Nightcap Hour 2: Tyler Kolek CHECKED By NYPD at Parade + Jalen Brunson DROPS MIC on HATERS + Jordyn Woods & Kat BROKE “No Sex” RULE

Summary

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Nightcap Hour 2: Tyler Kolek Checked By NYPD + Jalen Brunson Drops Mic on Haters + Jordyn Woods & Kat Broke “No Sex” Rule

Podcast: Nightcap
Hosts: Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson
Date: June 19, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode captures Shannon Sharpe and Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson’s signature raw, no-holds-barred banter as they react in real time to the day’s biggest NBA headlines and riff on life, clubbing, and the changing culture of sports. Their unique chemistry delivers a blend of locker room storytelling, deep sports knowledge, and social “real talk,” making for engaging and relatable nighttime sports commentary.

The hour focuses on:

• New York Knicks’ championship celebration antics – most notably Tyler Kolek getting stopped by the NYPD at the victory parade;
• Jalen Brunson’s iconic response to critics after delivering a Knicks title;
• Discussion around Jordyn Woods & Karl-Anthony Towns breaking a rumored “no sex” playoff rule;
• Lively host debates about “taking one for the team,” wild times in Houston and Vegas, and the realities of sports discipline on and off the field;
• Deep dive into Lakers offseason drama (Luka Doncic’s demands, LeBron’s contract future);
• The eternal LeBron vs. Jordan legacy argument;
• Plus plenty of playful trash talk among the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reflecting on Youth, Party Culture, and “Taking One for The Team”

[03:00-12:00]

• Shannon, Ocho, and Uncle Joe joke about the importance of having a friend “take one for the team” in their younger days, suggesting even star athletes needed a wingman.
  • Joe: “I had a homeboy that… Hey, I called my homeboy. I should have had liberty to have me call in and ask it. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I already know Sean's gonna have ’em. He said I take leftovers. Hey, hey, I still eat leftovers to this day.” [05:54]
• The hosts reminisce about the “good old days” and the difference between then and now.
  • Ocho: “You can’t fold me. Y’all gotta realize... I was a star athlete, everybody in the surrounding counties knew who I was.” [05:54]
• They riff about club outings, being under neighborhood watch, and how their star status complicated – and sometimes aided – mischief.

2. Clubbing, Hunting, and "Devil's Playground": Houston vs. Vegas

[12:00-18:00]

• The hosts debate the best party cities, recalling epic nights in Atlanta and Houston.
  • Uncle Joe: “Houston’s on another level right now… I call it the Devil’s playground.” [16:58]
• Shannon admits he nearly moved to Houston but Vegas won out, primarily for proximity to LA and self-discipline reasons.
  • “Every man’s got to know his limitations.” [18:17]
• Classic wisdom: “You can look at the menu. You ain’t got to order nothing.” [18:24]

3. Business Expansion Dreams & Live Show Possibilities

[22:03-26:19]

• Ocho and Joe float the idea of all moving to Houston to do Nightcap live every night from a studio, even joking about selling out NRG Stadium.
  • Uncle Joe: “We could do a live Nightcap show and sell out NRG stadium.” [25:17]
  • Ocho: “I see that. I can see that.” [25:22]
• Banter about zero state income tax and “business opportunities” vs. the temptations of Houston nightlife.

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4. Knicks Parade – Tyler Kolek Mistaken for a Fan by NYPD

[26:19-28:10]

• Viral video plays of Knicks guard Tyler Kolek being stopped by police during the victory parade (they didn’t recognize him).
  • Uncle Joe: “He looked like one of the fans that jumped the barricade… An honest mistake.” [26:42]
  • Joe: “He don’t look like Jalen Brunson. He don’t look like Cat…. Bro, get your ass out of here.” [27:10]
• The crew finds humor in the moment, acknowledging how easily “unfamous” bench players can get overlooked.

