Best of NBA News Part 2: NBA Combine results + Spurs DOMINATE Wolves to SET OKC matchup + UNC details his HISTORIC HS Basketball Career + AJ Dybantsa Record Breaking 42in VERTICAL

Summary

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Nightcap – Best of NBA News Part 2 (May 17, 2026)

Host: Shay Shay Media & Playmaker (Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, Joe)

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Episode Overview

In this lively and unfiltered episode, the Nightcap crew dives into the biggest NBA headlines, focusing on the Spurs’ emphatic victory over the Timberwolves, previewing the soon-to-be-epic Spurs vs. Thunder matchup, and sharing immediate reactions from the NBA Combine, including AJ Dybantsa’s record-breaking 42-inch vertical leap. True to form, the conversation is peppered with storytelling, friendly roasting, NBA strategizing, and personal basketball memories—especially Shannon Sharpe detailing his historic high school hoops career.

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Spurs DOMINATE Timberwolves to Set Up Thunder Showdown

Spurs’ Statement Win Over Wolves

• Result: Spurs knock out the Timberwolves 139–109 to reach the Western Conference Finals vs. OKC Thunder.

• Key Performers:

  • Stephon Castle: 32 points, 11/16 FG, 5/7 from 3, “came out scorching” (Brian, 02:33)
  • Victor Wembanyama: 19 quiet points, but “alters so many shots” (Ocho, 05:56)
  • Darren Fox: 21 points, 8/10 FG
  • Champagnie: 18 points, 4/9 from 3

• Notable Stat: Spurs out-rebounded Wolves 60–29. “Plus 31 on the glass! That’s crazy.” (Brian, 02:33)

• Depth: Six Spurs in double figures; Dylan Harper’s solid bench play (15 pts).

The Wolves’ Struggles

• Rudy Gobert: “Your starting center—he was zero points with three rebounds…that’s unacceptable.” (Brian, 06:30)
• Julius Randle: “Randle, let’s be real Joe, was atrocious all series.” (Brian, 06:13)
• Ant-Man (Edwards): 24 points, but often forced the issue; Wolves’ offense out of rhythm early.

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Discussion Highlights & Analysis

Why Minnesota Couldn’t Compete

• The Spurs’ ball movement and shot-making overwhelmed Minnesota, who “just couldn’t keep up with San Antonio’s waves of weapons” (Ocho, 08:32).
• Wolves’ bigs non-existent: “Everything I done, batten down the hatches. I ain’t leaving. Yeah, you know, when a storm is coming to say you need to leave, I’m batting the hatches. I ain’t going no damn where.” — Brian (32:10)

Rudy Gobert vs. Wemby: The Mismatch

• “You can’t have a guy making $40, $50 million who becomes unplayable.” (Brian, 13:21)
• “Wemby is just a cheat code, bro…not a regular 7’5” guy—he has guard skills.” (Ocho, 08:32)

Wolves’ Roster Dilemma

• The issue isn’t purely Gobert, but also a team-building conundrum: “If you get a big who scores, he’ll be a liability on D. If he can defend, he gives you nothing on offense.” (Joe, 38:21)
• Nas Reed “probably gonna get the starting job” next year for his floor spacing. (Ocho, 32:24)
• On Gobert trades: “Even Fat Albert gang don’t want Rudy back!” (Brian, 33:11)

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Thunder vs. Spurs Preview — Tactical Deep Dive

On Stopping Wemby

• Question: “Who on OKC can stop Wemby?”
• Answer: “They’ll throw Chet and Hardenstein at him…but even then, Wimby’s just special.” (Joe/Brian, 25:19–26:02)

Matchups to Watch

• Perimeter defense: Both teams “have about four or five guys who can defend at an elite level” (Brian, 24:31).
• “OKC might start Lou Dort on Fox…but Fox is so quick, he’ll give anybody trouble.” (Brian, 27:30)
• “The difference in this series is going to be bench play.” (Ocho, 27:15)

Series Predictions

• Ocho (Chad): “OKC got home court advantage…I’m going OKC, I picked them to win it.” (29:06)
• Brian: “If I had to put money down, I take the Thunder in seven—could see it being a home and home series.” (30:59)
• Joe: “That goddamn Wimby’s so special…he’s gonna be the common denominator. Edge to Spurs, slightly.” (31:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The Wolves traded more picks for Rudy Gobert than he had total points in Game 5.” — Brian (02:33)
• “Once you let a guy get rolling in this league, bro, it’s hard to turn him off.” — Ocho (05:23)
• “You can’t win no games like that, bro…you just can’t.” — Ocho (05:56)
• “He’s a hustle guy…gets a lot of his points off hustling, putbacks, things that sort.” — Ocho on Hardenstein (30:34)
• “OKC and the Spurs, for the next three to five years—they’re gonna run the West unless something unforeseen happens.” — Brian (37:05)

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NBA Combine Storylines & Historic Measurements

AJ Dybantsa’s 42-Inch Vertical Stuns

• “AJ Dybantsa: 6’8.5” […], 42 inch (vertical). The highest mark recorded this week.” (Brian, 46:16)
• All agree: “NBA’s gonna be in great hands…nice crop of young dudes coming in.” (Ocho, 49:19)

Shooting Drills

• Darius Acuff and Darian Peterson shooting the “blood out the ball” in drills.
• NBA players’ warm-up routines—Chad making 17 straight threes in practice. “Just watch these guys. I’m like, you gotta be kidding me!” (Brian, 50:29–50:38)

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Storytime: Shannon (UNC) Sharpe’s High School Basketball Lore

• Shannon details his storied high school hoops career:

  • “I dropped 52 and three quarters—all twos, no three-pointers back then!” (Brian, 52:12)
  • “Three-time state champ…best triple jumper in the state of Georgia, and I got that trophy on my grandma’s mantle.” (Brian, 54:09)
  • “I was a better basketball player than football—I just played because my brother did.” (Brian, 60:58)

• Playful challenges and claims:

  • “I still house cats at the gym here in Atlanta!” (Ocho, 64:09)
  • “You don’t want none of this, Joe—you don’t know what you’re biting off.” (Ocho vs. Joe, 63:02)

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• 02:33 – Spurs dominate Wolves; breakdown of game stats, performances
• 04:54 – Ocho and Brian analyze Wolves’ defensive strategy/failures
• 12:10 – The Wolves’ Gobert dilemma and broader NBA context
• 25:06 – Strategic preview of Spurs vs. Thunder
• 29:06 – 31:22 – Hosts lock in Western Conference Finals predictions
• 46:16 – NBA Combine: AJ Dybantsa’s vertical and prospect measurements
• 49:19–50:38 – Shooting drills, stories of pro shooters’ practice habits
• 52:12–60:58 – Shannon Sharpe’s high school hoops stories and friendly banter

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Tone & Style

• The energy is candid, fun, and packed with friendly ribbing.
• Analytical takes are mixed with storytelling, deep NBA insights, and plenty of laughter.
• Hosts don’t hold back: honest about players’ performances (especially Gobert/Randle’s struggles), and hype up star talent (Wemby, Castle, AJ Dybantsa).
• The camaraderie and trash talk between Shannon, Ocho, and Joe is as entertaining as the basketball analysis.

