Nightcap Hour 2: Kelsey Plum REVENGE game + Olivia Miles has ARRIVED + YOUR GIRL court side is a DANGEROUS

Summary

Nightcap Hour 2: Kelsey Plum REVENGE Game, Olivia Miles Has ARRIVED, and Why Courtside Is Dangerous

Podcast: Nightcap
Hosts: Shannon Sharpe (“Unc”), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson (“Ocho”), Joe (guest analyst)
Date: May 24, 2026

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Episode Overview

The second hour of the Nightcap podcast delivers an energetic, unfiltered breakdown of recent major sports headlines, led by Shannon Sharpe, Chad Ochocinco, and guest Joe. Their focus includes the NBA Conference Finals (with in-depth takes on bench performances, defensive matchups, and Caruso’s value), a WNBA roundup—highlighting Kelsey Plum’s “revenge game” and Olivia Miles’ rookie burst—and wild courtside stories from their playing days. The hosts mix sharp basketball analysis and classic "locker room" banter, bringing real talk and humor to sports talk radio.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Thunder Bench Dominance & Defensive Matchups (02:30–16:00)

• Thunder’s bench shines: The trio analyzes how the Thunder bench outscored opponents by huge margins ("You're not beating a team if you allow the team's bench to score 76 damn points, you're not beating them.” – Joe, 02:30). Even if the bench regresses, the starting lineup is still massively outpacing their opponents.
• On Caruso’s defensive role: The discussion covers why Alex Caruso, despite being undersized, is assigned top defensive responsibilities (e.g., guarding Wembanyama).
  • “It don't matter how big the dog is. It's how much fight he got in him.” – Unc (04:53)
  • “Caruso is wiry strong. If you remember last year, they put Caruso on Jokic.” – Joe (05:02)
• Inside the matchup: Caruso’s lateral quickness and lower center of gravity compared to tall bigs gives him certain leverage advantages.
• On Shey (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander): The group explains how he manages to flourish even as defenses adjust—taking “bad shots” for others, which are sweet-spot mid-rangers for him (08:02–08:19).

Memorable Quotes:

• “When you look at OKC, they come at you in waves... You're never playing from an advantageous situation. You're always playing catch up.” – Joe (03:28)
• “The smaller guys always, to some degree, have an advantage because he has lower leverage.” – Unc (05:29)

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Depth, Role Players & NBA Team Building (16:00–25:00)

• Caruso’s Journey and Team Value: The crew marvels at Caruso’s development and shooting in the playoffs (shooting “61% from the 3 in a conference finals.” – Joe, 14:50), debating why teams like Chicago and LA let such players go ("Money... They think they can find the next guy.” – Joe, 16:19).
• Relationship analogies abound: Comparing NBA roster choices to personal relationships, Sharpe and Ochocinco riff on how teams gamble by thinking “I found her; I’ll find another her,” not realizing that experience and chemistry can't easily be replicated.
  • “The biggest mistake... is to believe that we are their only option.” – Joe (18:23)

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Athlete Lifestyle & Courtside Stories (25:00–29:38, 47:00–48:54)

• Courtside is dangerous: Wild “insider” tales surface about players “scanning the arena” for potential dates, paying ball boys for phone numbers, and the competitive atmosphere for attention even on the bench.
  • "Don't look right now, but she in the sixth row up there...I need you go get that number for me." – Unc (25:26)
• Echoes of the 'brotherhood': Athletes—from various sports—often date the “same 35 girls,” with famous clubs and exclusive events as their meeting ground.

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Ant Man’s Sportsmanship Controversy (28:35–36:53)

• Anthony Edwards (Ant Man) responds to criticism for dapping up Spurs players with 8 minutes left in a blowout playoff loss.
  • "I feel like everybody just got their own opinion...We not going back in the game...I gave them the respect they deserve, man." – Ant Man (28:52)
• Hosts' takes: Old-school perspectives debate sportsmanship vs. “key-keying” (joking) with the victors, acknowledging that either choice opens the player to criticism (“Damn if you do, damn if you don’t.” – Ocho, 33:51).

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Injuries, Back Pain, and Athletic Longevity (39:22–44:25)

• Personal stories: Shannon and the crew get real about the grind of pro sports—a recounting of playoff heartbreak (Shannon’s Broncos losing badly to Peyton Manning’s Colts), and discussion of lingering back problems, sciatica, and recovery methods.
• Getting older/maintenance: An extended riff about the necessity of taking care of the body, the dangers of overcompensation, and how everything is connected.

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WNBA Focus:

Kelsey Plum Revenge Game & Bench Standouts (52:16–57:56)

• Kelsey Plum’s explosion: Plum drops a season-high 38 points on her former Las Vegas Aces team, leading the LA Sparks to a win.
  • “Kelsey Plum for the season high 38 points... Man, she'd be getting to the money.” – Joe (52:16)
• Bench impact: Kennedy Carter now leads all players off the bench in scoring, and her journey back to the league is noted as a “godsend” for LA (54:12).
• Jackie Young’s struggles: The crew notes that Young’s unusual stat lines are due to a personal issue: “dealing with a death in the family.” – (54:50)

Notable Quote:

• “She's the guy now... She said, I need to be a number one option.” – Joe (55:33)

Olivia Miles Arrives (58:05–59:50)

• Historic rookie run: Olivia Miles of the Lynx becomes just the fifth player in WNBA history to average 15 points and 5 assists through 6 games, joining names like Caitlin Clark and Sue Bird.
  • “She’s a triple double waiting to happen.” – Joe (59:00)
• Handle and composure praised: Shannon and Ocho highlight her confidence: “When I tell y’all, she got that thing on the string...she nice.” – Unc (59:21)

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Closing WNBA Takes & Futures (59:50–61:41)

• Playoff predictions: The hosts agree the Aces, Liberty, and Lynx will all be in contention ("I ain’t taking nobody over Asia" – Joe 60:46). They admire Aces’ depth while recognizing, “they got their work cut out for them” in a rejuvenated league.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “It don't matter how big the dog is. It's how much fight he got in him.” – Unc (04:53)
• “Caruso has been basically their second-best player.” – Joe (13:09)
• "The biggest mistake...is that we believe we are their only option." – Joe (18:23)
• “When you look at OKC, they come at you in waves… You’re never playing from an advantageous situation. You’re always playing catch-up.” – Joe (03:28)
• “Kelsey Plum for the season high 38 points... Man, she’d be getting to the money.” – Joe (52:16)
• “She’s a triple double waiting to happen.” (on Olivia Miles) – Joe (59:00)
• “When I tell y’all, she got that thing on the string...she nice.” – Unc (59:21)
• "KP was coming back on a mission, and she got the job done. So congratulations K.P. sparks, but aces. Y’all be back." – Joe (57:56)

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Segment Timestamps (Key Topics)

• Thunder Bench Dominance: 02:30–13:34
• Caruso & NBA Team Building/Roles: 13:36–21:19
• Relationship & Team Analogy: 16:00–22:03
• Courtside Stories: 25:05–27:46, 47:00–48:54
• Ant Man Sportsmanship Controversy: 28:35–36:53
• Injuries, Sciatica, and Athlete Health: 39:22–44:25
• WNBA – Kelsey Plum & Bench Analysis: 52:16–57:56
• WNBA – Olivia Miles Arrival: 58:05–59:50

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Episode Tone & Style

The Nightcap team delivers rapid-fire analysis, seasoned with comedic jabs, storytelling, and insider gossip, creating a lively and approachable environment. Each host plays their role: Shannon Sharpe as the earnest, seasoned competitor, Ochocinco as the witty provocateur, and Joe as the knowledgeable analyst who revels equally in basketball minutiae and life wisdom.