5. Jalen Brunson’s Championship Moment – Dropping the Mic on Haters

[28:10-30:31]

• Clip plays of Brunson giving a short, pointed speech at the parade:
  • “There’s a lot of people who have a lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong… You don’t have to say to them. Nah, they don’t deserve it.” [28:10]
• Ocho and the hosts praise Brunson’s calm, classy demeanor.
  • Ocho: “I ain’t gotta call no names. None of that. You know who you are.” [28:56]
• Reflection on the gravity of winning an NBA title, especially as a star in New York after a 53-year drought.
  • Ocho: “Not only do I have a championship and I’m the Finals MVP, but I did it in New York, fellas. I did it in the Mecca.” [30:07]
  • Joe: “Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I had a chance to meet his dad. Unbelievable.” [30:31]

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6. Jordyn Woods & KAT Broke the “No Sex” Playoff Rule

[30:59-34:59]

• Discussion about the Knicks’ alleged 10-week “no sex” playoff pledge, reportedly imposed by ownership.
  • Joe: “It’s easier if you’re a boxer – you’re away at camp. But if you’re there... walking around, you get out of the shower, I see that water glistening...” [31:34]
  • Ocho: “It’s gonna go down. It’s gonna go down.” [31:49]
• Ocho recalls old-school locker room stories about coaches feeding players food to suppress libido.
  • Ocho: “...they would put stuff in their food to where their stuff wouldn’t even get hard!” [32:06]
• The hosts agree: for athletes at home, it’s almost impossible to follow such rules—temptation wins.
  • Joe: “I’m disciplined, very structured… but I don’t know about that rule.” [33:43]

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7. Trash Talk: Physicality on the Field & Old Age Realities

[34:59-47:47]

• The trio breaks into lively trash talk about whether Ocho, Uncle Joe, and Shannon could beat each other in football or basketball, poking fun at each other's injuries and rehab.
  • Uncle Joe: “When I do your ass and you understand, there’s no training, no film, nothing you can do to stop me.” [37:57]
  • Ocho: “I have a controlled rage. I really do damage.” [38:07]
• Extended riffing on who would outmuscle or out-technique the other—funny, heated, but in good spirits.

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8. Lakers Offseason Drama: Luka’s Demands & LeBron’s Future

[47:45-55:57]

• Rumors swirl about Luka Doncic pushing the Lakers’ front office for an “A-list” center.
  • Uncle Joe: “All A-list centers are on other teams because they’re A-listers. They’re not even available now.” [48:16]
  • Joe: “Luka can say he needs a championship-level center all he wants… Unless they can defend, they not winning.” [50:40]
  • Ocho: “The Lakers got some real decisions… when you got to make tough decisions, this is where you earn your money.” [52:52]
• They dissect the structure of the modern NBA, supermax contracts, and the difficulties of roster building with star egos and salary cap gymnastics.
  • Joe: “If it’s a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle, Luka is 50 of them.” [53:28]
  • Ocho: “You need a lot of guys to take pay cuts… I don’t see that happening.” [55:29]

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9. LeBron’s Legacy: Will Another Title Change GOAT Debates?

[55:57-61:23]

• Debate: Would a fifth title move LeBron past Jordan for most fans and media?
  • Joe: “There’s in some people’s minds, there’s nothing he can do to supplant what Jordan has done… If they got Jordan as their GOAT, ain’t no moving them off that square.” [58:12]
  • Ocho: “I’m almost sure [LeBron] wants that fifth title… He’s trying to put that scoring record out of reach.” [59:03]
• Joe floats the possibility of LeBron joining the Spurs, but Ocho raises the risk of slowing down young players’ development.
  • Joe: “I like LeBron to the Spurs.” [60:13]
  • Ocho: “I think it slows the process of the growth and development of some of those young guys.” [61:06]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Club Days:
  “Every man’s got to know his limitations.” – Joe, [18:17]
• On Houston’s Temptations:
  “I call it the Devil’s playground.” – Uncle Joe, [16:58]
• On Jalen Brunson’s Parade Speech:
  “There’s a lot of people who have a lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong… you don’t have to say to them.” – Jalen Brunson, [28:10]
• On No Sex Rule:
  “It’s gonna go down. It’s gonna go down.” – Ocho, [31:49]
• On LeBron Legacy:
  “If they got Jordan as their GOAT, ain’t no moving them off that square.” – Shannon/Joe, [58:12]

