Best of NBA News Part 1: STOP HATING on Bam's 83! Superman TOP 10? & Jokic better than MJ!

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24:20Shannon Sharpe:Lenovo, Lenovo.

24:26Shannon Sharpe:They understood the assignment. Ain't nobody have a problem with it. Bam, teammates understood. Spoh told them, let's see how far he can take it. I'd have been pissed if they'd have took him out. I ain't going to lie to you, Joe and Ocho. I'd have stayed the whole game because now I'm going to try to get 90. there's a minute and 24 seconds left Joe I'm gonna try to get 90 I ain't lying might well stay in there the whole game don't just settle for 83 you saying keep going I had a conversation I had a conversation with Ozzie and Brian Billett about Jamal Lewis Jamal Lewis had 295 yards Ocho and they took him out of the game yeah you mean to tell me y 'all can't let that man get five yards if somebody break 300 I want to be the first NFL player to rush for 300 yards in the NFL game.

25:16Shannon Sharpe:They took the man out with like five, six minutes left in the ball game. I don't care. 300? Do you understand what 300 mean Ocho in an NFL game? Oh, absolutely. Hey, listen. Even the Saquon Barkley thing, when he could have run a back record, and look, it ain't no giving you're going to get back there. He didn't have... As you can see, the next year, you see them? Yes! Yeah. Yeah. You got to take advantage of those moments. We had the same situation, Ocho and Joe, with TD to get 2 ,000. TD needed like 177 yards last game of the season. We got everything sewn up. Hey, the Lions say we want to get it.

26:02Shannon Sharpe:Say we want to be in the record books. All right, let's go. Let's go get it. I think he went and got 187. damn yes but bro history history i i still think about it today because if you remember uh uh ocho adrian peterson broke jamal's record he ran for 296 that was his rookie year if you break my look here if you if you go for 301 i'm good but guess what ocho i was the first guy to rush for 300 yards in an NFL game. In an NFL game. Look, his record is 550, 52, 50-something yards. The first, there's something about the first. People gonna come behind you. I don't know who's the first person to have a diamond album.

26:59Shannon Sharpe:But guess what, Ocho? I was the first. There's been a lot of diamond albums. Mariah Carey got a couple. Whitney, Michael Beyonce I was the first like I said if I'm bam I got 83 I ain't lying Chad I ain't coming out I'm trying to get 90 I ain't gonna lie I'm trying to get 90 the first certified diamond album was Michael Jackson's Thriller really bless you wait yeah thank you the first album Certified Diamond 10 million plus copies by RIAA awarded in 1984 were Michael Jackson's Thriller Certified 20 million Fleetwood Mac's Rumors 12 million and Saturday Night Fever soundtrack 11 million that was the first but Michael done sold about 100 million copies so that thing 10 times Diamond ain't nobody beating that cause they don't first of all they down they do what Spotify is streaming now.

28:08Shannon Sharpe:So you're not buying no hard copies. It was a thing back in the day, Ocho, to actually go buy the hard copy. You could listen to it. You put the headset on, put it on, they let you listen to it. You go to Lil' Mom and Pop or you go to Tower Records and you could actually listen to the album. Like, yeah, I like that. Okay, I'm going to get this. Or you could have a go to Lil' Mom and Pop Shop and they would make you a cassette. They'd make you an eight track. Yeah. I ain't got no problem. And people are like, well, they was filing. Okay.

28:42Shannon Sharpe:Did anything happen in the game that's not a part of the game? Guess what they do every night in the game, Ocho and Joe? File. Were they filing, Bam? They didn't have to file him. They filed him. So he go to the free throw line and he made 36 of 43. I don't know what to tell you. Hey, listen. if I'm on the defensive team man I don't know how this man finna get 83 if he had 31 in the first quarter Ocho first off Ocho my defense my awareness gonna turn up so high I'm gonna start denying man you're not finna 83 I've been in the game the highest I've been in the game Dame Lilla this time I was playing in Utah we played against the Blazers when he was in Portland he gave us like 62 damn Look, look.

29:31Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I know, Ocho. He was cooking. We couldn't, I'm talking about, but these three, you know, I'm talking about everything. We couldn't contain him in the pick and roll. He going by our guards. He just getting what he want to. So, in this same game, bro, I go over 20 ,000 points for my career. I'm thinking to myself, say, I already knew this coming to the game. I needed, like, 13 points to go for 20K. So, I went on and got mine out the way. First half, I went on and got mine out the way, Ocho. Man, this joker done went from 62. I'm thinking to myself, how in the hell am I going to get the ball?

30:00Shannon Sharpe:This dude went for a career high of 62. Lo and behold, after the game, man, the ball boy brought me the ball. Dame told him to bring it to me. I thought that was cool. So it's like, you know, I thought that was pretty cool on Dame part. But we've seen Dame explode like that. Dame got a 70-point game. Dame could have got – because I remember calling him. I said, bro, why you didn't – I said, why you didn't go for 80? He's like, Sharp, I was trying to get 80. He said, man, you saw they started doubling. hey they were leaving other men wide open they were doubling and tripling him in the back corner but I think he ended up with like 71 72 I called him I said bro you gotta get 80 he said man I was trying and he was cooking and so the thing is Joe I think the biggest thing Ocho and Joe is that who did it you're thinking somebody that's a score that's gonna get a number like that because when you see numbers like that you see David Thompson or you see Luka or you see somebody with 70, those are scores.