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For Listeners:

If you missed this episode, you caught a candid, behind-the-scenes conversation about both the NBA and WNBA, featuring analytical sharpness laced with laughs and a healthy dose of real life advice—plus tales of what really happens on and off the court.

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[Joe]

Yeah, Joe, you're not beating a team. If you allow the team's bench to score 76 damn points, you're not beating them.

[Ocho]

Hey, will they do that again though? Will the bench be able to come out and have that kind of goddamn efficiency, man balling. The way they play, the way the bench played the other night, Joe and on.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

No other teams.

[Joe]

Yeah. But here. The problem that you have, Ocho, is that they outscored them by 32. They outscored them by 34. So even if they don't play like that, they're still outscoring them by 30. Plus. You give up 30 plus, you let the bench consistently outscore your team by 30, you're gonna lose. Yeah, you're gonna lose because your starters can't play but so much. And when you go to the bench, you find yourself coming back in. You're down 10, you're down 14. Okay. You cut it back. You go back to the bench, you find yourself back down them numbers again. So you're never playing from an advantageous situation. You're always playing catch up.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And once they weather that storm, I gave you everything I had. And you know, she over there. I want some more, Daddy. Oh, no. What you mean? When do you expect this to happen? I mean Sunday. I'll see you Wednesday.

[Unc]

Yeah. I need a nap first.

[Joe]

I need a nap. I need a nap. About two or three meals in me to build back up. I got to recharge this battery. And so when you look at OKC and you look how they come at you in waves. McCain doing what he does. J Will doing what he does. Caruso has been there, done that. He's tried, true and tested.

[Unc]

So I. I guess the next step for the Thunder is who they start at the. At the. At the three. Since A.J. mitchell gonna be out. He out. You got Jalen Williams out. So there's two perimeter guys. You really plug him.

[Joe]

Caruso starting.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Unc]

Caruso gonna start.

[Joe]

Yeah. Caruso and Lou Dort along with Shay and the two bigs.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ocho]

Hey, I'm glad you just said Crusoe's name. Hey, Joe, give me a better explanation. As great as he is, Caruso is defensively, hell, he do every goddamn thing.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

With the disadvantage in height, and they still put Caruso on goddamn Wimby. What's the reason for that?

[Unc]

It don't matter. It don't matter how big the dog is. It's how much fight he got in him. Yeah, Caruso got some fight. Oo.

[Joe]

Yes. And you got to look at. Look at. Wimby is not strong in his lower bodies, so he's at a disadvantage. Caruso is wiry strong. If you remember last year, they put Caruso on Jokic.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And he did a great job of keeping him from getting where he wanted to go.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Yogurt ain't got that kind of feet. He ain't got that kind of movement. So he. Damn. Now he not. Well, Listen, I don't want to be disrespectful like Wimby.

[Unc]

Listen, the. The smaller guys always, to some degree, has an advantage because he has lower leverage.

[Joe]

Right? He. Down here.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

He. You trying to push up top.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Down here.

[Unc]

It's hard, bro. And his feet is quicker than Wimby's, you know what I mean? So he can slide his feet. Stay in front of him. Keep him in front. And Wimby, yeah. Hell, he'll take a tough shot and make a tough shot over him. But you gonna live with that, bro.

[Joe]

Live with it?

[Unc]

Yeah. Versus. Versus him being out there winding Hardenstein up, driving by Hardenstein. And once he take off on that launch pad, what we gonna do with that? We can't do.

[Joe]

Not nothing. And. And as long as. And women haven't figured out consistently, once I get the ball up here, I don't need to bring it down here to Caruso sweet spot. I gotta just. Hey, I'm gonna keep it up here and turn and shoot over the top of you. Yeah. Every time he break it down, Caruso gonna get it.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yep. All he got. He still. He Obviously, at 22 years old, man, y' all know, he still got some maturity and policy.

[Joe]

So much to learn. Yeah. And he will be.

[Unc]

He will be great over the next 10 to 15, 20 years, however long he get a chance to play. You know, this is a learning curve for him, bro. But I know they want. They want to win in this learning process, but I just feel like with the experience that the Thunder have, understanding what they have to do now, you know, as far as the type of physicality that they have to bring to the game, there will be somebody else who will step up for the Thunder, I think, in order for them to win this game four.

[Joe]

I think the thing is, you gotta. You gotta try. I think if you go back and look, they did a great job for, like, the first half on Shea, and then he got going.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe]

And when he got going now, like, damn, what do we do if we send the double. Guys are knocking down shot. Jay Will and knocking down shot. McCain is knocking down shots. Caruso is knocking down shots. Wallace is knocking down shots. So. Damn, man. I mean. And so. So what do I do, Joe? If I go one on one, I know Shay gonna Cook me if I help with Shay. Guys are knocking down shots. It's like, okay, we brought the double. It's like the Lakers. Lakers say, you know what, we gonna make sure give it up. Okay, he gave it up. But a Jay Mitchell. But A.J. mitchell couldn't miss.

[Unc]

Right? Right.

[Joe]

Caruso couldn't miss.

[Unc]

So now, I mean, you, hey, look, you. You got. But the spurs got defenders. It ain't like they've been playing bad defense. I think they've been playing in pretty damn good. I just think, yes, when you're a great player, you're gonna take and make tough shots.

[Joe]

Absolutely.

[Unc]

And that's what Shade. That's what Shea has been doing. He's been taking a lot of 17, 18, 19 foot jump shots right inside the three. Analytically they would say them are bad damn shots. But look, those shots are shots that he will be able to get every game, bro. He just has to make them.