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• [03:00-12:00]: Reminiscing about the “good old days,” star athlete life, and “taking one for the team”
• [12:00-18:00]: Debate over clubbing in Houston vs. Vegas, land of temptation
• [22:03-26:19]: Joking about moving the show to Houston, potential business expansion
• [26:19-28:10]: Tyler Kolek stopped at Knicks Parade, hosts react to the viral moment
• [28:10-30:31]: Jalen Brunson’s parade speech, Knicks’ legacy in New York
• [30:59-34:59]: “No sex” playoff pledge, hosts discuss discipline and temptation
• [34:59-47:47]: Trash talk—who would win in a physical challenge
• [47:45-55:57]: Lakers roster drama, Luka’s demands, the supermax era
• [55:57-61:23]: LeBron’s future, legacy, and the indelibility of MJ’s status

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Episode Tone

Light-hearted, brash, bantering. The hosts combine locker room tall tales, earnest advice, and real sports insight—a mix that’s both playful and sharply opinionated, never shying from controversy or poking fun at themselves and each other.

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For anyone who hasn’t listened:
This episode is a perfect snapshot of Nightcap’s take on sports and modern culture—a mix of headline analysis, personal stories, and old-school-flavored trash talk that feels as entertaining as it does unfiltered. The Nightcap hosts offer both nostalgia and fresh perspective, making even hardcore NBA contract discussions engaging.

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Transcript

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[Joe]

Presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 5. Goodbye, she said, I heard that call. She had a stick. Man, please. I had to. Hey, me and my homeboy, we had to get it. We got it in. Hey, everybody knew who I was. I. I just needed one to ride shotgun with me. Cuz I was go. I was gonna get me, me. Now I needed somebody. That's why you gotta have that one. Guy better take one for the team. Even if it ain't the team.

[Ocho]

Hello.

[Joe]

He'll take it.

[Ocho]

Hello.

[Joe]

I had it, but, you know, but I got my girl on. Hey, my mama gonna take care of her.

[Ocho]

You gotta have one of them. You gotta have one.

[Joe]

Got that. He was the one. It didn't matter. It didn't matter.

[Uncle Joe]

It didn't matter who she was.

[Joe]

She could be 500 pounds, right? She could be. She could be 311 and 92 pounds.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Right up his alley.

[Uncle Joe]

Damn.

[Ocho]

Take it down through there. I already know it. I already know it.

[Joe]

So. But that was. Them were the days, Joe. I was like, lord have mercy. I was like. Because I was thinking, like, I wonder if anybody else doing this.

[Ocho]

Everybody doing it, bro.

[Joe]

Yeah, but see, I couldn't. I couldn't, like, you know, my. My man, I snuck such and such in the house. My mom was working and so forth. They were gone. And I. Man, I couldn't, man, I couldn't do it. I went, man, please. Ain't nobody bringing on them cast down them iron ass bed. All that squeaking going on.

[Ocho]

Hey, you know, like I tell y', all my oldest and being called a couple times, I know he gonna be probably embarrassed cause he be watching the show. But you know, like real talk, like, you know, we live in a little cul de sac where it ain't but like three houses in this gated community. So it's probably 10 to 12 cameras soon as you turn on the block. So it ain't nothing you can do that. It ain't gonna. It ain't somebody gonna see. Even if my neighbor see it, they gonna come right there. Oh, we see a. We see a car parked back there. And who was that? Oh, okay. All right, let me check on it.

[Joe]

You know what I'm saying? Hey.