31:00Shannon Sharpe:Bam is not his score. Yeah. And he got 83 of all people. Yeah. That's why everybody's so shocked. Shocked. Yeah. I'm sitting here. I'm looking across my phone. I'm like, he got what? A buddy of mine texted me. Said Bam got 31 in the first quarter. I said, he'll probably end up with like 50, 55. Right. He said, well, he got 40. He texted me back and said, we got 43 at the half. I said, well, let's readjust that. So let's, okay, go get at least 60. Because I'm thinking now, if you get 10 and 10, that's 20, that's 63. He said, well, he got 62 at the half. I'd like 62 and three quarters? I said, well, 80 is in play now.

31:47Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And I'm down.

31:53Shannon Sharpe:He sent me back. He like 81. And then all of a sudden it started bubbling again. And you know, like another. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, well, damn. 83? I don't care how you cut or slice it, fellas. That's impressive, man. Oh, yeah. That's impressive. 83 points, yo. Look, look. Yeah, listen. Because you know what, Uncle Ocho? You think about it. He really took. If he shot 43 free throws and 43 shots. He took 86 shots. You got to be in shape to do that, man. Hey, you think he played the next game or do you rest after that? No, he playing. He playing tonight. He playing tonight. What did he have tonight?

32:37Shannon Sharpe:About 20? I think he... I don't even think he had that for real. They won, though. They beat the Bucs. I think he had like 17. I think he had like 17, Joe. Mm-hmm. Hey, Joe. 21. He ended with 21. Okay. Hey, Joe. What's up? Hey, they canceled the Magic City thing, man. I know, bro. They still got the gang T.I. performing at half. I still got the tickets now. What you... Oh, I'm coming. I ain't... Boy, I'm coming. What you mean? Oh, okay. Okay. I thought we were a lot there, twin. Yeah, I done bought my little ticket off of Spirit. I'd be there. Yeah, I got you, man. We good. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you sure you don't want to join us at the game?

33:21Shannon Sharpe:No. I got surgery, man. He can limp out there. Nah, he need to get right so I can get him in that cornhole. Get him in that cornhole. There you go. Hey, there you go. There you go. I just said get him in the cornhole. He want the cornhole. I want Mike to get back in there. You know, I know he be at home practicing in the backyard when he out there with the dogs. I already know what's going on.

33:51Shannon Sharpe:I'm trying to show you something, guys. Because people... What you got, man? Pulled a zero in on that. When I say my buddy was texting me. Who you got? Could y 'all see that? Not really. Damn, bro. I said no. I said no one. And then he put 81. And then soon it started bubbling again, 83. He did. He said 83. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Guys, y 'all think people, I know, look, I know the internet because you got AI and people lie so much. Bro, I ain't got to lie. What do I get? I just want to know, Chad. Tell me what, to the guy that wrote, tell me what I get out of my line. Oh, Troy, and I did, I got another famous number.

34:41Shannon Sharpe:I got a Justin Timberlake's number in my phone too. Okay, okay. I was looking like, well, damn, I forgot I got JT. But I think that's the biggest thing. But check this out, Joe. Gordon Hayward said, I think Bam is one of the best two-way players in the league at his position. But he's not a scorer, right? So for him to break Kobe's record, I don't think it's great for the league. I think it kind of highlights how they're already struggling. It kind of feels like a pickup game when you're watching. and for him to shoot 43 free throws and 22 threes when that's not what he does, it almost feels like, and again, the Wizards too, with all the teams tanking, it kind of makes it feel not legit.

35:23Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, Joe? You see what I mean, Joe? Hey, hey, hey, hey, man, hey. Like my grandma said, if you ain't got nothing good to say, don't say nothing at all. Thank you. Nah, for real, don't say nothing at all, man. Stop trying to diminish what this man has done. We got a lot of people hating on him that I wouldn't expect the hate to be coming from. Thank you. You know what I'm saying? Like, 83 is 83, bro. Like, unless he took 80 shots. You know what I'm saying? Like, the man, he had it going, man. He had a good night. Regardless if he shot 43 free throws. So what? To get 83 points in the game, man.

35:55Shannon Sharpe:Did they file him? The question is, I want to know, Ocho, Joe, did they file him? Were they filed? Gordon Hayward, did anybody else say he shot 43 free throws? Did they foul him? That is the question. Because last I checked, when Dr. Naismith wrote it, he wrote fouls in there. And if you went over a certain number, you got to shoot free throws. Or if you were in the act of shooting, you shot free throws. Or if you had five fouls. So the question is, were they filing Bam? Yes or no? Yeah, they were fouling They could not do nothing with that man Do you hear me? I'm talking about Uncle Ocho The man was in his bag Like I knew he had a nice little handle You know what I mean?