[Joe]

But the problem is, Joe, that's a bad shot for most people. That is a sweet spot shot for him.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I'm saying like, ah, nah, nah, hey, this is where I want him. No, this is where he want to be.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah. Listen, bro, I've been there, man. I'm talking about in the postseason to where it's so much attention on you if you get inside the damn paint. They sending the double so damn quick that you can't even turn your head fast enough to get off the ball. So you have to work on these long twos, long threes. And this is why you get guys like Dame Lillard and Steph Curry. They extended their range two, three, four steps beyond the three point line. So you have to respect them out there. Now if you come out here and guard me, I got all this real estate to come downhill and be able to work with. And I think for Shay, his three point game ain't like that yet. He'll make a three, but his two point game is so immaculate that he's able to get to his spots, pull up, and then he put him in that hucklebuck Ocho to where you start to go for these pump fakes. Okay, boom, I got you. Now let me get to the line, give me a couple free throws. Get a nice little rhythm. I done made two, three free throws in a row. Four free throws. Now this jump shot that opened up, now y' all at my mercy, you know what I mean? So now I done done done my job. Now if y' all started to bring the double team, okay, boom. Now you got check wide open for threes now you got the Wallace and the Carusos and J Dubs, you know what I mean? Now the floors opened up. So I, I think Shay understands that part.

[Joe]

Joe, God ain't finna give Shay the ability to shoot the three like goddamn Stephen. What the hell? Six, seven, and be able the way they could. Cause you gotta understand they, they two or three times through the leg and pull up in your face. That ain't really Shay's game. Shay's looking to sidestep. Yeah, and they all both off. Dame and, and Steph can sidestep, but the ability, the ability to handle the ball and shoot it like that from out there, man, he went like he'll win eight MVPs in a row. You can't let that man be able to. Cause just think about it. If you gave Dame, if you gave Dame Lillard with his ability to shoot the ball, if, if you gave him Shade's height.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

If you gave Steph Curry his ability to shoot the ball, you gave him Shade height.

[Unc]

I can't say God ain't gonna give you anything.

[Joe]

Hell no. I mean, so you want, so you won't. You want Shaq, with his size and his dominance to be able to shoot 90% from the three, I mean from the free throw line and to be able to shoot a three point just, let's just say a 15 foot shot.

[Ocho]

That's not fair.

[Joe]

Shaq Davage, 50 easy. I can't give, you can't, I can't give him everything. I gotta take something. It's like AI. Just imagine if AI was 68, can handle the ball like he handling Cat quick like he was and play ball. God had to make him 6 foot, a buck 65. That ain't fair. Yeah, yeah, got, I got, look, he got to take something.

[Unc]

Yeah,

[Joe]

but I, I, the thing is, is that, you know, I've got to be able to live with something. I got to be able to live with something. So if I shut his water off, I got to be living, I got to be able to live with holes popping up elsewhere.

[Unc]

Too good of a team.

[Joe]

I got a leak somewhere.

[Unc]

They too.

[Joe]

But I know Shay is the main, Shay is the main source. I want to neutralize that as much as I possibly can. Because if I don't neutralize that, I ain't got no chance. I don't, I have no chance to be.

[Unc]

I, I think even though Shea is great, obviously two time mvp, one time champ, they just too good of a damn team. As good as he is I mean, you. You look at the guys who they. They've been having a different guy pretty much every game outside of him to step up and really help win games since game one. Like, they have a plethora of guys so they can throw at you and everybody. I mean, from top to bottom, bro, they know they roll. Do y' all know how many games have went by to where the big J Dub hadn't played? And you mean to tell me you throw his ass in there like this? Game three, hostile environment, and that man give you 18 points for what? Five for six from three. Come on, man.

[Joe]

And that's the thing. Joe, he came in out the rip. As soon as he came in, they left him open. He hit a shot. I'm like, well, damn. And I know they said, hey, let's see if he can make a couple, right? Well, he make a couple of those, he gonna get in the rhythm. And now you got hell on your hands. And then guess what? Jerry McCain come in. He's knocking it down. Wallace. Knocking it down. I think Caruso started 3 for 3 from the 3.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Caruso has been basically their second best player.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Because he's been the second most. Because he's. Shay's been the guy, but Caruso's been right there.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Because I said, joe, ain't no way he gonna make. He gonna keep stay this hot. He stayed that hot. From the three point, like, what. What's Caruso shooting from the three? He probably shooting 60 plus damn percent.

[Unc]

He probably. Yeah, yeah. He been hot. He been hot. He been hot. I'm looking. I'm looking for.

[Joe]

That's Ghost Pepper hot.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah. I'm looking for check homer to step up, though, in game four. You know, I'm looking for him to be a little more assertive, you know, put his stamp on this series because he's an all star. He's a hell of a player. And hell, we acting like Chick ain't seven one, seven two.

[Joe]

Hell, well, he damn sure don't want to deal with that 7 5. Cause they got Caruso, they got everybody else dealing with it. And you first team, all the NBA. Ocho, how that look?

[Ocho]

Hey, you.

[Joe]

You the number. You are. You defensive player. You're a defensive player of the year candidate. You are all NBA. I mean, you are NFL defensive player, and all of a sudden, n. I ain't gonna deal with oo you. Hey, you go get n. Hell, nah. You get it.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe]

Wow. Caruso shooting better from the three than he is from the two.

[Unc]

Hey, look for the thunder, though. An oo. Yeah, you don't want, you don't want check guarding right off dump.

[Ocho]

You.

[Unc]

I, I want Hardenstein guarding him off dump just so he can lean on and wear him down a little bit. Then, you know, in the second half, you'll start to see. Check on him a little more after, you know, you didn't kind of took some of his legs. I, I think that's the strategy that OKC is going with. And obviously, hell, since game one, you know, it's been pretty effective if you ask me.

[Joe]

Yeah, but I mean, Caruso shooting 61 from the three.

[Unc]

Hey, man, that's scorching, bro.

[Joe]

And, and, and, and, and, and a, a championship. I mean, think about it. I mean, the guy might have a game or two, but that's the regular season. He's shooting 61% from the 3 in a conference finals.

[Unc]

Listen, they have, they have a bunch of unselfish guys. Yeah, they have a bunch of guys who understand how to get the spots on the floor, meaning get inside that paint. We always talk about guys in basketball like you got guards who always can find a way and maneuver and finagle the defense to where they can always get inside the teeth of the defense. Man, you're gonna be pretty damn good because if you don't score, you're always gonna be able to create opportunities because the defense is always going to collapse and you'll be able to kick out for wide open threes and, and Caruso and Wallace and those guys, they've been recipients of a lot of that. That them great passes, bro. All they got to continue to do is keep making shots here.

[Ocho]

Hey, Uncle Joe.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Ocho]

Look at, look at how valuable Crusoe is, huh?

[Unc]

Yes.

[Ocho]

Give me a better understanding of what goes in coach's mind, what goes on in the mind of a gm and understanding how valuable this player is, especially the way he's playing in okc. What the hell was Polinka think about. What the hell do they think about when he was over there in Chicago? What would he do, huh?

[Joe]

Money.

[Unc]

Money.

[Joe]

Because you think he's showing you his value.

[Ocho]

Money shouldn't be a problem.