[Ocho]

Oh, Joe, he had to. He had to sit out there in the car with his girlfriend one Time, I guess they had been out there about two, three hours. And the car didn't cut off. It didn't stop. It wouldn't start. So damn. So her dad. Her dad calling. But I don't. You know, I'm like, man, I don't know what the hell you talking about. Like, what are you talking about? Like, I ain't thinking my son out there, man. That man out there, you know. I said, man, don't you know, bro, I was once. I. I once used the car at times. I know what you out there doing, bro. You know what I'm saying? They think we crazy, man. Like, bro, why you think I'm so crazy, man? I know everything that going on for sure,

[Joe]

Abs. And that's what I'm saying. I'm like, guys, y' all trying to pull something that I. I did. Whatever you think about. I done thought about it twice. Whatever you did, I did it three times. You can't fold me. I said, y' all gotta realize. I said, the differences between. I was a. I was a star athlete. Everybody in the surrounding counties knew who I was, right? So it wasn't nothing. Like I said, I had a homeboy. Hey, I had a homeboy that. Hey, we be walking the street. Well, you know, I want to, but. Hey, I called my homeboy. I should have. I should have had liberty to have me call in and ask it. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, I already know Sean's gonna have them. He said I take leftovers. Hey, hey, I still eat leftovers to this day. I could call it right now. To this day. Hey, man, look here. I got something I need you to do, man.

[Ocho]

She probably.

[Joe]

I'm telling me, she ain't no looking out. Like my grandma used to say, boy, she ain't easy on the eyes. She hard on the eyes, man. Sharp. You know that ain't. Hey, you know that, right?

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah. He got it.

[Narrator/Advertiser]

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[Joe]

Right? To this day, take it for the team.

[Ocho]

You gotta have one.

[Joe]

You need one. Cause, you know, most of the time, every. See, the thing is, if you think about it, Ocho.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Ain't a whole lot of tens travel with tens. Cause they want to be the baddest one in the group.

[Uncle Joe]

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[Joe]

They gonna Travel with a 10. They gonna be whoever the 10. They might. Might be one more. But then you gonna go out of, like, eight, seven, six, and you always have a two or three in there. Cause, you know, guess what? They got one. They gonna need one to take one for the team.

[Ocho]

Hey, hey, Cat.

[Joe]

What?

[Ocho]

Cause she gonna be Hating. Boy, that look, that two of that four in the. In the group.

[Joe]

He gonna be hating.

[Ocho]

Oh, she gonna be hating.

[Joe]

Hold on. Yeah. Shut up.

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[Uncle Joe]

Hey. Hey, you. You trying to talk.

[Joe]

You talking for.

[Uncle Joe]

They say. Hey, you know how you used to

[Joe]

be down there to call? Hey, you be down there like this here. You on one leg in. In the passenger window. You like this here? What's up? What's up? She in the back. He ain't no sh. Will you be quiet?

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[Uncle Joe]

Hey, it's always one.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Ain't nobody talking to you. First of all, you not driving. You. You in the back seat for a reason, cuz they don't want nobody to see you. I'm talking to her or the driver.

[Ocho]

Yeah, yeah. Every time. Hey, your boy ain't lying, boy.

[Joe]

I want the day to come back.

[Ocho]

Like I said.

[Joe]

Thank you. Ain't got nothing like they pop, huh?

[Uncle Joe]

Good day. That was a good day, though.

[Joe]

That was a fun time. They were. But all you had was like, man. Man, what you gonna be like, man, when you get 25 upset, man? I'm being the NFL. You'd be like, man, sharp. I know, boy. I know you gonna have them. Oh, boy, you gonna have them. My grandma used to tell me all the time, boy, good times ain't gonna owe you nothing. It won't and it don't. That's why. That's what Joe with Ultra we talking about, man. Oh, you need to get out. You need to go.

[Ocho]

You done it.

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[Ocho]

Ojo.

[Uncle Joe]

He didn't.

[Ocho]

He already threw that thing apart. Every boy, he didn't threw it apart at plenty of time.

[Joe]

Vegas, I used to come to. I used to come to Vegas.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Oh, Lord, I, I.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, Joe. See, Unc done had a time, right? But I never had to. I never had the opportunity to have the kind of time he had. You know, I. I wasn't a clubber. There's certain things I still want to do, even at my big age, that I able to experience even during my playing days.

[Joe]

What you want to experience?