36:46Shannon Sharpe:I knew he had a nice He looked like I'm talking about the way he was coming down Shooting threes, getting in his bag I'm like, hold on Thank you, I said the same thing I said the same thing when they showed it Because they showed Somebody, I think, what you call them They showed all 31 of his points in the first quarter on Twitter, X. And I'm like, well, damn, bam. Hold up. How you come on and take three dribbles past half court and pull up from three? That ain't your game. But when you in, Joe, just like when you had those back-to-back 200-yard game, when you in that zone, ain't nothing to do.

37:18Shannon Sharpe:You in there. Hey, look, look, look. I'm like, hold on, bro. You been teasing us. You got all this in your bag. You give us 83. Come on, man. Like, you know. But what did he say? What did he say, Joe? He said the same thing. I think Bam is one of the best two-way players in the league at his position, but he's not a scorer. You see? Because of who did it. If Dame Lillard get this record, if Steph Curry, James Harden, Luka Doncic, somebody that's known for scoring, Kevin Durant, I don't think we got this. It's expected. But because it's Bam. What was Bam high this year? Bam high this year might be 30.

37:58Shannon Sharpe:And to go from a high 30 to add 53 to that is just crazy. Yeah, it came out of nowhere. And you look at the guys because you look at the guys that got those numbers, those guys are scorers. Everybody that's up there, Wilt was a scorer. Wilt averaged 30 and 23 for a career. You look at James Harden, it's known as a scorer. You look at David Thompson was a scorer. Michael Jordan high was 69, a score. Colby's high, 81, score. You look at guys that Luka Doncic is a score. Dame Lillard is a score. We look at Bam, we think at Bam as a two-way player. He'll get you somewhere 15 to 20. Ain't going to get you somewhere between 8 and 12 rebounds.

38:45Shannon Sharpe:That's what he is. Great two-way player. Can play defense, can play on-ball defense, can play help side defense, can rebound the basketball. It's just so unlike him. anybody him Joel Embiid is a score we don't look at Bam as a score and so that's what's throwing people off but it happens sometimes guys have out about their experiences look at Flipper if somebody said well who got the most receiving yards in a single game Mocho they're gonna say Megatron they're gonna say Randy Moss Jerry Rice T.O. it's Flipp little old Flipp 6 foot 180 you went crazy you went crazy I ain't losing no sleep over it hell I been watching it I watched it I was like damn cause you don't know but I ain't coming out I'm gonna try to get 90 keep doing what y 'all doing that game would have just been ending

39:56Shannon Sharpe:Joe Ocho you 7 points away from 90 I mean you think can you imagine if that dude would have got 90 now I want somebody to get 90 points for whatever reason it just feels strange but I feel like it can happen you know you just that first quarter obviously gotta be special you know what I'm saying that first quarter special if you can get 26 30 points in the first in the first quarter yeah then you think like okay boom at half if I can have 43 42 45 at half yeah you got you got a good chance bro I know I'm getting 50 Ocho yeah it's like it's like you remember when Tyreek Tyreek had those 200 yards in the first in like in like five catches against Tampa yeah I was like oh yeah he about to break this I'm thinking and he about to break the record.

40:51Shannon Sharpe:You got 200 and you got a whole half to go? So I'm just knowing, you know, it's like anything. You get going and you're just like, oh, yeah, it's one of those days. And you just, look, I understand. Y 'all can be mad all you want to. Guess what? I'm in the record. And look, there might be somebody and somebody might break Wilt's record. And there might be somebody get 90 and push me down to three. And somebody might push me down. I might at one point in 50 years from now, I might be 10. But this is what I know. I scored 83 points in an NBA game. Man, that's, that's, that's, that's. Anybody that got something to say?

41:33That.

41:34Shannon Sharpe:Hey, that's nasty words.

41:40Shannon Sharpe:Michael Porter Jr. said Nikola Jokic is the greatest of all time. People will say Michael Jordan just to agree, but they haven't watched film. They'll just say it to agree with everyone else. For me, with my two eyes and from what I've seen, I'm going to say Nikola Jokic is the best player that I've ever seen. From what I've seen today to day, and I haven't seen anybody as dominant as Jokic. Well, that's saying a lie. But who said that joke? His ex-teammate. Jokic's ex-teammate, Michael Porter Jr. He played for the Brooklyn Nets. But see, that's what happens, like you said, with his eyes. He said with his eyes, so he didn't see Kareem.

42:19Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, out of sight, out of mind, which you ain't seen. He ain't see Kareem. He ain't see Moses Malone. He ain't see Larry Bird. He ain't see Magic. He ain't see Jordan. He didn't. He didn't see that. No. I can't blame him for saying what he's seen with his own two eyes, but that's what happens with youth. Because you haven't seen it, you don't think it happened. It's on film. When people turn to telehealth or weight loss, they're looking for real support. That's why more people are choosing orderlymeds.com. Orderly Meds connects you with real doctors and access to proven GLP-1 medications like semaglutide and terzeptatide.

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46:18Shannon Sharpe:Everybody, everybody. That's the highlight. I'm old enough to remember Kareem. I'm old enough to remember Kareem. Like I said, go back and look at Kareem numbers when he first got to Milwaukee. And when he first got to L.A., look at his numbers. He was giving you 33, 34, and 16, 17 for a season. He didn't come to all-time leading scorer for no reason. And the third leading rebounder for no reason. A six-time MVP for no reason. Sky hooking you to deal. He has the most unstoppable. Look, we done seen everybody perfect. KD took Dirk one-legged step back. You don't see how many people hit Jordan turnaround from Kobe to LeBron to this one.