[Joe]

But they think. They think they can find the next guy. Well, we find. I think Caruso was undrafted free agent, wasn't he? So. Yeah, I. They feel. Ocho, we. We get this guys like this. You got you a nice little young lady. She nice. Coca Cola. Not the 2 liter either. Coke figure, you know, that's the slim bottle. Hard bottle. Yeah. Hey, got a. Got A nice head on the shoulders. Hey, do. Hey, whatever you need. Got you what we think. I found her. I found me another one.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Women think the silent thing. Yeah, I got you. I'll get me another one.

[Ocho]

Hey,

[Joe]

yeah.

[Ocho]

Hey, hey, hey. Joe and Unc, a lot of us have a problem overestimating our value and thinking we'll be able to find equal or better than.

[Joe]

Yeah,

[Ocho]

but that's guilty.

[Joe]

Guilty

[Unc]

by.

[Joe]

Hey, my grandma tell me all the time, boy, your eyes bigger than your stomach. Oh, hey, yeah, that's me. That used to be me.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Not realizing. Yes, sir. Is that when you find somebody and you with them for a period of time, they know you. Now, you would have to have somebody relearn you. You're gonna have to relearn them.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

All the things that, you know, maybe she overlooked. Now she might not overlook it.

[Unc]

Right?

[Joe]

Because guess what? The worst mistake we guys and gals can make is to believe that we're someone's only option.

[Ocho]

Hey, do me a favor, say that one more time for the people in the back that ain't hear you.

[Joe]

That is the biggest mistake that we can make, guys and gals, is that we believe that we are their only option.

[Unc]

Hey, hey, hey. Thinking. Thinking you ain't the only one trying to be the only one. Huh? Huh? Yeah.

[Joe]

Huh?

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And you know, we got very similar taste when it come to women. Women that like, look like that got very similar taste when it come to men.

[Ocho]

Come on now, take your time. It ain't even Sunday. But go ahead and preach,

[Joe]

okay? You keep think you the only one, right? You know, you looking on.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

So Rob looking at, man, and he was unbelievable with LeBron. Look at. Go back and look at the Lakers when Caruso and LeBron was on the court along with AD go look at those plus minuses. Look at the a boy they get. Not in transition. Caruso could defend at a high level. Lebron could run the offense. Hey, they come to trap LeBron. LeBron kicking the. Caruso. Caruso knock it down. AD was back there.

[Unc]

Hey, but what starts to happen is with these championship caliber teams like okc and we talk about being dynasties, y' all know what happens. These other teams come in, they start to take a lot of your good role players. You know, you may have to overpay them a little bit, but that's okay. We gotta get them off your damn hands. You know what I mean?

[Joe]

Exactly.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I tell you what, but that's the thing. We get that a lot. Teams do that all the time. Well, we found him. We'll find somebody else. I found her, I'll find me another her. I found him. I'll find me another him. But that process of relearning someone over again, man, and the thing that. What you spell like, man, I. I ain't gonna never put my. In the things that he or she will put up with in one relationship, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to put up with it in another one.

[Ocho]

Hey, you know. You know what? The. The more options you have, Uncle Joe, the less tolerance you are for the man.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Ocho]

Well, you're gonna keep playing the game, hoping or thinking because of who you are or what you have going on that they ain't gonna put you through the same. And statistically, if you look at it, you can keep picking and keep picking and keep picking and think you're getting better and better and better. Well, it's just the same. It's covered up in gold.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, same.

[Ocho]

Just covered up.

[Unc]

Same one.

[Joe]

It might. It's either baked, it's fried, it's roasted, but it's still food.

[Ocho]

Same thing. And only the only people that have that, that are experienced in those areas that have done it over time throughout the years will understand what I'm talking about.

[Joe]

Ocho, the mistake is you. I got me. Hey, ain't nobody, oh, nobody know about this one, okay?

[Unc]

Right, right.

[Joe]

Because you hadn't seen her with that. But don't think you ain't found the gold mine. She might have been a gold mine, but I guarantee you somebody extracted some of that gold from that.

[Unc]

Yes, sir.

[Joe]

I'm. Stop. I'm going. I ain't going. That's it. Joe, don't you. I'm done. That's all. That's it. That's it. That's it. I'mma keep it. I'm keeping it real with you because

[Ocho]

I know how to hit you in church. You know how to hit the preacher in church when you preach.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

[Joe]

I'm telling you, because when you sit down and talk to.

[Unc]

Hey, hey.

[Joe]

You know, hey, we gonna take this thing a little serious, okay? I mean, what. You ever talk. You talk to anybody that, you know, play professional sports?

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Well, one time, you know, I had y'. All. I'm walking. Hold on, hold on. How long ago was this time? Yeah, I'm telling you.

[Unc]

Yeah, man. You see it a lot, bro. You see it a lot. You see. I mean, I've seen so much, man, from teammates having girlfriends Who. Whom I've already seen was somebody else. But, you know, you keep a closed mind. They ain't got nothing to do with me.

[Joe]

They ain't nothing to do with me.

[Unc]

Ain't none of my damn business.

[Joe]

They got nothing to do with me.

[Unc]

Yeah, it ain't got nothing. Ain't none of my business.

[Ocho]

Hey, you know, it's funny, too, Joe, when you think about it. You know, there's a saying. They always say, regardless. Regardless of sport you play, it seemed like all the athletes date the same 35 girls. Same ones, the same.

[Joe]

Because you know why?

[Ocho]

Always seem to always keep someone in the roster that plays a sport, whether it's basketball, you know, whether it's NFL. It's just. They mlb, same ones.

[Joe]

Y' all sleep right now. Because y' all don't. Y' all don't. I'm telling you, you sleep on the MLB players don't do that.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Don't do

[Ocho]

mlb.

[Joe]

Look here, man. Okay. Hey, look here. And you. You say, man, why is it about the end of the player they date the same 3550? Because those same 3550 are in the same places that those MLB, NFL, and NBA players are in the mix. Yeah. So they have access. The reason why you can go pull out 30, 40, $50,000 out your account, because you have access to that. They have access to that. So when they're at Harriet's or Delilah's or that these top live. Who you think's in there?

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And who let the doorman. Who they letting in there? God. Going in there, baby.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe]

Get on up in there.

[Unc]

Yeah. They just got to be in the vicinity. They got to be. They in the place.

[Ocho]

That's all they take on, Joe.

[Joe]

That's it, man.

[Unc]

Stop playing. You already know what's going on.

[Ocho]

Come on, Joe.

[Joe]

You know, I don't got to. I don't got too old, but it was upon a time I was a lead dog.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I'm just on the porch up. Hey. I'm like my old man, my grandfather, Grandma. Grandpa, grandfather, Grandma. They on the porch. Hey.

[Ocho]

Rocking back and forth like you in the color.

[Unc]

Hey, hey. And in basketball, we sit over there on that bench, you know, five minutes left in the game. Let's say we up 20, 30. Hey, hey. Cats. Go to picking. Go to picking your girl off, man. You see shorty up there? Six row up there? Don't look right now, but she in the sixth row up there. She up there.

