Nightcap Hour 1: Jaron “Boots” Ennis BEATS Xander Zayas + Lionel Messi Is THE GOAT + Jaylen Brown HAS TIME for His HATERS

24:48Shannon Sharpe:Yep, yep. Hey, hold this. Joe, that just how I'm gonna do your head, too. Damn, Joe! Here we go. Yeah, hey, listen, hey, hey, Joe, I'm motivated. Oh, Joe, you was taking notes of that fight, So you looking for the lead, that lead left gonna land the whole night. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hey, that man reached, what you mean that lead left? That damn left ain't gonna hit nothing but my damn elbow here. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I got too much reach on you, man. I told you, boy, you gonna have to eat two or three to eat before you can even get up in here. Bye-bye. Yo, I'm coming to that thing like Tyson, Joe. You gonna get your ass knocked out, playing.

25:25Shannon Sharpe:Yep, you gonna get on the floor. No, no, no, no, no. I don't get it clean. I don't get it clean. Ocho, Ocho, I'm precise with my punches, bro. I ain't got that. I'm just, ha ha. Real quick. Yeah, it sound good. You got the noise down, right? Yeah. That's about it. So, Buzz started at 35 with the 40, 47, had one fight at light middle, with junior middle, which is 154, and then super middle. But this is a fight. Hey, Buzz put on the show. This is what you want to see. This is what boxing fans want to see. They want to see guys. They want to see guys. I mean, both guys had unblemished records. Hey, somebody old gots to go.

26:08Shannon Sharpe:These guys be holding. Hey, man, these guys be hoarding these records like they gold bricks. Man, fight. You in the fight. Oh, Joe, how that look? Man, hey, nah, I don't even want to play this week. They got XY over there, so I don't want to. You know, I might not catch with two or three passes, or I might get shut out. No. Fight. You in the fight game. Hey, it's a little different nowadays. Everything is magnified at the highest nowadays. So a guy take a loss, hell, he got to see that for the next month on these social media platforms, especially if he didn't got his ass. Well, let me ask you a question.

26:44Shannon Sharpe:You know what he got to look at. Let me ask you a question. The rate these guys go, and some of these guys that's going to finish with undefeated records, would they ever be viewed better than Sugar Ray? Marvin Hackett. Nah. Roberto Duran, Salvador Sanchez. Hell no. Henry, Henry, Henry. No. But also, I don't even think they worried about being viewed better than anybody. They trying to maximize their earning potential every time they fight. What's the best way to do that? How do I maximize as much as I can during my boxing career in this small window? Be entertaining. I got to keep that zero. Be entertaining.

27:24I got to keep that zero. and I got that too, but everybody, you know how hard it is to be entertaining? Talk a little trash, market yourself,

27:32Shannon Sharpe:brand yourself, and go out there and back it up. Hey, you don't want none of this. Everybody talking a big game on social media. Everybody show up to everybody fight. Oh, I want to fight him. That could be a fight. Let's make it happen and don't nobody do nothing. Hey, that's because in boxing, bro, you like your own self promoter. Yeah, I'm saying like you got to promote yourself. So if you go out your fight Yeah, and I want that smoke. I'm at child fight. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and you whooped the mess out of Ocho Yeah, oh, come on. Come on man. Are you didn't like that analogy? No, and not at all I'm gonna be out there yelling say

28:14Shannon Sharpe:Hey, you gonna be like mr. T with mr. T with clubber lay he's your rocky fight. Yeah, I want it Balboa, you're ducking me. Stop ducking. Tell everybody I'm a real champion. You know what, Uncle Joe? Yeah. You know what? When you think about boxing, too, there are not that many personalities. There are not that many personalities. I mean, very, very polar. There are no polarizing figures, you know, that are entertaining when it comes to the mic. I think Adrian Broner might have been our last one. So all the fighters right now that are undefeated, they have to protect that zero. For one, for earning potential.

28:49Be in the A side. and if you don't have that polarizing figure or that entertaining aspect that you bring to the fight game, you're not a draw.

28:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. If you're not a draw, you can't take those chances. You can lose a fight or two if you're a draw and everybody coming to see you fight no matter what. But if you're not, you got to protect the zero. You either be entertaining or you can fight. But you can't be boring and not entertaining. and we pick one. Because if you think about it, Tyson didn't say a whole lot. Tyson knocked folks out. And you get a guy like a Roy Jones Jr. Roy Jones was entertaining, and he could fight. Yeah, Ali. Thank you. So. Hold on. Hey, hold on, Uncle Joe. Let's not sleep on Adrian Bruno. Hey, Joe, let's not sleep on young Adrian Bruno.

29:41Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know we see him on the back of his career. When he first started, Joe. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You talking about entertainment?

29:49Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he was home, bro. He was the draw. Even in losses, he can still sell out of the arena. Why? Because you don't know what the hell to expect. He's unpredictable. Man. But it's entertaining. When he said, when they asked him, say, Adrian, what were you thinking in there? He's like, man, I'm getting cooked.