47:07Shannon Sharpe:Tell me the person you've seen consistently throw that sky hook. And I'm not talking about the end of the shot clock. That's a hard shot to replicate. Ain't nobody doing that sky hook, boy. That's really the only shot. And he wasn't throwing it from two feet. He threw it from 15, 18 feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

47:30Shannon Sharpe:Cash. Yeah. You couldn't stop it. You couldn't stop it. You told. Shh. Man, the game changed so much. It has. It has. It has. It's a different game now. And I'm not looking. I've been a Nikola Jokic fan. Everybody can know. Y 'all know I've been a Jokic fan. I've been a Luka fan basically since they got to the league. And it's going to be hard. It's going to be hard if he were to get another championship or two for Yoke to say he's not a top-ten player. It just is. Yeah. Because he's going to have championships. He's already got three MVPs. He's going to be top three for MVP for the next three, four years.

48:13Shannon Sharpe:Now he messed around and get another one. He got four. He got a couple championships. He got three. I wonder if it's because, you know, big men, they kind of hard to market. You know, outside of – You got to get me the ball, Joe. Yeah. The big man never get no credit. Nah. We forget about Will. We forget about Mr. Russell. We forget about Kareem. The big man ain't going to never get no trouble. Nah. Somebody got to get in the ball. Yeah. When you got him that ball, he was hell, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah. Or is it because the game doesn't look, you know, flamboyant enough when you're playing through your bigs, you know, versus the perimeter guys, they're going to razzle, dazzle you, cross you over, step you back.

48:55Shannon Sharpe:you know that's why they get all the sales when it comes to apparel and things of that sort but you never see a big man really outside of shack who who probably sold a lot of shoes outside of that you don't really see big man with with shoe deals like that no because big they don't they don't they're not fancy they don't i mean look at tim duncan they call him the fundamentals he ain't do nothing had the same expression on his face just buzzing everybody's ass

49:23Shannon Sharpe:I mean, he ain't do nothing fancy. And he ain't have no finger roll. All he just glans. I'm like, man, damn. Sometimes I wish the backboard wasn't there. I'm like, damn, he going up the backboard all the time and making that shot. I'm telling you, man. He could, shh. Damn, you bring my half flashbacks thinking about them. That man stopped me from getting a ring. I could have got me one. Damn, Tim Duncan ad. But that's the way it is Because when you think about it Will got 24 ,000 Rebounds Y 'all do realize that man averaged 24 Rebounds for a career No, no, no Do y 'all realize that? That man averaged 24 Rebounds for a career It don't even sound real The man never had a season With less than 17 rebounds In a season.

50:14Shannon Sharpe:That's crazy He once had a season he averaged 44 and 27 That was after the year he averaged 50 and 25 Cause y 'all say y 'all thought I was bulljiving Just so I'm not bulljiving I'm gonna put a 44 and 27 on you Hey Wimby on that trajectory I'm talking about to where like I'm saying I think he gonna be able to dominate Uncle Ocho I do too And when he really fill out to become who he's gonna be because he ain't be, what, 23, 22? Yeah, something like that. Damn. Bro, he got a long way to go, bro. Boy, at about 25, 26. He going to be here. If he keeps growing, yeah. Just get a little stronger in your lower body.

51:01Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And he figure that part out, it's going to be a wrap. You think he going to develop like Giannis? Like get big like that? Nah. He ain't going to get big like that. Giannis was skinny like that too now Yeah he was He was Yeah but that's a lot more to fill out Yeah I don't see it with me I think he gonna get a lot stronger on Ocho He might get him He might get him a little girth on there But man Just so Just so Just so people can't move him You know try to play through his body And move him off his spot Yeah, but he's People talk about Women develop the sky hook Man, don't let that man develop no sky hook Hell, you couldn't block Kareem What the hell you gonna do with a man 7-4, 7-5 throw the sky hook From 9 feet high

52:02Nah,

52:05Shannon Sharpe:but look I get it, because you look at Yoke And the stuff that he's doing We've never seen a big man This skilled offensively that can score the basketball, can assist the basketball. There have been very few bigs that they ran the offense through. We've seen point forwards, but they run the offense through him. Yeah. He's going to average another triple-double this year. Yeah. I think it's the grace that he plays with Arcan Ochoa, how he makes the game look so easy, so simple. Like, you know, it don't even seem like he really out there trying that hard if I'm being 100 with you. You know, when I watch him play, it's like, Because if you give him one-on-one coverage, he going to pick whoever that is, Gardner, he going to pick him apart so quick.

52:46Shannon Sharpe:And it's like then if you double him, he always looking for the open man. He's a pass first big. Who can score? You know what I mean? So it's fun to watch him work. And he going to be hard to stop too, man. That's why I say the West is so tough because by the time whoever comes out of the West, they going to be so beat up. because from the first round all the way into the finals, boy, you're going to have headhunters on you. You got your hands full. And the thing is, he's on pace, Joe, to lead the league in assists again. You know, Wilt did it many, many years ago, but this guy's leading the league in assists with double digits, which is crazy.