[Joe]

Don't.

[Unc]

Don't look right now because I don't want to make it obvious. She in the sixth row up there. She got a white shirt on. Yeah, her homegirl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I need you go get that. Get that number for me. Yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, hey, hey, Joe, man, I saw her. She used to date, man. She used to date. Oh, I wonder. She still ask if she still would? Nah, she said they bit good enough. Yeah, I didn't know him like that.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe, them boy be sniping from the bench, huh?

[Unc]

Man, what you talking about, Ocho? Hey, it ain't nothing to sit over there on the bench and just scan the arena. You just sitting over there, scan in and like. Yeah, you may.

[Joe]

Hey, hey, you.

[Unc]

You looking 30, rolls up. Damn, boy, I see some potential up there. Yeah, yeah. Pink shirt.

[Joe]

Preseason.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Now, in. In the regular season, I'm focused. But the preseason, yeah, Boy, I like the body, man. It. Once I lock it. Once I lock that. That cross here like a. Yeah, man. Man, I went there. I was in Arizona with the last preseason game. Yeah, man, this girl walked by us, man. They say, hey, sharp, man, did you see who just. I said, nah, she must have known I didn't see her because she came back to get my attention. She walked back.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I said, oh, hell no. I said, hey, my man, check this out, man. Hey, go ask her what her name is and see what's up, what's really cracking. Hey, he said, such and such, blah, blah, blah. He came back, he had a number.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I said, hey, that's you. I said, but thank you. I ain't there for all that, but thank you.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, like I told you, 20, 20 year old Shay, 23, 25, was here

[Ocho]

when you as well.

[Joe]

Was I?

[Unc]

Hey, Ocho, you tell the ball boy. Yeah. Go get that number for me.

[Joe]

You.

[Unc]

You pay him. You get a ball boy. Probably about 2, 300. Just take care of them, you know, for going up there. Yeah, yeah, man. Who else gonna go do your dirty work for you? Why you? Why you. Look, look. Hey, hey, hey. Don't go up there right now. Wait till the game over with. Yeah, we gonna be going to the back. You going up there and get that? Yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, hey, hey, hey. And don't let nobody see you. Hey. Cause I'm telling you, somebody overbid you.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

I bid you. Hey, hey, how much? Hey, how much? How much. How much you give you to go up there? He gave me 300. I'll give you five. Guess who gonna get the number?

[Unc]

Yeah, hey, I'm talking. I Done seen it.

[Joe]

Boy, that's.

[Ocho]

That's funny that way.

[Joe]

Hey, bro, the stuff that. Look, I said I could literally write a book. I've seen. I ain't gonna say nothing. I don't even want y'.

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[Joe]

Hey, but I've seen. I've seen some things. Yes, sir.

[Ocho]

Same.

[Joe]

Same at the altar.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Whoa.

[Ocho]

Take your time. What we talking about?

[Joe]

Another dude doesn't move then. But anyway, we move it on. Ant man has also responded to the backlash of him dabbing up spurs players with eight minutes left. Let's take a listen to what Ant man had to say about this. They were trying to make, you know, a big deal. If you laughing them up at the 8 minute mark, tell us why you did that.

[Ant Man]

I mean, it was no reason why, like, everybody just. I feel like everybody just got their own opinion. Like, yes, eight minutes in the game, but we not going back in the game. When you win a playoff series, everybody's celebrating at the end of the game, like, so they gonna be smiling while we. Where I'm pissed off and we just lost. So I was just like, let me go and congratulate these boys because I ain't trying to be kiki with y' all after y' all don't whip my ass. I didn't want to go down at all. Like, then what they would have been saying about me, like, that would have been a whole nother conversation. So I gave them the respect they deserve, man. Like, I could have waited to the end of the game. That's what. That's other people perspective. But yeah, I did what I did.

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[Unc]

Yeah, it ain't. You know,

[Joe]

there's no easy way when somebody kicking your ass to accept things, to. To accept defeat. Ain't no easy way other than to go do it. Now. Football is different. Yes, obviously, you know, in basketball, Joe, y' all right there because a lot of times, hey, we just gone. I mean a lot of times guys know each other, but like you said, I Ain't want to be Kiki kid bro. Because if I'm, if I'm smiling, they're gonna say, well, I ain't taking that serious. Yeah, yeah, I did what I did. He already accepted defeat, bro. We down 30 with eight minutes to go. Ain't no coming back from that. So there's no, there's no, there's no easy way for Ant man to. I guess they didn't want the, the situation with Isaiah where he doesn't shake the guy's hand and things of that nature.

[Ocho]

Hey, that's, hey, that's one of those situation, Uncle Joe. Damn if you do. Damn if you don't.

[Joe]

Yep.

[Ocho]

Then obviously all the, all the, all the talking heads, all the ponants, all the analysts say, oh, it's a sign of weakness to have your, your leader, you know, eight minutes before a game, shaking your opponent's hand and just get it out the way. But obviously Ant had his explanation for it. And you know how he feel. He don't really care. He gonna continue to do it his way and march by march to the beat of his own drum.

[Unc]

Yeah, he. I, I think it ain't that.

[Joe]

I don't.

[Unc]

I wouldn't say that he don't care. I think he has so much respect for the spurs and how they competed against them and basically how they whoop their ass. If you just want me to keep it 100 that, you know, after them series, I wouldn't necessarily say it's a key, key thing after they done beat you. Yeah, they happy, they celebrating, they moving on. You know, you just wanna. As soon as the buzzer in Ant man thinking, man, I just want to get my ass up out of here. I mean, so I'm gonna take the initiative to just go and dap these boys up now. But, yeah, I know, man. Old school cats. It was never like that, bro.

[Joe]

You know, you ain't.

[Unc]

As a matter of fact, damn old school. You ain't never seen nobody go dab Nobody up with 7, 8 minutes left on no clock, you know what I mean? So I can see the drawback that he's getting from it. I can understand that part, but I can see it from his perspective as well.

[Joe]

The thing is, you bet. If you up like that, you better get your ass out the game. Stay still, be in the game. And y' all up 30 points and see what happened to you. See what happens.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, oh, you still in here, huh? Y' all ain't winning by enough. Okay, okay. Hey, and it's different. Ocho, you know us. I mean, look, I'm coming to the A. Whoever I know. Hey, man, good game. Good luck. Hey, stay healthy, y'. All. Go win this thing. I'm out.

[Unc]

Yeah, I'm out. He wanna hit me.

[Joe]

Hey, I ain't all that. You don't beat. Hold on. You don't beat me, even if you my friend, you don't beat me

[Unc]

because it's hard. It's hard in the moment when emotions are high. You know what I mean? Like, damn, bro, we didn't got our ass kicked on our home floor like this. Like, I ain't really got no worries when this buzzer go off, man. Just let me get in that shower, get my ass up out of here, and get home.