30:13Shannon Sharpe:Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, why y 'all BS 'in though? Listen, y 'all know them boxers, bro. They work too damn hard, man. Hey, look, them some of the most in-shape athletes. Probably there is outside of track and field. Yeah. Shoot. Yeah. Man, listen, you get in there playing you want to, somebody look and take your damn head off, bro. Three minutes seem like 10 minutes. Ooh. I'm telling you, look, I ain't do no sparring, but to just put Ben on the clock and hitting the bag and hitting the mix, man, Man, that man, my heart, hey, he's like, come on. Hey, you know, Ochoa, you know, I'm floating right high.

30:52Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. High. I'm shooting that jack. Ha, ha. What do you? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Man, about 45 seconds. Man, my heart about to explode. He's like, come on. Yeah. I'm like, well, what? Man, I got to sit down, man. To keep it. So now, remember, you watch fight guy. You remember how we watch fights like, man, throw punches. Bro, you get so tired, your brain will not tear your arms nothing. Yeah, yeah. Hey, it give you a newfound respect for them boxers, bro. Hell yeah. You gotta be, I'm telling you, man. Hey, and them arms and them hands get heavy as I don't know what you talking about being on that phone, Ocho.

31:34Shannon Sharpe:Hey, hey, Joe. And damn that phone. You saw what happened to me in that fourth round when I got there on that goddamn exhibition. Hey, hey, Joe, I can see the punch coming from a mile away because he winds, Joe, he winding up. He bought it from his hip, Joe. I said, oh man, I see that. Boy, I couldn't, Joe, I couldn't even raise my hand, Joe. I couldn't get it if I wanted to. Man, I was like, man, no arms are on my body. Ain't no way these mine. Hey. Hey, that's when they teach you about the breathing. Oh yeah. Controlling you. That's everything. Oh, it is, yeah. but see I've never been able to breathe correctly because I'm a guy that holds my breath so you know what I'm saying I mean if you think about it most of the time you're running around you ain't breathing you're like yeah oh yeah

32:29Shannon Sharpe:so to try to remain calm that's the hardest part is doing something physical and remaining calm cause at the end of the day you got fight or flight It's really that simple. It is, bro. I mean, somebody get after you, you're like, oh yeah, just let me breathe.

32:52Shannon Sharpe:Man, hey.

32:57Shannon Sharpe:Hey, take one breath. And that's why you gotta be conscious of that for real. Like them deep inhales through your nose and slowly exhale, I'm telling you, bro. That take you a long way in sports. I don't give a damn what sport you playing. You got to know how to control that breathing now. But it was, this is what boxing is meant to be. Champions going against champions, guys fighting, guys putting, hey, put it on the line and let's go get it done. So I was very excited. I'm happy for Boots.

33:28Shannon Sharpe:Xander giving him an opportunity to shine. Hey, did y 'all see that? Ben Whitaker? Ooh, you see him? Put him down the center. Ben normally be in that thing. Ben be. Hey, that's - Oh, he ain't had no damn time to get to it. Hell, he whooped his ass so bad. He ain't had time to get to it. But he look good, he look good. Finally fought someone twit, what is he now, 13-0-1, but he look good, he look good. How'd he get a one? He had a draw, he draw. Oh. Yeah, he can finally like him, bro. Hey, look, they talk about his antics, Ojo, but don't let that boy fool you. that boy a hell of a shape, and he got some skills, man.

34:11Shannon Sharpe:He got some skills. I think he do all the antics for more visibility. He want people to really tune in and watch. He want to be a draw, but he can fight. Ooh, he can fight. Guess who else had a lot of antics? Sugar Ray Leonard. Guess who else? Muhammad Ali. What do you think? Oh, Joe, where'd he get this from? Prince Nassim. And Sugar Ray shuffling his feet. Yeah, yeah. Joe, you seen Clips of Prince Nassim fighting for him? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, one of my favorite fighters, probably to me, the most entertaining fighter of all time, even though his record is upside down in a sense, Emmanuel Augustus, the drunken master, Joe.

34:50Oh, yeah, I know you're talking about it. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Hey, oh, man. Hey, hey, man. Boy, that's entertainment. Yeah.

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38:52Shannon Sharpe:Behold. Lionel Messi came off the bench in the 60th minute of Argentina's World Cup group stage finale against Jordan, celebrating his return with a stunning free kick to seal a 3-1 victory for the reigning champions, who had already wrapped up first place in the group. His strike extended his record with the highest goal scorer in men's World Cup history with 19 goals. It also broke the record for scoring in the most consecutive World Cup matches at seven. oh joe is getting hard and harder for you to keep fighting for your guy no no no no i'm good i thought you were hanging in there but i'm saying he's making it harder and harder yeah yeah hey listen listen messi is who he is uncle joe yeah he is he's one of those that that that when it comes to those who love him they have the facts and the opinions and the in the stats to back up why they love him and i'll be the first to say one who is a a a in a football enthusiast that messi is phenomenal what he's done for the game you know being able to watch him and holding your breath anytime the ball is at his feet and watch him dribble through everybody you know what i don't feel like dribbling through everybody i can process information and be two or three steps ahead of everybody else on the field and know where you're going to be at before i even pass the ball i enjoy I get it.