53:31Shannon Sharpe:It don't make no sense, man. It's crazy. It don't make no sense. Like I said, his touch around the basket is second to none. I've seen a lot of bigs. I mean, so we go back to the mid-70s and come forward, I've never seen a big with that kind of touch. No, I ain't either. I ain't either. I ain't either, Ocho. So I think for them, it's all about how healthy they can get or how healthy Gordon could get because he's the one guy who can definitely help Murray and Jokic. Yeah, and get Watson back. Yeah, and get Watson back. They got to get them dudes back healthy. so they get them back they get those guys back here it's gonna be very interesting because you know look come playoff time murray and and and yoke they're gonna be murray and yoke is gordon when gordon gave you that third option yeah yeah he gave you that third option he gonna be tough he gonna be he gonna be he gonna he gonna be tough he gonna be tough they're gonna be tough to beat yeah um because yoke you know you don't know what do you do you let him get 50 or do you let him get 25-30 with 20 rebounds and 15 assists.

54:39Shannon Sharpe:Oh my God. Because you're at his mercy. Like you said, they don't have one guy that can stop him. You got to bring the double. You got to bring help. And it just come now anytime a guy gets double, Joe, and you know this, it's up to the guy. If they're knocking down shots, you're just like, well, F it. We'll do the next game. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you don't come, he's going to punish him. If you do come, he's going to kick it, and the guy's knocking down shots. Yeah, you got to pick your poison. That's the Lululu situation, huh? Yeah. Hey, that's why they, you know, a lot of teams starting to be physical with a lot of these guys too.

55:19Shannon Sharpe:You know, have them crying and whining to the referee. Got you trying to wear them down. Like, man, we know we ain't going to stop you, But if we can frustrate you and have you teed off out here to where you get a couple of ignorant fouls and you have to go sit down, then we've done just as good a job. You know what I mean? Yeah. So we'll see. The one thing we do know, he has at least five more years. Let's see what his numbers are. Let's see what he's done. Has he won more championships? Has he won more MVPs? And then we're going to have to have a serious, serious discussion because the numbers are going to warrant.

55:55Shannon Sharpe:and the wars are going to warrant. It's just a matter of how many championships does he have. Yeah. Because it's going to warrant some consideration.

56:05Shannon Sharpe:It's going to put him at the top. Yeah, absolutely. Because there ain't a whole lot of guys that got – I mean, you got to go back – only, let's see. Kareem with six MVPs. You got Jordan and Russell with five MVPs. and you got LeBron and Wilt with four MVPs. You talking about what you... Moses Malone has three. So Magic has three. Bird has three. So now we're talking about he already has three. Now you mess around and get him and let him get a fourth and a fifth. And he gets a couple of championships. Now what are we supposed to do with that? Just ignore it? Oh, let me guess. He played in a soft era.

56:50There's always going to be something.

56:59so

57:00Shannon Sharpe:we gonna see before we move on Joe the social media team had this post yesterday look at Joe what happened bro oh man what y 'all got going on Joe what you doing Joe do you know anything about wrestling Joe yeah I know something about wrestling well uh CM Punk did that when he beat Seth Rollins well he won the belts. So he was making fun of Seth Rollins and Becky. So they got the championship. So he's like, I got the belts now. So that's what he was doing. So we were spoofing that. And people were like, man, why y 'all do Joe like that? Clearly y 'all not wrestling fans. Because if you were wrestling fans, you the new CM Punk did that.

57:43Shannon Sharpe:And we took that from CM Punk. Oh, okay. Can we pull up the clip of CM Punk? You see Joe? Yeah, yeah, they thought y 'all were trying to put shame on the king. Hold on, hold on, hold on. See, ain't nobody thought that. Ain't nobody thought that. See, you added that, Joe. Ain't nobody said nothing about no king. Put shame on the who? Nah, I'm saying, I'm saying. I don't even know what they put their hat on. See, a punk ain't had no hat on. I'm telling you what social media was thinking. They were thinking like, oh, man, they trying to put shame on the king. That's what they were thinking, Ocho.

58:14Joe, you can't self-proclaim yourself as a king. You can't do that, Joe.

58:20Shannon Sharpe:Ocho. So, then do we have to go through this every time? I'm just saying, you can't call yourself the king. You have to be appointed. I was anointed. Anointed. Ocho, you know when I was in high school, this back in 1999, back in Little Rock, Arkansas, at D, Little Rock Central. You know, I won a homecoming king, Ocho. I was anointed back in the day in high school. Real? Yeah, man, I won a homecoming king. How you a homecoming king and you don't even play football? It was about one of the basketball homecoming king doing the game. Y 'all had a basketball homecoming king? What kind of boy, Javon?

58:56Shannon Sharpe:Y 'all ain't had a football team? Y 'all had, hold on, hold on, hold on. Don't act like y 'all ain't got basketball homecoming now. No, we don't. I ain't never heard that. Who don't? Nobody but you. Man, y 'all tripping. Homecoming king and queen is on football night. It's a football. Football, yeah. Man, you got a homecoming king for basketball. I don't know where y 'all from, bro. In the sticks. I know y 'all from down there. I know I have a basketball home. Hey, Joe, I promise you. I've never heard of basketball, homecoming, king, queen. Now, football. Man, y 'all, what is, what? Chat. It is different down there.

