean demonstration, boy, something wrong. You hear me? I promise you. Something wrong already. Hey, something wrong. You think you could do something with me in any sport, let alone... Damn, Joe. I'm better than you at your own motherfucking job. You think so? And I'm a hooper, Joe. Huh? Ooh.

1:23:40Shannon Sharpe:Wow.

1:23:41Chad Johnson:Boy, a lot don't care.

1:23:42Shannon Sharpe:I'm ready, man. I know. I was thinking he'd get you in football, Joe, but he talking about... You think he get me? Hold on, hold on. What make you think he get me in football? You think because he get... Damn, Ocho.

1:23:53Chad Johnson:He can't get me no damn football.

1:23:57Shannon Sharpe:Hey. Hey, Joe. Ocho. Joe say, hey, all he got to do is put the hands on you. Because, you know, Joe got the long arms. What he going to do with that? Tell the truth. What he going to do with that? Hey, the same thing everybody else with long arms got done to. Hey, I'm going to push his little ass down in the dirt.

1:24:11Chad Johnson:He ain't going to be in the dirt. Damn. Yo, ain't nobody finna touch me off that line, Joe. Stop.

1:24:16Shannon Sharpe:Joe, so, Joe, you go, hey, what you gonna do? You gonna do the creep? Hey, you gonna pretend like you walking off in prison? Jam? Yeah, he gonna jam? You gonna stab? What you gonna do? Open up? I'm gonna mix it up.

1:24:25Chad Johnson:I ain't gonna never get it. Ah, he ain't gonna mix it up. I'm gonna give him a little bit of everything.

1:24:30Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, hey, he say, hey, you know, hey, we saw what Sneed did. Sneed did Tyreek? Yeah. You remember that, Ocho? Quick jam in the slot? Step back and can't fall, yeah. But that ain't gonna work. Oh, or he got the stab. Hey, bam, bam. Hey, Unc, as soon as he stabbed, I'm grabbing that wrist and pulling through. I ain't worried.

1:24:51Chad Johnson:When I put my hands on him, when I grab him, I'm going to lift his little ass up off the ground. Damn. Damn, Joe.

1:25:00Shannon Sharpe:Lift his little ass up. Yeah. I mean, because you got five yards. Yeah, hello. Hello.

1:25:08Chad Johnson:You got five yards. And you know he don't like to be touched. He ain't physical. He don't want that. He don't want that contact. Damn. Ocho, that man said you're not physical.

1:25:18Shannon Sharpe:You ain't physical. He said you don't want that contact. Ocho? Come on up there with your bad self then. I tell you that. Matter of fact, the first rep, I'm going to just run right through you. That ain't possible. Just to set the tone to let you know. Hold on, Ocho. You going to run on the top of him? Run right through him. He think I'm going to shake. I'm running right through him. Come on, man.

1:25:42Chad Johnson:Keep it 100, bro. Keep it 100. Come on. I don't know. I don't know about that, Ojo. I mean, Joe say 250 right now. What did that mean? What did I tell you? If he 250, he's slow. His feet going to be moving his semen. I'm 6 '8". I should be about 250, Ojo. And that 6 '8 don't mean nothing, Jolly Green Giant? I don't see that. I don't see that, Joe. Listen, I'm not under them other little giant turkeys you be playing, Joe. I'm not one of them.

1:26:16Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, it's different over here, Joe. You know where I'm from? I don't know, Ocho. You better get your SWAT game. You better get your hands ready because I don't know you ain't did a whole lot of SWATing lately.

1:26:25Chad Johnson:Listen, Joe, that's cookies. He thinks because he's been out there with them high schoolers. I've been out killing the high schoolers. High school? High school? Yeah, them kids you was out there working with. Those are premier college receivers. They high schoolers. And NFL receivers. Huh? Joe say he a DB, though. I do it to everybody, bro. Joe say he a DB. Not only am I a DB, but you already know he damn sure can't guard me. You know he can't guard me. Hey, hey, um.

1:26:59Shannon Sharpe:Oh, Joe, Joe say he want the ball in the red zone. He say just put it up. Man, what that man going to do? Let me tell you, hey, um. If Joe is a DB, his Stanford definitely burned. that's what it gonna be he definitely burnt you get out there in front of me with that Joe Joe said hey Joe said the red zone he mopsing you every time Chad know that hey he not gonna get off the line all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna jump jamming you gonna free you gonna quick him quick grab him right up in between here right in between here. He gonna be, hey, he holding, he holding. Nah, I got five yards to do this. You got five yards.

1:27:46Chad Johnson:Chad, y 'all gonna get to see it, I promise you. Y 'all gonna get to see it. Trust me. Hey, you been saying that for 10 months, Joe. I'm about to, I done, I done, I done, I done, I done stopped. Nah, nah, you ain't. Nah, you ain't. And then, now all of a sudden, now he hurt. Okay, here we go. Okay. Hey, he ducking smoke, huh? Oh, my knee hurt. Child, please.

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