40:08I understand what I'm watching but again Despite what he's done throughout his career and even still doing now on the World Cup stage at 30 I don't know how old he is he's older But but being able to do it and dictate games at his age I think that's 38 Yes, I think so I Want to be disrespectful, that's why I said 37 shopping.

40:31Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I'm almost certain. Hey, but messy a messy boy a 39 39. That's crazy. And the funny thing about it too, right? Is half the people are like two days before mine. He was a 24. Oh, so he just turned 39 39. Yes. Hey, that's crazy Joe. Hey, when when when he was introduced I forgot what year it was I forgot what game it was he came on and I was watching but it was football season when he was playing at Barcelona he was introduced very very young I was able to go and see him play later on after the season ended obviously you know I used to fly back and forth Joe after the season went in go to Real Madrid and go to Barcelona meet all the players go to Madrid go to Barcelona.

41:29And so, dude, I mean, I be arguing with people and I've been watching this dude damn near 20 years, Joe.

41:34Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. 20, 20 years. That's crazy. He's been, but he just makes it look so effortless. No, he make it look easy. Bro, I'm like, come on, man. Damn, I mean, they say talk hard. How you come in just like that and just kick and the ball in the damn net? Hey, sometimes, bro, the pace that some guys play at, I don't give a damn what you do. You can't speed them up, they play their own pace and they make the game look easy as I don't know what. You know what I mean? And that's kind of how it is for Messi. It's like the game is just so easy for him. One minute he'll lure you to sleep, next minute his ass gone.

42:11Shannon Sharpe:Bingo. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That's a good one. He got that, you know, now, just look, he just, God blessed him. He did. Some people like God say, you meant to do this. I don't know what his other talents I don't know if he can shoot pool I don't know if he can shoot a basketball I don't know if he can play table tennis but man that joker left foot is magical it's surgical and like I said some people all they can do is what God gave them the ability to do is to do that very well now some people are like you look at a guy like a Mookie Betts Mookie Betts might be the best all around athlete I've ever seen as far as shooting pool rolling dice shooting the basketball throwing the football, bowling.

42:57Shannon Sharpe:Mookie Betts, I put Mookie Betts against anybody. Man, listen, I did a bowling event with him about a year ago, Uncle Ocho. They had that man bowling down there on his own lane. He up there bowling 280s. Yes. The highest is 300. You know what I'm saying? He just, he gifted. Shoot a basketball, he could dunk. I mean, he's phenomenal. Play all the positions. He could be a gold glove at every position, probably other than pitcher. But he could play third base, short, second, first, center, right, left. He could play every position, and he would be a gold glove at every position other than pitcher.

43:38Shannon Sharpe:That's how good he is. He's serious. He's serious. He's serious. He's nice. He's nice. But, man, Messi, man, what you call him, man? They screwed Iran. Iran had anybody to go to the – they got the dude offside. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, man. Let that man go. They got enough going on. Hey, hey, Joe. And I said, and I said it again, what Messi is the greatest gift that he gave to the beautiful game. Now, listen, some people say he's the GOAT. That's cool. Hey, Joe, sometimes you got two fine women, right? Yeah. And the one on the left, you know, is Messi. Yeah. She can do no wrong. She's perfect in everybody else's eyes.

44:25But the one on the right, you like her better. Even though the one on the left, to everybody else seems to be perfect. You can do no wrong. But there's something about that one over there on the right. You hear me? I just like something about her. The way she carry herself.

44:41Shannon Sharpe:The way she walk on the heels. Is my page the only one showing up? Since we talked about Kate Birdians, what keeps showing up on your Explorer page? Kate Burden, yeah. Yes. Oh, my page blocked the other women outside the one I had. Damn, what are you? Come on, bruh. You can't live like that, Ocho. Nah, it's like a parental advisory. You can't live like that, bruh. Huh? You can't live like that. Well, then - I already know what's on Unc Explore page. I already know where he is. Nah, nah, nah. Yeah, Joe, they ain't like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

45:22Shannon Sharpe:I've been trying to get Jordy to do a reset on my explore page.

45:29Hey, I don't even, hey, honestly, I don't even know how to get to explore page. I don't know. I'm not really good.

45:34Shannon Sharpe:Hey, just cut what you call them on and you hit that center button. It'll go right to it. Yeah. Hey, what's wrong? What's wrong with being on the explore page though? I don't understand that. It's a bad thing or something? I mean, that's the menu, Joe. That's the what? The menu. I ain't ordering from, I'm just looking. I ain't ordering from the milk. That day, you can't. Joe told me, man, just call you, you can't read the video. I said, hey, you ever been like, you know what? As a matter of fact, let me switch that. Instead of getting that steak, let me get the chicken. Oh, you don't, no, no, no, no, no.