59:26I need y 'all to chat. Chat don't know? They don't know? Hey, Joe, what's your school population was? About 200?

59:33Shannon Sharpe:Chill, chill, chill. I'm just asking. We had, hold on, Ocho, we had close to about 500 people in my high school class now. Damn, in just one class? No, not your high school, your graduating class. Yes, my high school graduating class, yes. Now, you mean the whole school, 500 kids.

59:52Shannon Sharpe:Joe, I have never heard. Now, I done been to a lot of places. As a matter of fact, I'm getting ready to go to the county fair. But being from the south and being on a farm, I was in 4-H. I went to county fairs. I went to two goat shows and a cow show. I ain't never heard no ish like that. When you got a basketball home coming quick. I ain't never heard it, Ocho. Chad said I ain't never heard it either. Matter of fact, it's homecoming. Man, what is wrong with y 'all? These people saying this in the gym. No, homecoming for football games. Hold on. You mean you was prom king? Now, I get it. If you say I was prom king, because you got homecoming, you got prom.

1:00:31Shannon Sharpe:So if you say I was the prom king, okay, Joe, congratulations. You got basketball hoop? I ain't never heard that. I got a boy, John, it's that. Man, y 'all must grow up in some real rural areas. Rural, yeah. Then y 'all probably have stoplights. Ninja, you from Little Rock, Arkansas. I know. The hell.

1:00:52Shannon Sharpe:He's coming like he from L.A. or New York. Hey, hey, show me a picture, Joe. Show me a picture you want homecoming king. Show your picture? I need to see a picture. Okay, fair. I'm going to show you. I ain't got one on me. Yeah, yeah. Nah, he's trying to use AI. You think you slick. He going to use AI and try to create one. Ocho, you think I'll sit here and lie to you, bro? That's the last thing I'm going to do. I ain't going to lie to you, bro. Like I said, prom, if you say, hey, Ocho, you know your boy. You know your boy was prom king. I've been at this king thing for a minute now. This ain't the first time I've been at the king.

1:01:29Shannon Sharpe:They crowned me the king for the prom. Okay, you know, your boy played a little football. I was a quarterback. I was a wide receiver. I was homecoming king. Gotcha. Basketball? Nah, something ain't right. something ain't adding up. Boy, hey. Boy, these people gonna talk about y 'all over here, man. Not really. Maybe y 'all had a nice little pep rally. Y 'all used to do it. Y 'all had a pep rally, right? Yeah, man, we used to have a pep rally. Come on, man. Y 'all don't try to play us like this now. I'm just saying. If you had a basketball homecoming, ain't no telling what else y 'all had. Hold on.

1:02:04Shannon Sharpe:So, listen. Did y 'all tell me when these colleges, they have football homecoming, y 'all do know they have a basketball homecoming too, right? Not by school. Not mine either. Y 'all, man, will y 'all stop playing crazy? I promise you. So y 'all got a baseball homecoming too? Track homecoming? Nope. So what we stopping today? You got to stop somewhere. Y 'all got to chill, bro. Hey, I did joke every day. I had a wrestling homecoming, football homecoming, basketball homecoming, soccer, baseball. Wow. That's crazy. Maybe it's small areas that do that, Joe. Maybe it's small areas. Maybe so. Not down here in Miami.

1:02:42Not that I know of.

1:02:44Shannon Sharpe:Look, the chat telling y 'all both. They telling y 'all both. I mean, the people in the chat that are saying both are probably from small, rural areas like Arkansas. Yeah. I mean, they probably have a black and a white homecoming queen. Okay, I get it. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Hey, Joe, I don't believe you won. Black and white proms. I mean, y 'all have a great prom. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. Y 'all want to put a stain on my crown so bad. We didn't put no stain on it. We just saying there's no way you want it. Hey, hey, hey, listen, listen. I done figured y 'all out. I done figured y 'all out.

1:03:15Shannon Sharpe:Boy, y 'all want to put a stain on your boy so bad. Y 'all good? What's up? No, we good. We good. Joe, I ain't even went homecoming king, so I know you ain't even when you was playing. What? In high school? No. Oh, Joe. Oh, Joe. Hold on. I'm going to have to get my stuff together with y 'all. Get it, Joe. Get it, Joe. I ain't went homecoming king. I won class clown I won that they got that one right all the way through the NFL what you see is what you get

1:03:52damn

1:03:54Shannon Sharpe:you know I didn't went home I was Mr. Senior what did that mean class of perlative who Most likely to succeed? That's what that means? Mr. Senior? No. I won Mr. Senior. You had a Mr. In your graduating class, you had a Mr. and Mr. Senior. Yeah, I ain't never heard of it. You had a most likely to succeed. You had most talented. You had all the hats. Oh, yeah. Yes, you got most likely to succeed. Okay, okay, yeah. Hold on. So tell me something. Did y 'all have a senior banquet and all that? Yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had a senior banquet. Hold on, did you have a senior trip? Y 'all had a senior trip?