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FINAL TAKEAWAYS

• The Spurs look “here for the long haul”—depth, talent, and Wemby’s superstar difference make them a West powerhouse.
• The Thunder-Spurs series will be a “dogfight” between two young, dynamic, and deep squads.
• NBA future is bright with incoming talent—and Shannon Sharpe still thinks he’s the GOAT on the hardwood.

Quote to remember:
“You can’t have a guy making $40, $50 million who becomes unplayable...That’s crazy!” — Brian (13:21)

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[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

The spurs. So now we know who is going to be in the Western Conference finals and take on the OKC Thunder. The Spurs. Molly Wap. The Minnesota Timberwolves by the score of 139 to 109. The Wolves traded more picks for Rudy Gobert than he had total points in game five. Champagne. Those guys, they had six guys in double figures. Champagne was five or 10, four, nine from the three. He had 18. Victor women. Yama Quiet Knife. By his Standard, he was 19 points but only shot the ball 11 times. Darren Fox had 21. He was 8 of 10. Devin Vassell. He was 14. He had 11 points. The night belonged to Stephen Castle. Stephanie. Excuse me, Stephan castle. He had 32 points on 11 of 16. He came out scorching hard from the three point line and he didn't let up all night. So we had 32 points on 11 of 16 shooting five or seven for the three. Dylan Harper came up the bench. He was 15 points on six of eight shooting. But Minnesota, it was just not enough. You could see early on in this game, um, I thought it about to get out of hand early. Give Minnesota credit. They made a great push right before the half. But then the, the spurs came out of this third quarter and really put the game away. Jaden. Jaden McDaniels had $13, had 10. Uh, Ant man had 24. Nas Reed was scorching hot in the second quarter. He and Terence Shannon tried to keep him in it as best they could, but it wasn't enough. Nas Reed had 18 points and Shannon had 21 points. But it wasn't enough. The spurs just had too much depth. Out rebounded them. Plus 20. No. Plus 31. The spurs had 60 rebounds. The Timberwolves had 29 rebounds. That is crazy. Plus 31 on the glass. And that's why you have a lopsided game like what you had 139 to 109. Joe, what did you. You saw, you saw the spurs and we, we. I'm not surprised. I don't know if anybody should be surprised because we didn't think it would have got this far if they didn't throw Victor women Yama out of the game. What was that, Game three or game four. But it happened and it is what it is. But now we know the spurs and the Timber and the spurs and the Thunder and the Western Conference Finals, 139 to 109. T wolves. What did you like about the spurs and how they approached this game tonight, Joe?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Tonight, Uncle Ocho, I thought the spurs finally put together a collective team effort as far as winning. Yes, Castle went off with 32 and 11, 11 rebounds, but for the most part, their whole entire squad played great, bro. I think if you. Minnesota, you started the game with Rudy Garden. Castle, I didn't know what the hell that was about. Yeah, you know, you give a guy like that dare shots because it ain't like he a non shooter.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He can shoot.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You give him dare shots and he make a couple, you in trouble. And that's what happened tonight. Castle got off to a great start in that first quarter, and you could tell when he hit about 12 to 13 points, I said, oh, it's going to be a big night for him. You know, once you get. Once you let a guy get rolling in this league, bro, it's hard to turn him off. And then those other guys just. I mean, they shot 55 from the field.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

What?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

They shot 47 from.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, they shot 56 from the floor, 47 from three. And at 85, there was 23 of 27 from the free throw line. 85%.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Can't stop. Hey, hey, you can't.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You can't win no games like that, bro. I know women, y' all only had three blocks. But like we continue to say, like we continue to say all. All playoffs, bro. He alters so many shots, and then when you look at Minnesota, how the hell you gonna win with Randall giving you three points?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Randall, Randall. Let's be real, Joe. Randall was atrocious all series.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He was, bro.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He was bad off.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He may have had a solid game. I think the game that they won in San Antonio was a game one. I think he. I think he may have been solid that game, but for the most part, they pretty much kept him at bay.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

And you look at and see this is. See, this is the problem is that you have. Is that you got a guy like Rudy Gobert making 50 million and he becomes unplayable. If I got a receiver, Ocho, no matter. And I'm paying him. Let's just say for the sake of our. I'm paying him $25 million. But on third down, I bring him out the game. What value is that? That's the money down. I can't play Rudy for the most Part they couldn't play him. He had zero points. The man hold on your starting center. He was zero points with three rebounds. Look how many guys hold. Harrison Barnes played seven minutes, he had four rebounds. Kelly Olenek, he played eight minutes, he had four rebounds. Carter Bryant played 13 minutes, he had six rebounds. Luke Cornett played 14 minutes, he had six rebounds. Dylan Harper had five rebounds. Every player on the starting roster started for the spurs and had more rebounds than Rudy. Rudy is seven plus foot tall. Yeah, that's unacceptable. That's. You know what if he's blocking shots, if he's doing. But it's just hard when your guy is that your starting center. And I got to take him out of the game because now if he can't guard Wimy, who can? Julius Randle is giving up such a height disparity.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Nobody.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Who you. Who you gonna put re Nas can't play him. So now you get try to go on and you try to double him. And the guys, you, you've already let guys get comfortable shooting. Damn. Shoot around threes.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yep, yep.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Now they finish split your head to the white meat because every time that shot go up, what they trying to do, Joe? No, Joe, look at the bench like, yeah, hey, hey, Chris, don't look at me. I ain't got nothing right. Hey, but. And when you go ahead, Joe, when

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

you think about it, Rudy can't guard. He can't guard Wimbanyama and Randall and Nas Reed, they have the foot speed to keep up with him. But hell, when he go up to

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

shoot, they're too small.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Ain't nothing they can do, fellas. There's nothing they can do. They could be as physical as they want. He didn't kind of adjust it to that. And I think the spurs grew throughout this series and hell, women. Yama just a cheat code, bro. He's just a huge. He just too much of a difference maker. I mean, you look at how he passed the ball, you know how he gets the other guys involved. He's not a regular. Obviously. We know he's not a regular 75 guy like he, he. He is a real. He is a real center with guard skills and that makes them super, super tough to beat, bro. This is going to be a, a great series in the next round, but Minnesota, man, I thought they had a chance to push it to a Game 7, but they get off to such slow starts, man. You know to where, to where the spurs defense is so effective in that first cup in that first quarter or two that it kind of Throws them off rhythm, and then Ant man has to start forcing things, you know, just to kind of get going. And they just too good, bro. They too good. They got too many weapons.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Julius Random gave me. Gave me three points.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You know what? Obviously going to this game gave me

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

three points tonight, huh?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, that's it. Hell, not only that, I was hoping Rudy. I was hoping Rudy could have one of those game where he surprises you and does something offensively that he doesn't do often. But I was hoping a game like tonight where he understands the importance of having some type of production offensively so you're not a liability. He. He didn't show up, obviously, having no rebounds and them having 31 more rebounds than the goddamn Wolves that you didn't have a chance, Uncle. At no point, Joe, did they even have a chance to actually win this game. At one point they were down, what, 29, damn near 30 points. I think they closed it down maybe 50.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