46:07Shannon Sharpe:And let me get the lobster mac and cheese. See, the problem is, I don't be trying to, I don't sneak and be on the explore page or nothing like that. I be on the explore page sitting right next to my lady. You ain't. Hey look, let me tell you something, man. Let me tell you something. Don't be trying to sneak and do nothing. You don't always get caught doing something. You know what I mean? I'm just, I don't be on the explore page, but it just be, I'm like, well, hold on. I wasn't looking for this. Hey Joe, I'ma try that, Joe. But I be on the plane and people are trying to like, what are you watching?

46:43Shannon Sharpe:Man, you don't get out of my damn phone. Talk about what I'm looking at. None of y 'all badness. I should've told him totally. I'm gonna try that, Joe. Hey, hey, listen, listen, listen. You got a bunch of fitness, fitness IG model, because you're in the fitness yourself, so you probably be looking at stuff. You want to look, you know, try to learn you some new movements, you know, with your shoulders or something like that. I get it. Learn new movements, huh? Okay, yeah. With your shoulder, they got all type of different exercises, Ocho. Yeah, Joe. Hey, look, look, look, look. We can't help nowadays that everybody in the fitness now.

47:16Shannon Sharpe:Damn, every time you look around, somebody, everybody got a fit, trying to sell a program. And everybody got fit in their name. Allison fit, Jennifer fit, Monica fit. Yeah. Hey man, that's what it is. Amber fit, Body Buy.

47:40Shannon Sharpe:Everybody got fit and Body Buy in their name. Like, damn. And they keep them bodysuits on. But see, I don't even know now. I don't know what's altered. I don't know what's filtered. I don't even know. I just automatically assume that is not your real body. So I just keep on going, hey, let me find something that I can. Let me send, let me send a, ask something I can, what you call it? Well, I find somebody bitch pressing 500 times, 10 times, 500 pounds, 10 times. Right. Man, all that other stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a lot on there and I don't be knowing what's AI and what's not.

48:18Shannon Sharpe:I ain't gonna lie to you. Cause it be a lot of stuff on there that be looking fake. I be like, hold on, bro, let me just go on on something. I know, AI done ruined it. AI done ruined, damn, done ruined your experience on being on IG. Jalen Brown had time to respond to anyone who doubts his game. Jalen Brown's trade value isn't as high around the league per Bobby Marks. child please I had an analyst guy tell me review Jalen Brown as the seventh best player on a team he about to be talking about the dream team he about to be talking about the dream team 92 dream team 08 dream team 12 I knew you ain't talking about no seventh best player on what team right ain't not their team he ain't the seventh best player on OKC or San Antonio if you combine them if you put OKC starters San Antonio starters Jalen Brown is not the seventh best down player.

49:10Shannon Sharpe:As a matter of fact, I can make a case for Jalen Brown. He's the best two-way player in all of basketball. He can legitimately guard one through four legit. Yeah. Hey, analytics messes stuff up. Analytics is messing stuff up, Joe. It's getting out of hand. I got two eyes. It's getting out of hand. Hey, Uncle Joe. I got two eyes. Well, I got one. Yeah, one good one that is. Yeah, well, hey, one good one. I got sniper vision, you hear me? But even I can see what Jalen Brown is. And to try to diminish his value in any way, you'd have to be an idiot. Excuse me. I don't mean no disrespect to anybody.

49:52You have to be an idiot to say he's eighth best in any goddamn thing. Yeah.

49:56Shannon Sharpe:That's true. Guarding basketball in general. But defensively, if you want to say he's the eighth best small forward of all time, okay, Joe, I can see that too. Okay, okay. That's a good one. That's a good one. and KD and Larry Bird and, you know, Dr. J. Okay, I will concede that. But what team? I want to know the team. I need somebody to tell me the team that's currently constructed that if you take – and don't trade him. I just want you to add him. So if I just add Jalen Brown to San Antonio, he's the seventh best player? If I just add Jalen Brown to the Knicks, He the seventh best damn player on the Knicks?

50:40Shannon Sharpe:No, sir. No, sir. No, sir. I'm sorry. And the general manager that told you that, he trying to get Jay LeBron for the cheap. He think he's slick. Hey, there you go. There you go. But I'm slick it on the oil spill. So you can't tell you can't fool me? Yeah. Hey, they need to stop this. Come on now. Y 'all doing too much. Okay, if you don't like the man, just say that. But y 'all got to stop. Y 'all got to stop this foolishness about trying to demand The man was in the MVP conversation for the better part of the season. He averaged 29 points, I think five rebounds, four assists, something like that.

51:15Shannon Sharpe:He had an outstanding season. He's a finals MVP. He's an Eastern Conference MVP. And he's a legit two-way player. I can make a case he's the best because when you look at Wimby, Wimby is more of a help defender. Jalen Brown can pick a guy up 94 feet and guard him one through four. Yeah. 0.23s and 4s. Yeah, he'll struggle a little bit against the 4s because they got a little size and height on him, especially size. But one through three, he can hold his own. Listen, man, the disrespect that this man is going through throughout this entire season, bro, it's ridiculous. What do you mean season? His old career.