1:04:40Shannon Sharpe:Yes, I didn't. Where was I? Oh, Joe, where was I going to go? Where I was going to get money going on the senior trip. Joe, y 'all had a senior trip, Joe? I got money. They went on a senior trip. I ain't go, though. Where they went? Ours went to Disney World or Disneyland, whichever one is out here. Yeah, it was somewhere like that. We went on a cruise. So what was I going to use for luggage? Piggly wiggly bags? I had no suitcase. The hell I look like going to the cruise with grocery bags. Come on now.

1:05:09Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I got my book. I can bring it to you. Most Likes and to Succeed. Most Athletic. That's what I'm going to do. I have to get my yearbook. I got the most superlatives in Glenville history. That can never be broken because it's not a high school anymore. I'm the only athlete to win most MVP in basketball, football, track, and senior athlete. I'm the only one that did it. Sweet steaks. Hey, that's impressive. I ain't gonna lie to you. Sweet steaks. That's impressive. But I still ain't heard of the home best. Never that. Man, y 'all ain't never been to a this is crazy. Self-proclaimed king. Child, please.

1:05:55Shannon Sharpe:You don't see the chat vouching it for everything I'm saying? Nah, the chat didn't, you know. Ain't nobody vouching for that. They said both. They said it's a football homecoming and a basketball homecoming. We're going to close the chat. Let's go close the chat. We got the poll up. Hey, hey, hey.

1:06:17Shannon Sharpe:Elcho, I detected a vote fraud. So we're going to close the chat. Damn. What's up? What's up, fellas? Y 'all straight? Yeah, we good, Joe? I don't care. Yeah, we good. Everything good, Joe.

1:06:33Shannon Sharpe:Nearly four years to the day, the last appearance in his NBA game, Dwight Howard is officially retired from professional basketball. Joe, Ocho, you first, Joe. Where do you rank Dwight? Ooh. I got him up. As far as centers, he up there, bro. He up there. I had a chance to play against him in a couple playoff series. to where it was nothing we could do, bro. We had to let the men, like, we had to play them straight up because they were so good. This is the year they went to the finals. They beat us that year, but then the following year, we beat them. But he was so dominant. Like, I'm talking about, like, to the point, defensively, he could anchor the defense by himself.

1:07:18Shannon Sharpe:He was crazy athletic at 6 '11", jumping out the gym like that. Like, defensively, bro, he just wrecked the game. It was just, it was special to watch. You know, but... You talk about, hey, Jodis or Orlando Magic. Yeah, yeah. For the back injury. He used to get to it, boy. He had everything. He came into the league, not really a score, just a rim runner. And then he developed some post moves down in the post, Ocho, to where he was effective. And next thing you know, he was unstoppable. He was unstoppable, bro. He had a good career. He had a great career, actually. He a Hall of Famer. The only thing I say, they did him wrong.

1:07:56Shannon Sharpe:he deserves to be one of those top 75 players. There are some guys that got on there. And I think Anthony Davis is phenomenal. But Anthony Davis has not had a better career than Dwight Howard when they selected his team. He didn't. I'm sorry, guys. And I respectfully, and I think Anthony Davis is a phenomenal player. And he's gotten and earned everything that he deserves. Dwight Howard is one of the 75 best players in NBA history. His resume, the defensive player of the year, the all-NBA selections. He finished second in the MVP voting. He anchored a team that went to the NBA finals. They lost to Kobe.

1:08:37Shannon Sharpe:But Dwight Howard is a top 75 player. Absolutely. Now, look. Absolutely. When you start talking about Senators, you got Shaq and you got Kareem. You got Mr. Russell. You got Wilt.

1:08:55Shannon Sharpe:Moses Malone, Yoke, Embiid. No, I ain't taking Embiid over him. What do you rank Dwight? I'm trying to get to the song. Kareem, Mr. Russell, Wilt, Shaq, Moses Malone, Nikola Jokic. That's six there.

1:09:26What you put him at, like, 7th or 8th? At centers, yeah.

1:09:30Shannon Sharpe:I'm thinking so, Ocho. Oh, no, no, no, no. He died for Hakeem. What the hell? Yeah. What the hell? Man, come on. Dave Robinson, you put Dave Robinson in there? Dave Robinson, yeah. You forgot, but Tim Duncan considered Power Forward, huh? He a power forward. Power Forward. Okay. Yeah, man, I don't know where you put him in the top 10. You lost my damn mind.

1:09:56Shannon Sharpe:So, yeah, I think you're a top 10 center. I think I'd give him top 10. Yeah. He ain't in the top five. Yeah, he had a good career. Ochoa, it's time to play a fade presented by Prize Picks. Oh, okay.

1:10:19Shannon Sharpe:Damn, what animation?

1:10:30Shannon Sharpe:All right, Joe. DeJounte Murray, 21 and a half points and assists. So when you combine points and assists, he'll have at least 21 and a half. Hey, hey, hold on. Hold on. D. Murray, he been out there acting a little different. Yeah. Standing over folks and all kind of men's ain't a man. Ain't a man. Hey, look, look. I like his energy. Jay. I say he's going to be over there. He ready. Hey, look. He down for whatever. He over there, Uncle Ocho. Points and assists? Yeah. Yeah, he getting to it. He ain't playing. Derrick Queen, two and a half assists. Yeah, I like Bigfella. He can pass at that. He got a nice field for the game.