They end up losing by 30.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, it was bad. And the game of basketball is all about matchups, all about matchup. I think most of the people when it came to this series, because you had Ant man, you thought Ant man, and some of the collective. Some of the collective cast that he did have, along with Julius Randle, would find ways to get things done. The game where Wemby went out, that was one of the games where they took advantage and came through to win that game. I think game one, they were able to win because they were so aggressive and played Wimby so well. And when missing so many shots, Joe, you know, so many shots. So he wasn't efficient from the field. And then the game tonight, hell, they had them. They had the Bulls on the goddamn start.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

This game was supposed to be able to have. The spurs turned the ball over 15 times. Minnesota only had five, and they lost by 30. Imagine if that flip side, if you flip that around, it's crazy how bad they get beat. That's. Now you're looking at a Knicks Sixers or Knicks Atlanta score. Yeah, yeah, because, yeah, they were up, what, 29. They were up 29 in the second. And then the next day, you know, Minnesota cut it all the way down to 12. I'm like, oh, my God, turnovers and turnovers and turnovers and turnovers. And when the one thing they can't do moving forward is that you can't turn the ball over against that team that you're going to play next, they

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

gonna punish man and Ocho to kind of piggyback what you're Saying about Gobert.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes, sir.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I think Minnesota gotta really take a hard look at this fellas, because I mean, San Antonio is going to be good for at least the next decade if we just keeping it 100. And with Rudy, you can't even run a pick and roll to even try to get him alive. Not against Wimby. Hell, he gonna, he gonna, he gonna get that. You know what I mean? So he's not effective offensively and defensively. Hell, he can't. I mean, what are you gonna do? He can't guard nobody defensively.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

And hold on, Joe. Just. Just to say so, put your GM cap on right now. Right? Put your. Put your head coaching cap on right now. So you say the Wolves have to think about what to do, what to do with goddamn Rudy, him being a liability. Hell, offensively and defensively when it comes to playing someone like Wemby. But hell, who's out there that can play Wimy? Especially with as good as he is, as tall as he is, as efficient as he is, and he's not selfish. Hell, he's a three level scorer. He can do everything. He can shoot from the three. He can shoot, you know, the midi. And he could, he could take you off the goddamn dribble and drive. So there's really no answer for him in general. So I mean, questioning how Rudy looked against him. Hell, anybody that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You got to make him work the same exact. You got to make him work. You got to put. Be able to score on him. You see, the thing is you let. Basically he relaxing though. He using all of his. His energy on offense because he already know Rudy ain't gonna give you nothing, right? So Rudy, Rudy is the. Is the least of my concern. As a matter of fact, I wonder what time it is in France right now, right? My mom and dad watching this game. Damn. I wonder. I wonder. They're having tea and crumpets this time. I ain't thinking about him. He. He does.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

In a situation like this, you supposed to be under duress because you need to be worried about what the guy I'm going against, what he's capable of doing. Don't nobody worry about that. And we've seen this far too many times that Rudy Gobert becomes unplayable. You cannot have a guy making 40, 50 million dollars. I don't care the position that becomes unplayable. How is my point guard if I got a point guard, Joe? And I'm paying him 30, $40 million, but I can't have him on the court in the fourth Quarter because he can't shoot. I can't have Rudy on the court because not only is he a. A liability defensively, he's more. He's a. He's a more of a liability offensively. He give me nothing.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, and.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

And you.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You got a point. And when you think about it, the job that Rudy done against Jokic was amazing.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

But these are. These are two totally different bigs. You know, Wimby is a finesse big. You know, he. He go off the bound, shoot the three. You know, he's very elusive. The way he dribbles the ball, getting back, all he needs a step on you here. He dunking the ball. You know what I mean? The thing for Rudy Ocho, you know, when he's out there on the perimeter doing dribble handouts, women just kind of sitting back, bro. He like, okay, y' all do what y' all gonna do. I know Rudy ain't shooting nothing out here, you know what I mean? So he just kind of sitting back in the paint, and it may look like he far away from you, but, hell, once he extend, he gonna go get that. You know what I mean? So you gotta have somebody who's a threat. So that's why Nas replays so much. And you gotta play guys like Nazri who can shoot, because you gotta make Wimby respect the guy who he's guarding. But yeah, you gotta. Gotta get him out there paint, bro, so you can get some driving lanes. Because if when you playing Rudy and he just sitting back, it's hard for Ant man to get in the teeth of the defense, IO any of those guys, right? So, yeah, Shannon, I. I think. I think they have to really take a look at, you know, how they can improve from a big man standpoint, going further. I mean, because San Antonio and okc, bro, they here for the long haul.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, I got a question, though. Uncle and Joe, think about this, right? What you're saying with. With. With Rudy being a liability, obviously, when playing the Spurs. But think about the Wolves and all the others. I mean, think about the Wolves and all the other team that they played. No, he doesn't have this issue all the time.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Well, he had this issue because there's only one Wendy. Let's give him that. So do you normally punishes him? Jokic, the three ball wasn't. Wasn't falling. And see, Jokic is not as fleet of foot. Jokic is not as quick off the dribble as Wimby. See, Wendy can get by him. Jokic couldn't get by him.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Right.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

And because Rudy could bother him with his length, he can't bother. He. First of all, he's guarding the guy that's taller than him. There are not very many guys that Rudy's gonna guard that's gonna be taller than Rudy. So now I've got a guy that's four inches taller than me and can jump, so I can't bother him. I can't put it. He do this to. He do this to yolk and yo can't see he do this. His hand. Man, get your hand up my damn mouth so he. He sees all of that. We saw this in Utah, Joe. You remember in Utah, they had the same issue. They couldn't play him against the Clippers late in the ball game. But because he was a liability. We saw this a lot of times in Minnesota. He was a liability. You can't. It's just hard when one of your best players who you play a premium salary to becomes unplayable and I gotta take him out of the game. It's unfathomable to me that my best pitcher, my best closer, just think Mariana Rivera, the best closer. But I can't bring him out tonight. My best hitter. I'm a pitch hit for him because I don't trust him. I don't trust him in the bottom of the 10th or 11th inning. That's crazy. That's what Rudy is. He's one of their best players and I got to take him off the court. He gave me zero points and three rebounds at seven plus feet tall. That's crazy.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

And you put him on a guy who you thought was a non shooter. Because I ain't.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

No way.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Why would you put Rudy on Castle? I'm thinking that to start the game. I'm like, yeah, why in the hell would they do that?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

And, and, and he just. He got it going, bro, that first quarter and then it just unraveled for him. It just seemed like Minnesota, it. It's so hard for them to come by buckets, Uncle Ocho, you know what I mean? And for San Antonio, it's like hell, they score a wheel, bro, just from ball movement alone. Just move that ball hopping and everybody getting a great shot, you know? Yeah. If it break down Castle and Fox. Fox, who I love, I thought he played a huge part tonight in them getting that win. Because both of those guys are great in pick and roll. They're great off the dribble, they're great facilitating. And they got an in between game that a lot of guys don't got. Yeah, they can shoot the three, but once they get inside that three point line, even if they don't get all the way to the rim, they got the floaters, the little middies. Yeah, the little touch shots. They just got too much in their game. And Minnesota just couldn't. They couldn't hang with him, bro.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Nah. And the funny thing about it too, tonight of all games, you know, maybe you have wimy efficient. Maybe. Maybe Castle, maybe Vesel. But. But Joe and Unc, everybody was goddamn efficient tonight. Everybody. Goddamn fox had had 21 points.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Cut your zoom off and cut back on. You're so lagged. You're like a four second delay. Yeah. So cut it off and come and come back in.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

All that damn smokey head over there.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

That's. That's the. And look, you can't fault his effort because he'd be trying. You. I. I'll never say Rudy wasn't trying because he does. He.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Absolutely.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

But he's limited on what he can do. Joe. He. Yeah, and I. Look, like I said, I think everybody, you know, you remember that Joe, you weren't on here with us, but he had that one game where he had 27 points and 20 rebounds against the Lakers. And everybody say, see, I told you, Rudy, look. That's an anomaly. He was never gonna have.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

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[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Is it. Is the timing good?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hold on.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Is it better? It's better. They said, man, you was talking. You still doing the intro?