[Uncle Joe]

I want to know what it's like to go to the club. Huh? I want to know what it's like, Joe, to pop bottles. I want to know what it's like to stand on the couch, Joe. No, I want to know what that feel like. I still have yet to do that, Joe. I didn't been in Miami all my life, Joe. I ain't been to club live yet, Joe. I done been to booby trap one time that. Cause my older daughter took.

[Ocho]

Hey, Ocho. Ocho, it's overrated. It's overrated. But when you go there and you hunt like we used to do back when we were young, we should be hunting. We should be out hunting.

[Joe]

Hear me? Yeah, for sure.

[Ocho]

We going in there thinking like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna find me something new tonight. Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking something new. Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Now, it can't be overrated, Joe. From the stories I'd be hearing, Joe, it can't be overrated.

[Joe]

But once you. But once you've done it. Joe said, once you've been there and done that.

[Ocho]

See, you ain't see. Oh, you go party now, you ain't gonna be hunting. You just gonna go out there.

[Joe]

Yeah. You got kept on the gas.

[Uncle Joe]

I. I would. The stories that I hear, the stories that I've heard over the years, I want to experience that. And Joe, you know. You know why I ain't go. I ain't spending no money. They telling me how much the. The table and the section. What y' all doing? And I'm. You telling me how good of a time you had. I'm listening to the number that you paid. I'm saying, what you doing? And here I go. About the money you're wasting.

[Ocho]

I understand that. I understand that.

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean, you got me with. I mean, it's over. You got. I mean, for you to. To fully get the concept of what it's like, you got to be single.

[Ocho]

Absolutely.

[Joe]

That's the only. That's the only way you can experience. Because something. There's nothing like a lived experience. Experience. Somebody telling you something is one thing. You living it.

[Uncle Joe]

Right.

[Joe]

Is something entirely different. Like, I can tell people what freak Nick was like, and unless you were there.

[Uncle Joe]

Right. You'll never know.

[Ocho]

Hey, hey. And if you ain't single, that means you.

[Joe]

You ain't.

[Ocho]

You don't give a damn. It's one or the other, either you single, you don't give a damn.

[Uncle Joe]

Right?

[Ocho]

Yeah. Yeah. That's the only way you're gonna enjoy now.

[Joe]

Hey, hold on.

[Uncle Joe]

I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take mother half with me now.

[Ocho]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. Okay.

[Joe]

Well, you ain't gonna. I'm. I mean, look, and from what I hear, they be like that, but I. Nah, I'm good.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, ain't nobody else great. Ain't nobody else getting on the team.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, hey, Joe, why you think I keep telling Unc, man, we gotta. Man, we gotta get down to Area 29.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

The small experience that I had, that adrenaline Rush that high. Being that it's something that I don't do often. That was exciting to me. And I'm good.

[Joe]

It's exciting now, you know. You know, I was. Went to the city and. And the girls fine. I mean, I didn't go a whole bunch, but when I. Hey, they Hey, I can see why guys be marrying them.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey.

[Joe]

Cause they be fine as a mofo. And I'm talking about. And I'm talking about tens.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey. Hey, hold on. Joe. Chad. Joe. I did. I was in. I think I had a sign. And I had a sign. I was in. I was in Houston for one hour. Had to go do a sign right now. One hour. But for one day, I did the show from Area 29. I asked us the owner. I say, dude, I've never been here before. Would you mind? How's the WI fi? Is the WI fi here good? Can I do the show here so I can show unk like, boom. Yeah, I made it happy. I'm a grown man. Why I'm excited to be in Area 29? Because I'm not used to being in that type of environment. Joe. Why had we had. We had three dances on the show? Joe. Joe. They were so. Wait, I can't get myself in trouble. Joe.

[Ocho]

Like that.

[Joe]

Yeah. They was all. They was on the show. They tell their name and.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, Joe.

[Ocho]

Hey, I've never been to Area 20. Was 29.

[News Anchor]

Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, Joe. Oh, my God.

[Ocho]

Oh, Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

Joe. I can sit here and cry right now. And cute. Joe. I ain't never seen that. I ain't.