[Joe]

Yeah, y', all, definitely that's the best thing for you to do. Because if you play my team and you've been talking. Cause I'm on the field. Hey, I need to go out there for the. Kneel down for the meal now. I need to be out there. Ocho. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All that talking. Oh, oh, big mouth Sharp ain't gonna get nothing. No, man, shut up, man. Hey, I. I tell you what. Whoa, whoa. Ain't no. No more fighting. You had 59 minutes and 50 seconds to fight. Now you want to fight after the game?

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Nah, nah. I'm gonna talk now. Now, what you got to say? See, I'm gonna rub it in. I'm that type. I'm a sore loser. I'll be the first to admit that. But I'm a worse winner. Oh, boy. Don't you let me win. Don't you let me win. And you've been talking. Craving.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, man. Yes. You're gonna want to fight me, and I ain't stopping, punk. Oh, I'm asking.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

I'm telling you, don't let me win.

[Unc]

Hey, that's why you got cats. I'm saying. Wait. I mean, as far as the winning part, I ain't like that. But I'm a damn sore loser. That's why I work hard as. I don't know what. Because I hate losing, bro. Yeah.

[Joe]

Yo, if you think about. If you hate losing, I'm worse at winning. I'm worse at that. Oh, yes. Cause I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna make it hurt.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Cause you shouldn't have been running your mouth. You have so much to say at the start of the game. Why you not talking now? You mad? Oh, ask the boys about the Steelers. We beat them in the championship game in Three Rivers. Man, shut up, boy, I swear. You ain't finished. Swing nothing. You finish. Swing your ass off this field. Yeah, look, we need to celebrate. We need the whole field to celebrate. And we need y' all out so we can bring our little five. Little, you know, 5,000 fans to celebrate with us. Now get your ass off this field. Man, please, man, I don't. I. I don't know how. Joe, I'm gonna be honest. I'm trying to think playoff game. What's the worst. Oh, we beat. We got be. Oh, man. Lord have mercy. My last game I ever played, man. Andy beat us so bad.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Who the quarterback was Peyton, man.

[Joe]

Marvin Harrison probably had, like 150. Brandon Stoke. Go look up the wild card game. Broncos against the Colts, 2004. It was like Dallas Clark was there, huh? Boy, they beat us so bad. Perfect. Peyton might have had a perfect quarterback rating. I mean, Joe Ocho, man, when I say they beat the brakes off us, I don't know if I've ever got beat that bad. That's what I knew. That's what I knew. I was like, oh, yeah, Peyton probably had, like, 380, 350, 380, like four touchdowns. Cause I think Brandon Stokely had two. Oh, he had 377. See?

[Unc]

Damn.

[Joe]

Five touchdowns. Damn. Marvin Harrison, how many.

[Ocho]

Seven catches for 133 and two touchdowns.

[Joe]

Marvin had seven for 133 and two touchdowns. Brandon Stoker might have had more than that. Brandon Stokely had four, 444 and. And two touchdowns.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, they cooked. Hey, but I'm tell you what I did, y'. All. I knew this gonna be my last game. I said, you know what? I might have never get another chance to shake Peyton hand. Dabbed him up. I was out.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Probably had, like, three.

[Ocho]

Five for 31.

[Joe]

Five for 31. Man. At my back, man. Look here. And I ended up having to get two epidurals, man, my back was so jacked up. Oo.

[Ocho]

And Joe, well, you. You. Your back was messed up from lifting heavy, huh?

[Joe]

No, my back was. My back was messed up because I was getting old. That was. My back was messed up for. Nah, I slept. I slept wrong with something, and it just would. It just would. It just would not. It spasmed up, and it just would not let go. I mean, I don't know if anybody ever had back spasm, but it. That's it. It ran into my sciatic sciatica,

[Unc]

man. That's sciatica. Ain't nothing to play with.

[Joe]

I was driving like this here Ocho

[Ocho]

sitting sideways like that.

[Joe]

But hey, somebody. But we. I didn't pick up something in back and have to lay on the floor, man. But I end up having to have two epidurals for that.

[Ocho]

Hey, how you. How you got rid of your cicadas?

[Joe]

I got epidural. Had two epidurals. I had ended up having to go to a doctor, and they injected me twice. First time it didn't. It didn't do because it had gotten so bad. And then they come back in there, they put. Put you under that machine, pinpoint it, a big needle, sciatica. I told you, it's sciatica. Circadias are an insect that comes every so often. Sometimes you have a 17 year cicada and. But a sciatic is a nerve. No, you said circadian.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe, you. You had us.

[Unc]

Nah, sciatica. Nah, nah, I ain't had Ocho. Nah, nah. Yes, but I had. I had a. I got a. I had a homeboy who had it. And it would be times he couldn't even play like, you know, he walk in like he's just a sharp shooting pain down his leg.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Unc]

Yeah. He said he couldn't. He couldn't even play. Who had it?

[Joe]

Bron missed all that time.

[Unc]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Bron missed 15 games to start the season with.

[Unc]

Yeah. That's what Braun had to start the season.

[Ocho]

This. This season. That's what it was.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Ocho]

Hell, no.

[Joe]

When he was in Miami, he missed those two, three weeks. Yes. Man, that thing will tell you. Whoa. Have you. Have you walking sideways.

[Unc]

Ain't no worse than that.

[Ocho]

I wonder what that. What that's from, huh? They got to be a. A reason.

[Joe]

You have a pinch, you have an impingement on a nerve, and sometimes you can't. You can't control body function. You pee on yourself, you poop on yourself. What? What? Yeah, absolutely.

[Unc]

That must be a severe case.

[Joe]

Yes, yes.

[Unc]

Damn. But you know what, what's funny is I have a lot of people who come to my yoga studio who have sciatica and they come in there to put, you know, put their heat on there. Heat it up, stretch it out.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

You try to do. You try to open. You try to open it up.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And that's why you try to keep your core tight.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Try to keep that prayer, you know, keep. Because everything, your body is like an automobile and it works in unison. And when everything is working harmonious, everything goes good. But if the rear end, you get a flat tire and you keep driving around on that flat tire, or you put the donut on there, you're only supposed to go X amount of miles on that donut, but you keep going. And now all of a sudden, it's going to mess up your front end.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Then all of a sudden, your rear end is going to be messed up. That's how your body function. If everything is not an ankle or knee or hip, it's gonna throw something out, and the next thing you know, you effed up.

[Unc]

Gotta take maintenance on that body, bro. Yeah. You start overcompensating, next thing you know, here, you're gonna hurt something else.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe, you ain't give me the little vitamins you told me to take, right?

[Unc]

Oh, you trying to get you some vitamins.

[Ocho]

And, I mean, y'. All. I mean, listen, I. I ain't never had no issue with my body or none, but I'm gonna. I'm test it out.

[Unc]

Well, I mean, if it ain't. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You know, you. You seem to be doing pretty damn good.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Yeah. I'm just. I'm just trying to beat it to the point just in case something creep up on me. Joe.