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[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Finish it though. But you talking about how efficient the spurs were. When you look at Champagne, it was 5 or 10 and WEMB 6 of 11. Go ahead.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

No, I was saying Fox. I mean if there was a game where everybody need to be efficient to close out this goddamn series, it was a night. I was saying Fox had 21 points. I think it was 8 for 10. He was 3 for 3 from 3. And hell with everyone else playing well and women didn't even have a crazy night tonight. Joe.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He didn't have to.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Collectively, everybody plays so goddamn well. The goddamn Wolves didn't even have a chance.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, I mean, look, when you think about it, he didn't have to be heroic tonight when you got championing with 185 for 10 from the field. Hey, look, I love Harper coming off the bench. He don't play like no rookie to me, fellas. He plays like a guy who's been in this league three, four, five years. He understands the moment. He's one of those guys who great and poise and patience and precious situations. You know, they trust him with the rock as a rookie, bro, you don't really see that man. You know what I mean? And he's had big moments, you know, not just in this series, but throughout this whole, this whole playoffs. So I, I enjoy watching him play as well. I just think collectively San Antonio has the team to compete with okc. I'm talking about from top to bottom, you name it. From the guard standpoint all the way to the bigs. Boy, it's going to be a. It's going to be some fireworks in

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

this next season because both teams have about four or five guys that can defend at an elite level on the perimeter. Yeah, that is what separates okc. That is what separate because of a sale champagne. You look at Castle, you look at those guys, they can defend the. Kelvin Johnson isn't. He's not the best defender but he a try defender and that's all. Sometimes that's what all I need. I just need some other teams that's not in the playoffs that got swept. I need those guys to be tried defenders because they just, they give up too much. Go ahead Ocho, what you want.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I'm glad you just said this. Right. We talk about how well OKC defends, we talk about the depth that the bench has and we talk about the depth that the God damn that the spurs have. But the one difference maker is they still have Wimby.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Now as well as the goddamn Thunder can defend. Who's going to be the answer to be able to stop Wimby? What's going to be the difference now?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Well, they try to throw, they're going to try to throw, they're going to lose chat and they're going to switch it up to Hardenstein. Because they got two seven footers, six eleven, seven foot. They got guys they can throw at him that a lot. That's a lot more athletic. And plus Chet can shoot the three. Chet can bring him out to deep

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

waters and get him in, get him

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

in space, what you call him. He ain't worried about that. Not the same thing with Hardenstein. He's not worried about Hardenstein. He's work. Hardenstein is a lot quicker and so he was set to pick and roll. He can dive to the basket. They do a great job.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, he got put him in the pick.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

They throw him the ball and then here come Chet from the dunker spot and boom.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, but then the Thunder gonna have the same issue. Shay loving to get to the midi.

[Commercial Voice / Pod Meets World Host]

Sh.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Shay loving to come out the dribble and drive to the basket. Hell, Wimy still gonna do what he's done to everybody else and altering goddamn shots.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Well, hey, hey, hey, hold on now. Sh. Shea. Mid range Assassin. You know, I agree with you.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Un. They.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

They both got. They both got guys who can defend, but they also both teams got guys who are great going off the dribble, great creating space, great scoring the basketball, great penetrating, getting into the teeth of your defense and making plays. I think it's going to be a pretty even game. Now, I know the spurs going to come in with a lot of confidence because they beat them four times. They won 41 throughout the season. So they gonna come. They gonna come in with a lot of confidence. And considering the fact that OKC is not gonna have the. The other Jays.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

No, he said he's healthy. Yeah, he's healthy.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

It's gonna be interesting.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

It's gonna be very interesting to see what they do. Cause you know, Mitchell, AJ Mitchell has played so well. Like, oh, maybe maybe, you know, maybe take a game or two. Take another game or two. We're gonna make sure you fully healthy.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I think. I think they gonna continue. I think they gonna bring AJ Mitchell off the bench and he's still gonna be. He's still gonna continue to get money. I think that's gonna be the difference maker in this series. Meaning OKC and San Antonio. It's gonna be the bench place. It's gonna be the bench place.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

The question is I think they're gonna probably start Lou Dort on. On Fox, but he's gonna have to. Man, Fox is so quick. Man, that joke, that herky jerky.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, that's.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, nah. You think they gonna. I think you think they gonna start

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

him put on him.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

They can put him on Castle.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

So who go? So I want to know who. So you gonna put. You gonna put Shay on Fox? Yeah, you gonna go right around Fox. Man, you drove that joker so quick, man. I watched that joker. Oh, no, no, no, no. He.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He cat quick. Oh, hey hey. He gonna.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

They.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I think they gonna give each other problem. I think Shay being a little bigger,

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

you know, he made Castle's gonna be on. Gonna be on shape him or I think him Basel probably champagne. I think those guys that triplets that trio is going to take going to rotate and try to show because all of them are different. But Castle is uber, uber physical. He's quick. And you saw tonight Fox was giving Jaden McDaniels all he could handle, everything that he wanted.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He nice, bro. He nice. You right?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

So listen. So listen, Joe. Out of the four times they played during the regular season, the spurs won

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

what they was four and one against. The spurs won four. OKC won.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Now that's. That's. Now that's regular season basketball. Now come playoff basketball. Now, who y' all got in the series based on. You know, it's all about matchups. It's all about matchups. Now, the one common denominator that separates both of these teams is goddamn Wemby.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I know, man. Okay, OKC got home court advantage. I'm going okc. I picked them to win it. I. I think. I think San Antonio is there. Obviously, you know, they. They looking to win now. You know, even though they're a young team, they got what it takes. Obviously they showed me a lot throughout this postseason, but hell, OKC has showed me just as much, man. You know, the fact that they're still hungry coming off a title. They ate no. In this postseason. I'm sure they want to continue that. Going to be hard for San Antonio to go on OKC and get a game. Fellas.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, I'm just.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Uncle. What you got?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I mean, if you. If you. The thing I can see is that I still think San Antonio might be a year away. The turnovers, you cannot turn the ball over against the Thunder. They punish you. They make you pay a premium. You pay double for turnovers in the postseason. And, And I just think the thing is, is that Chet and Hardenstein. I can see Chet averaging somewhere between 18 and 22, which they did not get from Rudy Hartenstein. You know, Hardenstein, he gonna give you efficient. He ain't gonna. He ain't gonna miss more than two shots because everything is gonna be. Or, or, or, or, or. Or a floater from about 5 second,