51:58Shannon Sharpe:That's what really got him in a tailspin. Because he said, y 'all have really never valued me. Y 'all have never given me the credit that I deserve. And I get it's tough when you do everything and he's gotten better and better, better and better. He's not no accident. That make it seem like how you accidentally win an Eastern Conference MVP and a Finals MVP. That's over a series of games. If you want to say, you know what, he's the MVP of a game, I can see that. Excuse me, Chad. But over the stretch of the games, the Finals MVP, the Eastern Conference, He's an all-NBA selection. He's a multiple-time all-star.

52:38Shannon Sharpe:But in his mind, and he knows it, and I think he can't really come out and say his team, but he knows who's done this. Hey, and if you JB, bro, Ocho, think about this. Every damn time you look up your name in trade negotiations, come on, man. I mean, damn. You know, considering the season he just had, and it's like they have no value for him. Man, he's the best two-way player in the game, bro. Any team he goes to, I promise you, that man going to show his natural. You know what I mean? He ain't finna play with them. He ain't finna play with them, bro. I think this is just fuel added to his fire that he's steady, you know, adding to.

53:20Shannon Sharpe:And I know he's going to come out next season. Hey, listen, at this point, if you Boston, you damn near got to trade him, Arke Ocho. Oh, yeah. They've been trying to do it for five years. Yeah. It's too many rumblings, bro. Like, if I'm one of your key guys and every time I look up, I hear my name in trades, come on, man. You know where it's coming from. Hey, Joe, the funny thing about it, too, Uncle Joe, has anybody that's a part of the Celtics organization come out and say and debunk these things that are being said? Anybody came out to his defense? Well, listen, Brad Stevens spoke, but, hell, he didn't say he wasn't trading him, and he didn't say he was trading him.

53:55Shannon Sharpe:You know what I mean? That wasn't no real quote. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. I get it. I get it. Come out and defend me. What come out and come out and defend me. Don't give me that PC bullshit. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead Ocho. I said that PC that quote that politically correct bullshit. You're trying to give come out and defend me. It's the I think. The point I was going to make earlier is that I don't think he can take dead aim at his organization. So what you do is sometimes that you you ever seen the story with somebody he did this. oh he ate his cookie or he ate a bag of potato chips and they get into a fight or he ended up getting shot or he ate a piece of chicken that wasn't what caused it that might have been the straw that broke the camel's back but there are several things that led up to this yeah the celtics continuously every time and i said this in a nutshell at the end of the day it's really simple.

54:54Shannon Sharpe:It's not that complicated. And we're trying to put all these pieces together. This is a thousand piece one piece puzzle. The Boston Celtics view Jason Tatum more valuable than Jalen Brown. That's it. I agree. All of this other stuff that you want, you can say they have and I'm not so sure they always won't. They view JT more favorable, more valuable than JB. That is it. Now you can say, well, hey, y 'all, and the Boston fans always try to do this. Y 'all trying to break them up. Nah. The Boston Celtics gonna break them up. Absolutely. Because I'm not so sure, they don't want two,$300 million guys on the roster.

55:42Shannon Sharpe:They don't. That's what it all boils down to. Hey, it didn't pay it off already. We had two,$300 million players on the roster because we wanted to win the championship. We got it now, we good. And guess what happened? They won the championship, and Joe, tell them what the owners did to the Boston Celtics after they won the championship. They sold the team. They bought the team for three, 400 million, sold it for 6.4 billion. It was at the highest value. Hey, they gave you the two fingers and spread them, Joe. I'm gone, I'm out. Hey, it was at the highest value. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey, we put a little into this, and you mean, tell me we can get a B out of this?

56:22Shannon Sharpe:I'm gone. That's all I'm trying to do. I'm trying to I'm trying to X my investment. Yes. The magic number is 10 X. But if you mean to tell me how do you get I can get 15, 20, 30 X. That's it. And it's frustrating. It is frustrating when you don't feel that you get the credit that you deserve. excuse me let me take that back I hate saying deserve when you feel you don't get the credit that you've earned he's earned every accolade that he's got he's got himself better he's a better shooter he's a better all-around player he can facilitate if he has to but he's a phenomenal phenomenal player and he says why can't be why can't people appreciate me right but he's he's in one of those situations up, people gonna like you or they're not.

57:17And obviously everyone, most of the time, especially when it comes to the Boston Celtics, they're going to defer to Jason Tatum. That's it.