[Unc]

Hey, how'd it go today?

[Joe]

Then you.

[Unc]

Then you have a.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe. Hey. Hey, Joe. Hey, boy. Your boy had eight today, boy.

[Joe]

You had eight.

[Ocho]

Yeah, eight today. I don't know where the hell T found. He got damn Hoopers from. Well, everybody on the goddamn course. Six, eight, six, seven. What?

[Joe]

Hold on. How you figure. How you talking about you had eight? You called me and told me you had 1893.

[Ocho]

I said eight, nine, and three. It sounds like 18. Hey, hey, Joe. Hey, T. T. Higgins must have played. He must have hooped in high school or something.

[Unc]

He could play.

[Ocho]

Yeah. What, you know T by 6, 5.

[Unc]

Yeah, they get money, man.

[Ocho]

They're getting money, boy. Hey, them dudes is dudes that they can't. They from overseas. Yeah, dude flew in from China yesterday. Joe. Young bull flew from China, made him new. Hey, them boy begins the money. We played against, obviously, here in Knoxville. I'm assuming it's like an AAU team and some of the players, you know, some going to Tennessee. Joe. It wasn't nobody on the court maybe about three people shorter than. Goddamn. Six, six, six, six, seven, three. And obviously, I'm one of them.

[Joe]

Eight turnovers, three rebounds, Joe. That's the. That's the 80 head.

[Unc]

Oh, man, come on.

[Ocho]

That's Unc making up numbers, Joe.

[Joe]

I mean, hey, where the footage at?

[Unc]

I ain't seen no footage.

[Ocho]

Yeah, I'm gonna tell, I'm gonna tell Teach. I'm gonna tell me that thing, they record everything.

[Joe]

Let you be the only one making up numbers. I'd make up my own too.

[Ocho]

Hey, hey, don't be, don't be hating on my little eight.

[Joe]

Send the video because you, you hit me earlier.

[Unc]

I hit you back, but you ain't answer.

[Ocho]

Oh, I would hit you when I was in front of everybody so they could tell you what I would get. I would get to the money on what?

[Joe]

I don't know. That sounds suspect, Joe.

[Unc]

Hey, yeah, well, I'm waiting for the footage. I'm waiting.

[Ocho]

Last time I was the suspect, but I was what, in 87?

[Joe]

Yeah, we saw you at the big three all star tournament. We tried, we tried that. Triple zeros.

[Unc]

Don't, don't bring, don't bring that up.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, yo, you were there. So you saw it.

[Unc]

No. You know, I was hurt. I didn't.

[Joe]

You know, that's right. That's right, Joe. My bad. You're right.

[Shaquille O'Neal]

You're right.

[Unc]

Yeah, I, I, I watched it though.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe. Hey, Joe. Don't worry about that. You know you got coming, huh?

[Unc]

What?

[Ocho]

Today was a nice warm up. So. Not now. I gotta like, like a different perspective on dudes that's that tall.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe, that hard boy get around.

[Unc]

Guess what? I'm gonna get your ass. I'm gonna give your ass another perspective. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna give you another damn perspective. Don't worry about it.

[Ocho]

Hey.

[Joe]

Huh?

[Ocho]

I know I'll be on here talking trash, but it's a different ball game when you got somebody in front of you. Six, eight, six, seven. Yeah, get around that way, man. Listen here. Yeah, hey, but I had to hit a U turn a few times.

[Joe]

How tall you think Joe is?

[Ocho]

Oh, I mean, in front of me. Joe by six one.

[Unc]

Okay. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry. I'm gonna make his ass respect me.

[Joe]

You go, hey, hey.

[Unc]

You gonna keep my name out your damn mouth. That's what you gonna do.

[Ocho]

Hey, everybody tell you something. The world gonna call me the ISO Stopper boy when we done, boy, you hit me.

[Joe]

The ISO Stopper.

[Unc]

The ISO Stopper man, please.

[Ocho]

But, but all jokes aside, it is put the game just in general because you know, I don't, I don't who. I don't play basketball. But being on that court with them damn trees like that, I already know how in the hell Jalen Brunson and all the dudes that are. That, you know, whether you play above the rim or not. But if you six, three and under,

[Joe]

the hell you play with these dudes?

[Unc]

Hey, you know them dudes? Them guys six, three and under Ocho, they. They know how to use their bodies, you know? Hey, hey, when we talk, when me, you and Unc talk about football, you know, you, you. You a footwork guy. You ain't really trying to let nobody get their hands on you. You ain't trying to let nobody touch you.

[Joe]

Oh, no. And.

[Unc]

And in basketball, you at your size, you're gonna have to be a little physical. You gotta take some contact to be able to finish over them big guys. It's just part of it.

[Ocho]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's me, that's me. That's me. Yeah. I like, I like it, I like it. I had a good time. I had a good time. That was fun, though. Hey, Knox. Hey. You knew Knoxville was small Tennessee. Yeah, small, small little town, boy.

[Joe]

I mean, it's a college town.

[Ocho]

Hey, hey. People nice as hell, boy. People real nice.

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[Ocho]

Real nice.

[Joe]

Yeah, it's a college town. Kelsey Plum for the season high 38 points. Erica Wheeler had three point. I'll go ahead three point shot, three pointer. Late in the fourth quarter of the LA Sparks defeated the Las Vegas Aces, 101 to 95. Las Vegas, the reigning WNBA champ saw their four game winning streak in. The Aces had won 20 of their last 21 regular season games after finishing the 2025 regular season on a 16 game winning streak. Man, I showed. I show. Hate to see my girl go kp. Man, she nice that left it man, she'd be doing it. She be getting to the money.

[Unc]

They got. They had too many damn guards, huh?

[Joe]

They did. Well, you know you got, you got, you know you got Jackie, you got Chelsea. But Jackie, I don't know what's Jackie been on lately? This, I think this might be the second game. Jackie's going scoreless.

[Unc]

Yeah, but hold on, what's the new guard they got over there? A little light skinned girl.

[Joe]

Oh, Kennedy Carter. Oh, she'd be Kennedy Carter like that.

[Unc]

She been getting to it, boy.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. I don't know I don't know why Chicago let her, let her go, but oh yeah, she's been a godsend.

[Unc]

Yeah, she let him in scoring perfect

[Joe]

from the three point line. Joe, eight or 13, she had 23. Jewel Lord had 10. But Jack, I don't know what's going on with J. Anybody know what's going on? Is she injured? Cause I think Jackie, this might be the second game Jackie Young is going scoreless. Or she might have had one point or two points the last game. She ain't herself. Asia gave you 24 and 15. Melissa Smith gave you 22. Chelsea, Chelsea, grade the point. God, she gave you 12. But I don't know what's going on with Jackie Young.

[Unc]

Hold on. So the Carter, the Carter girl, she been coming off the bench getting money like that?

[Joe]

Okay, what you say?