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

his ass going to have double figure rebound for a wife.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He g. He.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He's a hustle. He's a hustle guy who gets a lot of his points off of hustling. Hustling. You know, put backs, things that sort

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

of getting you extra possession, create second chance points because Wendy Wimby going to challenge it. And so guess what? So when Wimy goes to challenge something, they're saying, okay, whoever win this garden, when he goes to challenge, take your ass to the rim.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely right.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I. If I would. I mean, you make me pick. If I had to pick some money, if I had to put some money down that meant something to it. Hell, if I'm putting money down, it's my money, so it means a lot to me. I would take the Thunder. I think I. I think I. I can see the Thunder in seven. I can see it being a home and home series, Joe. I really could.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I know Ocho a rebel. He gonna go San Antonio. I already know me.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I mean, listen, I like the Thunder. Obviously, what they've been able to do, even when Shay was injured, I mean, them young bulls kept the ship afloat. But that goddamn Wimby's so special. He's so special, and I think he's gonna be the common denominator being that I don't think Shet would be able to do anything with him. Even though Shetty is 7ft tall, Wenby is so dominant, regardless of who you put out there on him. I'm just giving the edge to the spurs slightly.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Okay. All right, Joe.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I'm just looking at these numbers. My start, my starting 4 and 5 gave me 3 points and 10 effing rebounds at home.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

At home. That's just gonna close out game. A closer.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Everything I done batting down the hatches. I done boarded up the house. I'm hunkering down. I ain't leaving. Yeah. You know, when a storm is coming to say you need to leave, I. I'm batting the answers. I ain't going no damn where. Yeah.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, you know what I think? I think Minnesota, I think coming into next year, they probably gonna find a way to kind of give Nas Reed a starting job. Uncle Ocho, I just think he plays well, you know, and. And I think he. I think he played well against Wimby, obviously, being able to stretch the floor. And he ain't really look like he was nervous and scared of the moment tonight, you know what I mean? He just came out,

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Joe.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Well, you're gonna have to. You're gonna have to change your roster up a little bit. You might have to make a couple trades, you know? I'm saying what if.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

If, you know, we still got to give him the picks that we gave for Wimby. I mean, for Rudy. We gave up five first rounders.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Joe, you don't think nobody want Rudy.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Look here. Fat ABBA game, don't even want Rudy back. You remember Rudy was in Fat App. Rudy kept some bull job going. Fat ABBA gang, don't even want Rudy back.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Just a bad match. It is Rudy, bro.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

It is. It is. And that's the problem, that he has any matchup that has a big. That's Athletic is going to be a problem for him.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, they can space the floor and shoot. Yeah, that's.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He would have a problem with Embiid because Embiid is so physical. Embiid's gonna put that big body on him. That's not what Jokic is. Jokic is a finesse player. Rudy is long enough to bother him, especially if he can't get him in foul trouble early. And he can't knock down threes to pull him away from the basket. Because, you see, even when Rudy wasn't blocking the shot, he was making him shoot it short because he was working. He's put so much arc on it that the ball was coming up short. But at some point in time, Joe, you got to make a look. I'm looking. I'm like, hold on. Randall gave me three. Randall. Randall been coming up real small in big moments, Joe. He's been coming up real small.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I know. And they needed him tonight.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You got Minnesota. Y' all thought this was gonna be a better answer than. Than Cat. That's the problem that you're running into. And they seeing what Cat doing over there. Cat done had two postseason triple doubles. I'm gonna keep my Masha. They ain't got none of my day, none of my business. I don't even know why I brought it up.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, hey, hey. But Minnesota was hampered with injuries, so I'm gonna give him a little pass in this series. I thought Ant man kind of got a little better, you know, as a series went along. He didn't play great tonight, but, hell, I thought at least. At least his intensity was there, understanding the moment. You know, he was aggressive. He was trying to get to the cup. But San Antonio. Too much, bro. They coming at you with too many waves, too many guys who can really shoot the basketball defend at a high level. And once they bust that thing open, it's hard. It was hard for Minnesota to keep coming back and being at home. I think. I think that's the most impressive thing about San Antonio, bro. The way they played on the road, the way they came in there and

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

closed that thing out, you know, it wasn't. One of the most important thing, too is. Is. Is having that advantage, being able to play at home, helping, allowing your crowd to get into it to make things easy for you offensively and defensively. The spurs didn't allow the crowd to get into it at all.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

They didn't, bro.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

At no. At no damn point. They really made it a home game, even though they were playing away.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

When you Think about this trade, Joe. Let me tell you what trade doesn't make sense to me. Because you got a guy in Ant man that wants to attack, he can shoot, can get to the mid. He got a few three level score. But Julius Randall, Julius Randall's not a better three point shot. A better. A three point guy. Cat can pull you big cool pull. Now, see, Cat can pull Wimby away from the basket.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Now if you take Rudy out, you bring Cat in and Cassie in. Now Rudy's got to go out there because Cat can knock the three down.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah. He'll turn his back on Rudy. Go ahead, shoot. I dare you. He up there boxing out the free throw line. Rude at the three point line. He ain't worried about Rudy. That damn shot. And he knows Rudy. How many times you see Rudy dive to the basket and dunk? Rudy gonna get put back. Dunk. He'll get a lob dunk. But I'm not throwing with them hands.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. Tall.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He awkward, so he ain't. I ain't worried about him bending down and getting the ball right.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I ain't worried about none of that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

He gonna kick it with him. Size 20. Kick that thing dead in the front row, Pop. So I'm not worried about that. They're gonna have to because Ocho, you said had. All he has to deal with is Wimby. The problem is, is that OKC and the spurs for the next three to five years, they're gonna run to west unless something unforeseen happen. So even if he's having his way with Jokic and some of these other bigs, he still got to go through them.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Even if you're going through purgatory, in order to get to the championships, you got to go through hell, which is San Antonio and okc.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

And this, this, this is the, this is the bad thing though, huh? Because if you, if you get rid of Rudy, who's the answer? There's still no answer that you can go and get that can make a difference against Wimy or the goddamn Thunder.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Well, I think the thing is, is that I got to get product. I got to get points from somewhere. I got nothing from. I got nothing from. I got nothing from Drew Randall and I got nothing from Rudy. So that puts so much pressure on Ant that he feels. And had 24 points, but it took him 26 shots. I'll give him that all day long.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

And think about this. If you do get it big, right, Uncle Joe?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Would you get a big. That's all you know, our office is big. That can get you points. Hell, that could shoot the three. But then, you know what the problem gonna be? He gonna be a liability on defense because you're not gonna get it. Okay.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