57:24Shannon Sharpe:He's like, I don't care about y 'all don't like me outside. Ocho, you don't care if nobody like you, but Cambodia gotta like me. Right. Hey, come on now. Cambodia gotta like me. All that other stuff, oh, he ain't that cute. If he didn't have money, he wouldn't be attractive. But damn it, I got it. Hey, but hold on, hold on. Hey, too, and add a little salt and pepper on top of that. I look good, I got money, and I'm spending it. So you really gotta like me for me. There ain't nothing coming out of my pocket, Joe. You hear me? Go ahead, Joe, go ahead. As a matter of fact, she gonna have to spoil you a little bit, ain't it, man?

58:03Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Joe, you got to show me something? Hello. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And I ain't talking about no damn cologne and no drugs. You got to show him something. He prefer and preferably on the first night. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. See that outro. I don't get that on the first night. Hey, what we waiting for? Because I want to know what I'm signing up for. When I'm finna buy a car and I test drive it, I don't tell the people at the dealership, listen, I'm going to wait two, three weeks, you know, and then I'm going to come back and test drive it. Nah, I'm test driving right down the spot.

58:34I need to know before I make this investment. Oh, you test drive it?

58:37Shannon Sharpe:I've never tested you in a car. Yeah. I go look you just go by yours I done scoped it out yeah you laying in the weed he laying in the weed I ain't driven it I done did everything I done checked the specs out on it I need to know what I'm getting I know the specs oh okay this got a horsepower okay gas power on the road this versus versus highway okay stopping power acceleration okay 6.5 6.6 comfortably okay air conditioned seat oh yeah tiptronic oh park assist yeah I want this one hey I like I like everything you just said right but think about everything you just you know you just named what happens if you get behind that steering wheel and even with all those those wonderful things that you just named right that you know the specs are you scooped out and it don't drive like you thought it should um the the the the suspension the suspension ain't hitting right i don't want to knock the suspension out of line all them like all that starboard is starting that idea i'm the reason the suspension out of line no i just played chat i was just playing see you see how they get me they be teeming that They didn't sleep tonight.

1:00:04Hey, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good comeback. That's a good comeback.

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1:00:54Shannon Sharpe:I can bring my grandkids. Look at your daddy. Look at your papa's number up there. Yeah. And he said, y 'all have never, never loved me as much as I've loved you. Sometimes that's the hardest. Yeah. When love is not reciprocated. Yeah. Copenhagen's spit-free pouches are packed full of American-grown tobacco. Made for welders. Stuck behind masks. More mechanics. Stuck on a fused spark plug. The long haul trucker stuck in gridlock. Performing, working late at the field office. Or anytime there's no time or space to spit, there's Copenhagen spit-free pouches. Find them in stores today. Not all varieties available in all geographies.

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1:05:00Shannon Sharpe:It is, bro. It is. Because he doesn't bother anybody. He's great in the community. And they make it seem like the man out there trying to cause a revolution. Like he's trying to cause an uprising. You know what? He's an easy target because he's so vocal. Yes, for sure. He's an easy target. Now, if he didn't say anything, if he was quiet, you know? I mean, anything y 'all say, especially the outside noise, they're probably going one ear and out the other. But you say something about me, and they know he's going to fire back. So what do they keep doing? Keep saying it. But I think the thing is, he looks at it like,

1:05:44Shannon Sharpe:we seem to, we the only ones that have something to complain about. Our counterparts, they never had to fight for anything. They had the right to vote. They had the right to get out. They had the right to marry who they wanted. We had to fight for stuff like that. They always had the right to vote. We didn't have that. so he's looking at like I gotta fight I've gotta be the voice and it and the shut up and dribble only works when you're saying something that they don't like we don't need to talk about who they are but we know because I see I see a lot of guys tweet stuff that they so they never say shut up and dribble they support it and they retweet it

1:06:33Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, this is unfortunate for JB, man, because I can see, you know, obviously they came up short last year, but due to injury for real, because when JT came back, everybody had picked him to come out the East, if we just keeping the 100. You know what I'm saying? Jason Taylor, yes, I believe they'd have been favored to come out the East. They'd have been favored. Yeah. Yeah, they absolutely would have been favored. Yeah, and it's like with that duo, bro, you ain't going to find – Like, to be able to compete with the Knicks in the Eastern Conference, it's going to be hard to do that. You get rid of this man.

1:07:04Shannon Sharpe:Oh, yeah. I don't think that ain't happening. Because you're not getting Greek free now. You know what I mean? So whatever you bring over there, I'm going to keep it real. I can't see him being better than JB. But I also can't see Boston keeping Jalen Brown going through all this turmoil that he's going through right now. And that name being in every damn conversation in the book every day. Like, if I'm him, I'm like, damn, they really don't mess with me like that. You know what, guys? We use a lot of an analogy. Be it man or woman, there's only so many times that you're going to hear about your partner stepping out before you move on.

1:07:41Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah. It's really that's – there's got to be some truth to it. And he knows it. He knows it. And I was talking on the net today, and it was like this and that. I said at the end of the day, Shannon, you know what he meant by what he said. It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what Ocho or what Joe. What did the organization, how did they perceive what he said? This was his most fun year. How did they perceive it? Forget Shannon. Forget Stephen A. Forget anybody else that offered an analysis or critique of what he said. Forget all of that. what did the Celtics organization think about what he said because at the end of the day it doesn't matter it does not and people try to make y 'all give us far too much credit y 'all kept talking about it and they traded the man man they don't listen to us they don't listen to us it only what does your employer think about what you said or your actions.