[Unc]

Oo a Joe, The Carter girl, she been coming off the bench. I thought she was starring. She been coming off the bench the whole time?

[Joe]

No, she come out the bench.

[Unc]

She getting money, boy.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah. I don't know what's up. She was out of the league last year, right? Ken Kennedy Carter. Yeah, she cuz she played. She played. She fights to not Joe, I mean. Yeah, she get after you. Yeah, you know, remember that? I think she had dusted when they had the hard file on Caitlyn. Right, she had the hard file on Caitlyn. Caitlin Clark and she went overseas, she came back, she's been a great pickup. Yeah, she leading all players off the bench this year in scoring.

[Unc]

Hold on, did they just, did they just get.

[Joe]

Yeah, they said Jackie is dealing with a death in the family. So that's why her, her play has been a little subpar because she's phenomenal.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And that's, you know, that's why I said that. Is that because I'm looking at her numbers and I'm like, that ain't like her. She can defend, she could score the basketball. She's a phenomenal player. That explains it. She's got some things going on. That's right. Now that's bigger than basketball that's impacting her play.

[Unc]

Hey, hey, but if you. Kelsey Plum, boy, you loving, you loving giving them girls hell though. Give them 38. Your former team. Yeah, yeah. Cause I'm sure, I'm sure she probably wanted to stay in Vegas. I mean they had a nice squad.

[Joe]

But, but like you said, Joe, I mean the only. She's the, she's the, she's the, she's the guy now. Yeah, you know, I'm just.

[Ocho]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

Yeah, she's the guy. Now when you got Asia, when you got Chelsea, you the third option.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

She said I need to be a number one option. Yeah.

[Unc]

Yeah, because she.

[Joe]

Hey, she could flat out score because remember before Caitlyn Clark broke her, she had the most points in women's college basketball hil. History.

[Unc]

Sure did.

[Joe]

And that lefty, she can get to the money. She can get to it. She can shoot it. Hey, she got. She can shoot the three ball. She got a nice midi and you talking about put it on the floor and get to the rim.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, absolutely.

[Unc]

Oh yeah. I watched her play in the. The rival league when they were playing one on ones.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Unc]

And she. She. She was getting money. She. Obviously she didn't win it, but she held her own in there. Yeah, she nice.

[Ocho]

Hey, Joe, you were just at a game recently, huh?

[Unc]

Yeah, man. I wanted to watch the Dream. I took my daughter yesterday. We wanted to watch the Dream play. We left. We had to leave at halftime. Cause the, the. The game came on like right at half. I thought the. I thought the dream played at 6:30.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Unc]

And I thought the. The spurs and the Thunder was gonna play at 8:30. So that was a two hour. I was like two hours. We probably leave me and four quarter. Yeah, the Dream didn't play the 7:30. So we left at halftime. But it was right. They were kicking them girls butt. The Dream kicked they butt.

[Joe]

Yeah, but no but, but, but Plum is unbelievable. I hate to see a go too. I hate to see her go. She got. And she got a great personality. She's awesome. You know, being, you know, going to a game and talking to see it. Talking to her and Chelsea after the game and Asia, it's just. It's just great to see him. They still got a good team now. They got a good.

[Unc]

Oh yeah.

[Joe]

I mean I think they're going to be there. They're going to be there when it's all said and done. I think the Liberty they got sat to Saali. They brought her over Inescu's back. You know, Stewie is. Stewie Jean Quail coming off an injury. She's gonna. They're gonna. They're gonna be. They're gonna be where they need to be when it's all said and done. But I'm not. I'm not overly concerned with the Aces. They're four and two. The. The strange thing is that both of the games they've lost have been at home. Remember they got blown out by the Mercury the first game.

[Unc]

Yeah, yeah.

[Joe]

But I could Understand that. They got the ring ceremony. They all that bling in my eye. I can't see y' all go do what y' all gonna do. But this game right here, y' all know KP was gonna come back on a mission.

[Unc]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

KP was coming back on a mission, and she got the job done. So congratulations, K.P. sparks, but aces. Y' all be back.

[Unc]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joe]

Olivia Miles is an elite company to start her rookie season. The number two overall pick is the fifth player in WNBA history to average 15 points and five assists through her first six career games. Obviously, Caitlin Clark did it in 2024. Sabrina Unescu did it in 2020. Candace Parker did it in 2008. Candace Parker also was defensive player of the year, and she was an MVP in a rookie season. Sue Bird did it way back in 2002, and now Olivia Miles done has done it. 15 points, five assists, five rebounds, 1.5 steals for the four and two links, who are tied for the third in the league standing. Hey, she was on that. She was at. Started out at Notre Dame, her and Hana Hgo. She ends up transferring, going, I think, going to tcu. But, no, she. She's. She's a phenomenal player. She can do it all.

[Unc]

Hey, you talking about.

[Joe]

She's the triple double waiting to happen.

[Unc]

Hey, hold on, Ocho. You talking about a bop bop, man, this girl here got some real game, bro. Oh, yeah, I'm talking about. She got a real handle, Ocho.

[Ocho]

She can.

[Unc]

Hey, she's super crafty. I enjoy watching the play. I enjoy watching her play. What, she was at TCU or something?

[Joe]

Tcu? Yeah, she started out at Notre Dame and ended up going to tcu.

[Unc]

Yes, yes. She. Hey, I watched her get money, bro. She looked good out there. I think when I. When I watch, you know, whether it's men or women's, I'm. I'm looking for, especially when you're a ball handler. Are you comfortable under pressure? And, man, when I tell y', all, she got that thing on the string, that girl out there handling that rock, getting to where she want to get to. She nice. She's nice.

[Joe]

But they beat the Link. Excuse me. The Links beat the sky 85, 75. Carmila Cardoza led the way for the sky, 17 points. Skylar Diggins had 13. Gabrielle Haquez, who's on the national championship team, she struggled a little bit today. One of four from the three, one of eight from the field. But, yeah, Miles. Miles like that. They got a nice little squad. Yeah, nice little squad. Minnesota does yeah yeah.

[Unc]

Minnesota do they gonna be they're gonna be pretty good.

[Ocho]

I know, I know it's early. Las Vegas won it last year, huh?

[Joe]

Yes. And then the Liberty won it the year before and then I think what you call them wanted back to back Las Vegas wanted back to back Las

[Ocho]

Vegas probably favored again to win it again this year, huh?

[Joe]

They are.

[Unc]

Damn. They hey they got they got their work cut out. It's gonna be it's gonna it's gonna be tough.

[Joe]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah. They everybody you know revamp loaded up but when it rubber meet needs to meet the road in a five game series. It's gonna be a seven game series. I I, I ain't taking nobody over Asia.

[Unc]

No. Oh no. Oh no. Old lefty. Yeah. Yeah. Huh?

[Joe]

Yeah, she lefty. What you call him? Kelsey Plum. Lefty also.

[Unc]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Kelsey. We're LA now, huh?

[Joe]

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