What a thing that I'm thinking is if. If I can keep Wimby honest, you know, versus him not even paying attention to Rudy. Right. Damn. I mean, I think that's a pretty good job. Meaning if I could have a threat out there that he has to guard. Ocho.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yes.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Instead of just sitting. Kind of just sitting close to the paint, not guarding this man who out at the three, man.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You have a better chance versus going in there challenging him every time, bro. Like, it's just. He just too much. It's too much, man. So I. I'm sure Minnesota will get to the drawing board this summer. They gonna have to come up with something. I know they got some. Some. Some mean contracts over there, but, boy, they got to figure it out.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah. The Wolves, the last five post seasons, lost in the first round, lost in the first round, lost in the conference finals, lost in the conference finals, lost in this, the second round. And I think. I think the thing is for. Is that with Wimby, you can't outskill him. You got to get somebody that's physical, that's. That's willing to bang with him because his skill level is. I mean, they. First of all, there's a whole lot of fives. I mean, you look at Jokic, if you say. If you look at Hardenstein, you look at. You want to say Cats of five, There are not a whole lot of them that has a skill like Wimy that can be able to score. The only big. The only five that really can score is Embiid and Yic.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, those are the really only ones.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

That's really the only ones.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That's why that. That's why I said there is no answer. So in the West, Wimy's going to continue to dominate because there's really nobody you can go and get that can match him offensively at the 5.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

We know that, but we got to get some scoring. That. That's the thing. That's the thing. Ojo, he only gave us 19, but his counterpart gave us nothing. So he beat us 19. Nothing. What if he gave us nine? Get off to a great start. Jude didn't do any better. He gave us three. Remember the last game? Remember the last game? How many points did you have to have the last game? He didn't have that many last game.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, and when you think about it, Wimby just got too many pretty good damn players next to him, meaning guys who really know and understand. Okay, boom, we gonna feed big fella. We gonna play through big fella. But, boy, when they come out of them getting to it.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You know, they got guys who really understand their role in Fox, Castle, Vassell,

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Harper.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

They championing. Like, I'm talking about guys who play key. Like, look, they'll have games to where some of these guys won't be as productive offensively, but then they'll have games like tonight to where collectively, as a team, everybody don't beat you. You know what I mean?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Ain't really.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, Castle was, you know, he was terrific tonight, but everybody was super solid around the board. And I just think it's hard to beat a team, bro, who has guys like this. And the only team I could think who was like this is okc.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

But, Joe, think about this. You know, the last game. Last game, late game, five. Guess how many points Rudy had. Four.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

What he had.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

So in two games, he's averaging two points a game. Game five, Drew Randall has 17. So in two games, he'S averaging 10 points a game. How many points did it take? Because it took him like 14 shots to get those 17 points, if I'm not mistaken. I think he was five or 14 from the floor. Six and 17. My bad. I was off couple. Oh, four from three. What was even? Knight from three or two? One of eight from the floor, O of two from three. I. And see, and Ant Man's like, hell, I can get funky like that. If the. Yeah, if I know my guys, I can count on all Rudy.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

If.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

If Rudy could give me a consistent joke. If he can give me a consistent 10 to 12, he ain't gonna be

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

able to do that. On. That's asking a lot. That's asking a lot.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That's not. That's not what he is, Joe. That's what y' all told me when I said, maybe he can have one of those. One of those games.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

But Rudy, you. You love that. When Rudy was giving it to the Laker bad, rudy had a 20, 20 game. I said, he'll never have another one of those in his life.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, and you was right. He's a defensive player. How many times he won that defensive award on four times.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Well, look, the Lakers couldn't match up with him. He was just too damn big. The Lakers ain't had no answer for him.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You know, you got LeBron and Ru trying to guard the man.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This here. This here is different, bro. This. This one. The spurs are a little different.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I'm.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, boy. Look, y' all better get your popcorn ready.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

This going to be a great series. Have they decided when it starts? Monday or Tuesday. Trying to see if the Western Conference finals starts Monday. What is it?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

On a prime.

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[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

NBC. Okay, NBC. All right. NBA draft prospects measurement. Joe. AJ Debonza, 6, 8 and a half, 217 with a 7 and a half foot wingspan. Aaron Peterson, he's 6, 4 and a half, 199 pounds. A 6, 9 and 3 quarters wingspan. Darius Acuff, 6 foot 2, 186 pounds, a 6 foot 7 wingspan. Unofficial. Max Burke, for AJ Debonza, 42 inches. The highest mark request recorded so far this week. Let's take a look at some of the video.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

What about Wilson?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, he did good. I watched it.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I wish they let NFL players run and jump like that. Take a step. I guarantee you see some 50s take a step. Yeah, Joe, with them guys doing. They doing 45 and 46. They just standing. Just standing and going up.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, I know. No, no, no. Hey, look, I give y' all football cash credit, bro. I'm talking about that's a gladiator sport. And them dudes training you dudes train like gladiator. Listen, man, I'm telling y', all, when I was in college, bro, I used to hang out with a lot of football guys. Because I was Prop 48, I wasn't eligible. So I hooped in the hype. I hooped in the hyper center with a bunch of football and track guys. Yeah, I'm talking about all over the realm, all over the rim. You hear me? All over the rim, bro. So I know.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, Joe, the fact that you got experience, you know, playing, playing dudes, you know, when you was Prop 48 and still want to play me is beyond me. I don't understand. I'm just saying it's beyond me.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You understand what's going on in the thinking, Ocho?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I. I don't know. I don't know. Hey, Ojo, I don't think he understands.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Ocho. I done slayed many dragons, homeboy.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, one thing about it, boy. I ain't a dragon.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I done slayed many dragons on ain't no dragon. Yeah, you're talking all that. You spitting fire out of. Slay many dragons, partner. All right, don't worry. I got something for you. I got something for you. Hey, you see how they put that elbow and wimby forehead in his back and all that?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, you gonna elbow me, all that? Oh, it's gonna be physical, Ojo. It's gonna be me and you, partner.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

It's gonna be real.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

So, yeah, Joe, I play. I play physical. I'm on that. I'm on that type of time.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

All right, I'm glad you're on that type of time. So please hit, because I'm ready. Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, wait.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

So you healthy?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You sure?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. Hey. Hey. I know you got your wide receiver camp going, all that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Keep doing your thing, man. I'mma catch you.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I'mma catch you. I'mma catch you.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, I might see about that this weekend, man.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you think?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Sweet, right?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

It's cotton candy.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

So the Bonds is six, eight and a half. Darian Peterson is six, four and a half. Darius Acuff is six, two.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, man, listen, them boys getting to it. They were showing the dudes doing the shooting drill. Like, you know, they may shoot 25 threes. I watched Acuff shoot the blood out. I think he won, like, 18 for, like, 24 or something. Like 25. I watched Peterson shoot the blood out of it. You know, obviously, you ain't got no defense, but it's standing there, catch and shoot, and then you move to another spot. Yeah. So, you know, you can kind of see what you're working with. Man, I think the NBA gonna be in great hands, man. It's gonna be a nice crop of young dudes coming in this year.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Fella, you gotta. I mean, Chad, I just wish you guys could go to an NBA game and watch these guys warm up, because in the second. Cause the first half, the Lakers were in front of us shooting at that goal.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

And so the second half, obviously, they switched. Lakers go down to the far end. The Thunder down here.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I watched Chad make 17 straight threes.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

The one. The one that he missed. Somebody hit. He shot the ball and somebody knocked it out.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

And then he hit another five straight.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, that boy shooting like, if you