1:08:50Shannon Sharpe:He didn't have actions. He said this was his most fun year. I get what he said given the circumstances. Nobody had us to do this. It was fun for me to go out there and be in a lead role because you didn't think I could lead. Y 'all always told me that I was the second best player on the team, but I just showed you even without the lead dog that you guys say Jason Tatum is and Jason Tatum is a phenomenal player. He's a multiple time all pro. I mean, excuse me, all NBA, a multiple time all-star, two Olympics. He's like, hold on. Y 'all just blatantly disrespect me. Y 'all done had two Olympic teams.

1:09:30Shannon Sharpe:I don't want a championship. I don't want an MVP, an Easter conference and a finals MVP. I've been an all-NBA and all-star, and I can't get on one of them. And we got guys that's on this thing, and it ain't been one of those, let alone three.

1:09:48Shannon Sharpe:it's crazy it is yes yes and i love you know i love ocho where people say man if i was making x about a dollar it wouldn't bother me your boss your boss pay your salary and then y 'all get mad you get mad it's stupid the same of course it does but see they think it's kind of like because here's the thing you have to look at it of course Joe if somebody say well hey Ocho not a billion dollars you're gonna say yeah hell yeah I'll let you say whatever you want to say about me for a billion dollars but you gotta take it in the context of what you make now you let anybody talk to you any kind of way it's the same thing I said well when we had a conversation about LeBron Cookies I said okay you brought your food to work and your boss throw it in the trash.

1:10:42Shannon Sharpe:You go like, oh, it's cool. I ain't really care about it anyway. I say, man, y 'all need to stop lying. Shoot me. Y 'all need to stop lying. Y 'all get mad if you got a roommate and he eats your food. So you really tell me you worked hard or you paid for something. You bring it. They disregard it. And you cool with it? I say, man, y 'all got to stop lying now. I get it. Some of y 'all don't like LeBron, but y 'all got to stop lying. Ain't nobody going to be okay with somebody throwing their food away in the trash. You're not. I know I'm not. I ain't finna hold you. Nope. You know. First of all, you don't play with people's food.

1:11:19Shannon Sharpe:If you black, anybody that's black, you already know. What don't you do? Play with people's food. They food, they money, about they kids. Hey, hey, hey, hey. That's the top three. Hey, I'm talking about where act like you are. When you talking about don't mess with somebody, you mess with them three right there. Well, we'll act like we ain't never know you a day in our life. Don't play like that. Hey, you'll be six feet playing with the wrong one now. Yeah. Cause you know, I was meal prepping when it wasn't even in vogue. Boy, I wish somebody would. I wish somebody would eat my, boy please. My grandma said, boy, I'd have to act a pure damn fool.

1:12:08Shannon Sharpe:Ooh. Don't bother people's stuff. First of all, don't bother people. But I just don't know. I don't know what it is about Jalen Brown. What is not to like? Because you heard all the stories. People didn't think he was going to be a good basketball player because he was too smart. He was too interested in other things. So they say that's what the report said. Yeah. And you know that frowned upon, huh? And Joe? Yeah. What's that? Oh, yeah. Having things you like. When you play a sport and you're one of the best at said sport, having a life outside of that sport and having other things that you like, having other hobbies, is somewhat frowned upon a little bit.

1:12:51Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, you're right. In this era that we're in, fellas, I mean, this is what it is. You know what I'm saying? Like, everybody live streaming, everybody got a platform that they can speak on nowadays. So it's a lot different than what we're accustomed to. So, hey, you say something about a cat now, you best believe his ass coming back at it. He's gonna hop on his platform or somebody that got a platform. Yeah. Hey, get back at it. It's a different time now. It's a different time now, guys. Because a lot of times, guys would bite their tongue. I bit my tongue a lot. But I was like, you know what, hey, I'm here.

1:13:32Shannon Sharpe:Let me do my job. Hey, I ain't gonna be here. that I ain't gonna be here forever and keep it moving. Long as you ain't bothering my ish, long as everybody keep their hands to themselves, we cool. Right. No. We cool. Hey, all that, talk as loud as you want to.

1:13:54Shannon Sharpe:Everybody keep their hands to themselves. You ain't talking about nobody's wife or somebody's girlfriend and stuff like that. Hey, you don't bother people-ish. Man, hey, I don't see if somebody get to fight you, hey, he gonna take the man brush and brush his pubic hair. What? Hold on, his hair, wait, hold on, his brush? Come on, come on. Come on, Unc. Come on, man. Everybody don't play like that, bro. That's what I try to tell people. People tell my, oh, Unc, you, well, people don't play, man, see, they done got to the point, Nigel, people play entirely too much. Yep. I grew up in a time people didn't play at all.