1:11:14Shannon Sharpe:He can pass at Ocho as a center. He bring the ball up the court sometimes, kind of like Jokic. You know, they start the offense with him. Kevin Durant will have at least 25 and a half points. Who they playing? Oh, they playing... I think they playing the Pelicans, right? Yeah, they playing the Pelicans. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He'll get them some work. And last but not least, Portland versus Utah, Robert Williams, seven and a half rebounds. Hold on. Rob been balling. I've been checking him out. He... Only thing is... is he starting? I think he coming off the bench. I think he does too. He had a seven and a half rebound.

1:12:01Shannon Sharpe:That's a lot, but I ain't going to lie. He been putting up some decent numbers. Can you click? What did he have the last couple games? Give me something. Give us some information. Give us a lifeline or something. Come on.

1:12:19Shannon Sharpe:I know they normally tell you.

1:12:26Shannon Sharpe:10 rebounds, 7 rebounds, 8 rebounds, 11 rebounds, 6 rebounds, 14 rebounds. That boy eating glass. Hey, but he living under that goddamn glass, huh? That boy eating glass. He been on the glass. They playing Utah? Utah ain't playing nobody. They ain't playing Markham in a... More. $25 to win$150. download the app today. Use code Shannon to get$50 in lineups after you play your first$5 lineups. Prize fix. It's good to be right. Hey, Uncle Joe. What's that? My bus came in. What bus? My bus. I told you I made my own bus. Oh, man. That's hard. Put it closer to the face. Put it closer to the camera. You can't see it?

1:13:20Man. Hey, Joe. I like it, bro. Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe. This metallic 14-carat gold. Hey, that's fine. But let me tell you something, Joe. Go ahead. Sometimes we don't invite you to sit at the table. Yeah. Joe, you got to create your own table, Joe.

1:13:37Shannon Sharpe:Hello. Hello. I don't know what kind of gold that is, but you holding it pretty steady because if that's gold, if that was real gold, boy, there ain't no way you holding it like that. No, it's heavy, Unk. It's heavy. It's metallic. gold flakes. So a gold flake is not full 14 carat. Oh no, because then it would distort. It would distort. You know, it looked just like me, don't it? Hey, they did a good job, bro. Hey, Joe, hold on. Joe, look at the side profile, Joe. Let me check you out. Oh yeah, they got that head, boy. They got you right. It look like me, Joe?

1:14:18Yeah, they got you right, bro. Hey, Joe, so I'm going to have it sitting back there. And then, you know, the jacket I had on when I scored and I put the old man jacket on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to frame that up and have it sitting in the background with all of my war, Joe. Man, that's going to be fine. Yeah, Joe. Hey, Joe. Hey, this is one-on-one, Joe. I had to make my own, you know?

1:14:40Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe, that's where my 5900 went. Oh, man. Nah, nah, you good. Hey, hey, hey, hey, where we at? That's three years. that man owe you. God. All right, Joe. Joe, I got him, Joe. Hey, I'll tell you what my grandma told me. He been here and you say that for three years. Hey, hey, hey, Joe. I thought we ain't got past that. That's all I'm saying. Joe, long as I owe him, he'll never be broke, huh? Absolutely. Yeah. You know, so anytime it's an emergency situation, you know, you break the glass. Yeah. Break the glass. I got you. Okay. Yeah. Hey, Joe, the chat say Ocho went to the same people to do his statue that D-Wade got.

1:15:20Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man. Come on, man. Nah, Joe, he look just like me. Nah, your look good, old Joe. Hey, Joe. Hey, the chat maker. Hey, Ash. Ash, you can show... I'm going to show you the picture I used. I was young. I was young, too. Hey, Ash, can you show the side-by-side of the picture and the statue so the people can see? I sent it to you. I texted to you. It's probably too late to put up, huh? That's the same one. Whoever did... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, yeah, Josie, the chat trying to make jokes. Whoever did D-Wade hooked up Ocho. Nah, nah, nah. Because they right down there in Miami, it was a two-for-one.

1:16:03Shannon Sharpe:I'm saying you can't get that wrong, man. Come on, man. Hey, Josie, I use a younger picture. They said I look like Richard Jefferson.

1:16:15Hey.

1:16:19Hey, Unk, that look just like, look, look at the side by side, Joe. Let me see. You see it like that? Oh, yeah. Boy, that's you. Yeah, it look just like me. I just use a younger picture.

1:16:29Shannon Sharpe:Why you use a younger picture, Ocho? You ain't look like that in 25 years. Yeah, but I wanted to use a picture when I was sexy. See this? Hey, Joe, this the picture, right? Yeah. Well, people going to look at you and look at you now, Ocho. You got to use a more updated picture. Nah, but, hey, but, Joe, hey, Unk, this is when I was the sexiest man in the year. get that. But that was 20 years ago. People looking at you now. Right. Yeah, but I don't want them to worry about it. I want my best version of me. Right. I want my bus to be the best version of me. I was sexy. I was a sex symbol back then, Joe.

1:17:02Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I see what you got going on. I ain't want to use the old me. The old me. Better, better, they're catfishing people.

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