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

just watch these guys. And I'm like, you got to be kidding me.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Crazy ableistic.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I mean, and the motion's the same. Whoop.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Whoop, whoop, whoop. I mean, nothing, Nothing, nothing changes. The motion is identical. It's almost like you replaying it. You hit replay, like, damn, he did that again. Damn, he did that again. But it's not replay. It's the same shooting motion. Hey, I was like, God dang, what

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

we talk about muscle memory, bro. Hey, if that. If that. That's your job. All you do every day, you wake your ass up, you come in here, you get these jump shots up, you know, until they. Until you can burn that shoulder up. I'm talking about till you really feel it until it's just second nature, you know what I mean? So now you know, he's been doing it for so long as a professional, that's his only job. So. Yeah, you think? Damn, how he make all these shots in a row? Man, practice his ass off every day to do this, bro. So when I do hit the big stage and the lights come on and you smell that popcorn popping when you walk in the arena, you know what I'm talking about, Ocho. And you know it's time. Let me lock in real quick. Muscle memory. This left hand, just a guy hand, Ocho. It just barely touching the ball.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That's it, huh?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That's it.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, hey, Joe. But that left hand, boy, see, when I was shooting that thing in high school, I ain't need that left. I was flipping them off with the lift. That's what I was doing with the left. Joe, I don't need the left to touch. Don't even touch it. I just flipping them off.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

What's wrong with you, man?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You know what? I dropped that 52 on the joke. Yeah, I dropped 52 and three quarters.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Damn, you.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Well, from.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

From all levels. Threes, Twos.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, Joe. No, Joe, Joe, you got to realize I came out before the three point. The three point came in after I left graduating.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hold on, you ain't had a three point in high school.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I had no threes. That's all two.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, hey, Joe, now that, that. That gave you a better understanding on how sorry the people was. He was. Hey, hey, hey, Joe. 52 points and three quarters.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Come on, Joe, what you trying to say? Who are you playing against? Ojo shoot some kids.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, Derek Miller went to Kentucky. I dropped 25 on him. Give me that.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Let me. Hey, let me see your shot again.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, like that there. Jump. See, I. It wasn't no set shot, Joe. Oo, I used to jump. I used to be like two, three feet off the the ground when I'm shooting that thing. Ain't no blocking my jumper.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, you used to be eating that glass, too, rebounding.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, I. You know, sometimes, Joe, I pull up the cool 3119, something like that. Oh, man, 3119.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, yeah. You eating glass, boy?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, Joe, you was a young horse back then, weren't you?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, Joe, you buying that All Area.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

The All Area team. Go look it up. Guess who on there? Me and old Pervy Sellers. Y' all ever heard of him? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Joe, I know. Look, I done got all big and Muscular and top heavy now. Yeah, but your boy used to be silky with that thing. Now, that used to be silky with it.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I ain't buying it.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, I need silky with it, Joe.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I need to see footage.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I. I can count. I can kind of see.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, you. You didn't believe I scored 52. But it's in the Georgia athletics. They said it. 52 points.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I mean, y' all ain't playing nobody. You ain't got no competition over there. What's your plan? What's that two way.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I was a single A. Oh, yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Single A. Yeah. Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

But if you go back and look. Go back and look. Go back and look at the top players.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Herschel Walker. Single A. Garrison Hurst. Single A. George Rogers. Single A. Shannon and Sterling Sharpe. Single A. Champ Bailey. Single A. All Those guys, top 10 players in Georgia high school football history.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

We talk about basketball.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, y' all would like that. Three time state champ. Damn. In the triple jump, the best performance, the best triple jumper in the state of Georgia from Class 8. We have 53 students graduating. 350 students in the whole high school. The best triple jumper in the state of Georgia came from a class A high school.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That was you.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Best performance trophy, high point winner. Most points accumulated at the state track meet in Class 8. I got that trophy on my grandma mantle.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Best performance trophy my senior year. I got that trophy on my grandma mantle.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Show me. Show me how you triple jump real quick. Let me see.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

That's what got my knees messed up.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, hey, you ain't passing them genetics down to your kids. None of your kids play sports.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

My kids, they want to play. No, Joe, you got to realize, my kid, when I was playing, my kids knew what their daddy did. They knew that. Hey, man, Daddy would have caught that pass. My son said, daddy lady for that, my daddy said, But I ain't trying to hear all that. Hey, hey, look, everybody ain't wild. Like. Like. People always compare me to my brother because I'm three years younger. Yeah, so he's a senior. I'm a freshman. I'm my brother's backup, man. I get in the game. Oh, Jo Joe, them joker will block her down for me. Hey, that joker, he done came out of the game. He got a buck 50 on, like 15 carries. They stopping me in the backfield. What the hell? I'll be bad later for y'. All. Later for y'. All. But me, boy, My sister used to get so mad. My sister say, shannon, you need to stop this. I say, stop what? Why you want to be like Spanky so much, you know? We call my brother Spanky?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Nobody called him his real name here. I don't know. I. I don't think anybody's ever. I've never heard somebody in my family call him his real name. Everybody call him Spank. He been spanking since he was a little boy. And he was like my brother. Whatever my brother got, I got my brother. I don't know if y' all got. Y' all don't remember Bobby Danridge? Bobby Danridge. He won a championship in Milwaukee, but he also won a. A championship in with the Bullets. Yeah, his nickname was Mr. Clutch. My brother got a shirt with Mr. Clutch. Go. I went and got me one with Mr. Clutch on it.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Everything. Everything my brother did, I did.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

My sister said, shannon, you need to be your own man. But what she didn't realize, and she just. I used to get so upset. That's who I wanted to be. I ain't idolized nobody else. The person that I want to be. I saw him every single day. That was it. That's what I wanted to be. So when people compared me like some people shrink, I embraced it. Oh, y' all don't think I'll be good? Oh, y' all don't think I'll be good? Boy, you ain't gonna be like your brother. Oh, boy, you ain't gonna be like your brother. I'm telling you, boy, your brother cold.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Cause they all. All his friends call him Sterling. Only people in the family call him Spanking Sterling. Your little brother. Man, I'm telling. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Sterile. Your brother, your brother. Now, I couldn't run fast like you could. Cause my brother ran like 10, 48, 100 meters.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, that's moving.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Boy, he run like 20. Like 21, 21 2, 21 3, 200. Yo, he could run. Now, I couldn't run like that. Couldn't run like that. But. But I had to keep that thing. Take that with you.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, Joe. He ain't got no support on the ball. He got his hand. He's shooting like this.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Didn't I just tell you, Joe? What I tell him I do, that's to flip people off. Take that. Oh, Joker at Savannah State, they wanted me to play on the basketball team. They have nobody on the basketball team that can out jump me. They have nobody on the basketball team. Because guess what? When them guys graduated and they came played at ear of the mural, I Cooked them all.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, yeah. Hey, intermural, that's the best part. When you're in college, boy.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Cook them all in the mural. Go to Savannah State to ask who got the most. The most points in the intramural game. Joe Drop 48 in the intramural game. In the interview game. 48.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, my goodness. Come on.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Ask him who got the championship game record in intermules. Shannon Sharp, the dude before me. He. They team lost. He dropped 40. I come back behind him. I dropped 41 with six minutes and left it sat down. Cause we was up 28. I don't want to go no more. I could have got 50, but I thought that. I thought that would have been unbecoming of me. I'm just rubbing it in. I ain't that type of guy.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, they definitely Joe.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Aj Ocho, you can tell they you ain't had intermodals where you was at,