1:14:36Shannon Sharpe:My grandfather used to tell my brother that boy, grown men don't play. He always told us that. Yeah. Man, they play too much. Nah, man, I don't play like that. Yeah. I saw a dude about to get in a fight. You know the old say, hey, man, how your wife and my kids? What? Yeah, dude, Walter Tisferato. Wait, say it again. Don't play with me like that. Say it again. Huh? Wait, how you say it? How is your wife and my kids?

1:15:17Hey.

1:15:21Shannon Sharpe:But everybody, but everybody, oh, you too emotional. You too this. Y 'all see, y 'all, I don't know how y 'all do it. Like I said, I really haven't been in the, I go nine to five or I have to punch a clock or something like that. So I don't know what the etiquette is. I really don't. I really don't know what the etiquette is. All I know is that I was raised. Y 'all want to say raised. They say you raised chicken, you raised livestock. The way I was reared is that you leave people ish and you leave people alone. If you do that, you won't have no problem.

1:16:03Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I agree with you. I don't care enough. Man, you heard such a... No, I didn't hear. And I don't care to hear. Is it feeding me? Is it financing me? Is it effing me? Come on now. Take your time, Pastor. Why do I care about all that then? It need to feed me, finance me, or eff me before I care. Now, if it's doing one of those three, you might have my attention. Now if you get all three of them, you got my undivided attention.

1:16:34Shannon Sharpe:Hey, that's a good one. Yeah. You know what? At the end of the day, I think it's going to be a situation. The best thing for both parties.

1:16:51Shannon Sharpe:Oh, it's got to. It's got to. Where is that right now? It's gotta separate. It's gonna happen. it's gonna happen i i don't like the fact that jalen brown's not in control of where he goes no well going going from boston i you you would think and hope even though he's won a chip already he want to go somewhere he could at least contend i think it's hard for him to come back to boston and have to look these people in their faith and they have to act like they really love him and want them to be around well hell you've been shopping me all damn summer judas come on man God already knew he was gonna take them 20 pieces, 20 pieces, those shillings.

1:17:30Shannon Sharpe:Amen. He knew. That man kissed him. Jesus shoulda elbowed him right in his face.

1:17:43Shannon Sharpe:Hell no. Man, you look, I said, I look. And he from the crib, so I'm always gonna root for anybody from the crib. But enough is enough now. Yeah. This is what he said. Analytics nowadays are used to discredit and control narrative. Roll ball out and none of these guys better than me on both ends who does work for. Nobody has won more combined regular season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago. Analytics, half are ruining game. We play at AI hoops. He ain't lie. Yeah. Hey, he got a point. He damn sure ain't lie. but now you see why he's such an easy target joe yeah but so this this keeps the storyline going on all he's doing is adding fuel to the fire but he ain't he ain't lying though oh joe oh yeah oh he's telling the truth he's the basketball player he understands the analytic people joe what they do they need to go to numbers they watch the stuff they don't know what the hell they talk about half the time they do it works analytics you know it's changed analytics is one of the reasons why game has changed now and it looks one of the reasons why the game is played the way it's played in different sports it is basketball football they going for it on fourth and 20.

1:19:06well analytics said we got it and like we crossed if we crossed the four you know the 40 yard line it might be for

1:19:12Shannon Sharpe:the 15 but there's a chance we can get it man damn analytics yeah because i got created by people that couldn't actually play the game. So I got to find a way to become involved in the game, Mocho. Yeah. So you saying a three-pointer and a layup or a dunk, those are the best shots in the game. Damn that. That's a damn lie. You can't tell me, oh, because they shooting twos and we shooting threes, we supposed to win. Damn that. You look at these finals, the game was dominated in between the three-point line, you know, and that 15 to 17-foot area, bro. You know what I mean? where you had a game-winning basket, tough shot makers, tough shot takers.

1:19:54Shannon Sharpe:That's where the game is won, always. It's always been like that. But they done got so high and mighty on these damn three-pointers and a lob threat, a dunk, a layup. It's like, bro, you trying to take away the best part of the game, which magicians work at. You know what I mean? When you watch guys like when Kobe used to play, you watch Kyrie, how these guys operate in the mid-range, bro. Shea, how they able to get – come on, man. Yeah, Ocho know how to get to a spot. Now they want you, Ocho, now that somebody run you off the three-point line, they want you to let him go by, then back past the three-point line to shoot it.

1:20:28Shannon Sharpe:Right, when you got a clean wide open spot. I got a walking 15-footer, now you want me to let him fly by and step back. The 22 or 23, man, get out of my face. And you know who need to be in charge of analytics? Who? Based on, depending on the sport, people that actually play the sport. People that actually play the sport need to be the ones in charge of analytics. Let's see what they get. Man. That understand the game. They're getting astrophysics and they're getting mechanical engineering. They're getting all these guys, the numbers guys. Don't know nothing about it. You see? Don't know nothing about it.

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