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Ojo, Ocho couldn't play no damn basketball.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Okay? Hey, Joe, I do everything, Joe. I do everything. I ain't really. I ain't. I play. I ain't really played no basketball, though. I can hoop, though. I'm gonna whoop your ass.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Anybody that went to Savannah State from 1986 to 1990, ask them what the team to beat. The Juice Crew All Stars featuring Oh, my goodness. All Stars featuring Oh, my goodness.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Who was. Oh, my goodness.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Stop playing, Ocho. I'm too big of a cat to be played with like a kid.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hold on. Time out. Who is oh, my goodness?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You talking to him? Because every time. Every time I get something, they talk about, oh, my goodness. Y' all better stop playing. The Juice Crew All Stars featuring Oh, my goodness.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, my goodness.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Okay, I'm gonna steal that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, he's talking about he finna steal that.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I like that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I' ma see if I got that. I'm gonna see if I can find it. But I got a trophy. I got robbed at MVP several years. I should have won the MVP for, like, three years.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, would have been a mule.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I like that. Oh, for real, though. For real, though. I keep telling you, Ocho, I was a better basketball player in high school than I was football. The only reason I play football, because my brother played. That's the only reason I was like that.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Listen, I'm a need. I'm gonna need visual. Visual reference of all these wild accusations that you said you've done now. I don't know. I got a VCR if you got some VHS tape. I need something, y'.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

All. I was like, that Y' all pulled up that, Joe. I would like that. I would like that, Joe. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

My what? My Louis Vuitton ball at, man.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, you ain't gonna get this joke. You're not gonna beat me.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I see. I know you talking about. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you look like. Hey, you look like.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Look at the rotation, Joe. Look at the rotation, man.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That man can't hoop, man.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, Joe, you ain't never felt the caterpillar. This 255. This 255.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, I'm just making sure you keeping it clean for me. You taking care for me over there?

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, yeah, Joe.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna shoot your eyes out for that. Don't worry about that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

What? Who's saying that? Never gonna get it. Never gonna get it. Never gonna get it. Woo, woo, woo.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. Hey, put down a mean demonstration on you and Ocho ass.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, okay. You. I can't let you get the Louis Vuitton ball. Damn. I like 200 of these.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I' ma still have it on nightcap when we own.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Don't worry about it.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

It's still gonna be in the picture. Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, it's just gonna be at your location. Yeah, I'm gonna put a little hook

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

up there so I can sit right up in the. I got. I got some stuff I'm doing, man.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Yeah, look, and I got. What you call it, and they got the little case that came on.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Joe, you in trouble, boy. You in trouble.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Mean demonstration on you, boy.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, boy, you don't. You don't. You don't. Bit off more than you could chew over here.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Please. I'm telling you now, I already know what's going on, man.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I'm telling you. What's gonna happen is when I'm in front of you, whether it's on off of the defense, and you'd be like, God damn, this old quick as hell. You're gonna be like, what the hell I didn't got myself into. I'm telling you now, you'll see, but

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

I'm telling you, Joe. Hey, Joe. Intermural, they tell you I shot the light. Hey, I dropped 48. Yeah, 48. Record had a bunch. I mean, 30 was nothing. But that championship game, I was like, ain't no way. Ain't no way I'm gonna let no common student have the record. Yeah, an athlete's supposed to have that record in intramural.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

If a basketball player would have got it. Or another basketball, baseball or track athlete. Okay, I'm cool with that. Ain't no common student, Finn, to get to have no interview. And all the athletes, baseball, a basketball. Basketball players that don't play no more. Bro, please. I've been here. I told him, hey, man, you can't play no basketball because I'm telling you, man, you can't play no basketball.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, I still be giving these boys hell around here. You go to the Lifetime over here in Sandy Springs. You're gonna see ice up there by

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

the perimeter, right outside the perimeter.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

We got. We got balance and everything up there, Unc, from winning championships in there, man. I'm housing cats around here.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You hear me? I used to see them guys. That's why you go to. I go to.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, it's. It's. It's some cats who can play, too. I'm talking about some of these cats straight out of college and did four years. They got nice teams.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, man. Okay.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

It be some good runs up there. It'd be some good runs. Hey, Ocho, I seen you. I seen you with your. With your wide receiver crew. I route your ass up. Route your ass up. I see how you out there. I said, oh, yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

That boy.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Ain't no way in hell he could guard me.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Joe, Joe, don't do that.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Run that trip first off. All you got. I'll mouse you that. That's. That's nothing.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Damn. Damn, Ocho.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, Joe.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Look, look, look.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Check him out. Oh, no. You think he gonna.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, what?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, play over, boy. Hey, Strap, watch this. Hey, I'm too quick. What?

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Oh, no.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Where you going? Where you going? Give me that.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You picking, Ocho?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, Joe, this is what I.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, I see.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

I'm strapped. I'm strapping.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey. Oh, you know. See them boys still wet behind the ears. They ain't. You know, he. He know too much.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You have too much room. He got to put it. He got a stack, Ocho.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, you can't.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

You can't stack me.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Look, look, look, look.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Check him out.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Check him out.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Nothing. Nothing. I'm strapping them boys, and we ain't t talk about anybody. Georgia, lsu, Texas, Florida. Yeah, Ohio State.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

We got.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

We got some of the best receivers out there at the. Man, the boys came to. Came to get some work.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Hey, you put. You put the lock on them.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, that's all right, Ocho.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, hey, hey. All jokes aside, though, we got some good work today. We got some really, really good work today.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Y' all got some good work out there?

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah, some good work. So we back at it. Again at 10 in the morning. You know, you'd be doing two days. And it was. We, we had to do the wide receiver workshop a little earlier this year because June and July, obviously we got the World Cup.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

So last year I did the wide receiver workshop in June right before it's time for the players to go to camp. But I got to move it up this year. And now most of the receivers, they had OTAs, you know, they got them incentives and they got a sweet spot.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

So next year we'll be back. I have, I have. I had. Deontay Johnson was there.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

You just got to find that sweet spot. This is an anomaly year, Ocho, because of the World Cup. Yeah.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

So you got an anomaly year, but I still think June is the best time for you to have it. Yeah, yeah. Once they get done with their, their minicamp, because their last training minicamp right before they get their six week break, before they come back for training camp. I still believe the best time for you to have it is in June.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Yeah. So I, I had about four or five NFL receivers and had about maybe 11. College. College. College kids. I was about finna be first rounders.

[Ocho (Sports Analyst / Host)]

That's what's up, bro.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

We got young bull from Ohio State, last name Jeremiah. No, not Jeremiah. Jeremiah. He got a little injury right now. Ennis.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

Hey, he nice.

[Brian (UnitedHealthcare Employee) / Sports Analyst]

Okay.

[Joe (Sports Analyst / Host)]

He nice. He nice. He nice. All them boys nice, man. So I'm excited. I can't wait. I can't wait tomorrow.

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