[Joe]

Look, when I went to the freak nick and I saw those women, I said, I gotta move here. Hey. I say, if I tell the. Hey. I said, I went home because I got there that. That Friday, and back then, we have no hotel. Me and my brother stayed right at the house. You know, the Hyatt right now. Yeah. So went to a. I said, hey, bro, meet me in Atlanta. I said, okay. He said, where we gonna meet at? I said, meet me at the Hyatt. Because back then, they had no gps. I ain't have no Map Quest. I say, hey. Cause we had stayed at the High before. Got there. I said, y' all got any room? They're like, yeah, but you gotta. I have a. Got no credit card. I said, I got cash. How much. How much we got to put down for the deposit? So how many rooms? I said, we need two rooms. I said, I give you $2,000 cash deposit for both rooms. Because, you know, back then, hey, I ain't leave home. I ain't leave home without 10 bands on me, okay? Never left home without 10 bands. At least. At the bare minimum. I don't care like that. I got credit cards now, so I ain't got to carry no kind of cash. Got the room with me and my brother. I said, man, I said, what you think, Spank? He said, man, shh. He said, I'm gonna stay in South Carolina. I said, I'm moving here. I said, I'm moving, man. I called, I got home, got home Sunday night, Monday. I called my agent. Lady met me, like on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

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[Joe]

And I'll close them. I. I had me a house that Thursday. Closed on that thing a month later. Yes, yes, Lord.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, hey. What you think? What you think about it?

[Starbucks Advertiser]

Get.

[Uncle Joe]

Let's get a place in Houston.

[Joe]

Oh, hey, boy, you watch your pull up here.

[Ocho]

Oh, oh, hey, you talking about all three of us?

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, y' all all. Let's get some, you know, probably in the same gated community, you know, some, you know, 10,000 square feet.

[Joe]

No, no, absolutely not. No, absolutely not. Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, you know what you get? You get a lot of bang for your buck when it comes to, you know, your housing.

[Joe]

Now, all I'm saying is this, is that I came this close to moving to Houston before I moved to Vegas. Looked at Austin, looked at Dallas, looked at Nashville, looked at Houston, looked at Vegas. Vegas won out. Because I spent so much time in LA, right? Only a 40 minute flight from Vegas to LA and back and forth to be in Houston. That was the only reason. And then, Lord have mercy, what happened?

[Uncle Joe]

Take your time now what happens?

[Joe]

I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. I mean, I love it. I can't, man. Look here, look here, bro. I live every day, every day. I gotta walk the straight and narrow every day.

[Uncle Joe]

Yes, sir.

[Joe]

The Houston guy, I used to think Atlanta in Atlanta and Atlanta got some nice looking women, don't get me wrong.

[Uncle Joe]

Absolutely.

[Joe]

But Houston's on another level right now.

[Uncle Joe]

Different

[Joe]

right now.

[Uncle Joe]

I call it the Devil's playground.

[Ocho]

Yeah,

[Joe]

so I'm good. Me and babe, you know, Vegas, you know, Vegas be. Be popping it. Don't. But I'm cool. I don't need it to be popping. I don't go down to the Strip unless I got a function. I got something got to do, you know, we doing something with, you know, X, Y and Z. Other than that, I don't go to the Strip. Houston, y'. All. Somebody get a place in Houston.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, hey, hold on. We gonna be out the way now. We ain't got to be in the mix.

[Joe]

Can you.

[Ocho]

Hey, can you. Can you imagine the opportunities what we get in Houston?

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah,

[Joe]

opportunities. You talking about the cat opportunities y' all talking about. I don't want no party.

[Uncle Joe]

We talk about business, you know.

[Joe]

No, I'm good.

[Ocho]

And, man, you ain't even think about it. Your answer so quick.

[Joe]

Oh, oh, hold on. Joe, he talking about, man, I call Houston the devil playground. You looking at the devil. What the hell? No, man, I'm good. No, already know me. Every man. Clint Eastwood said it. Every man got to know his limitations.

[Uncle Joe]

Yes, sir.

[Joe]

Every man got to know his limitations.

[Uncle Joe]

Remember what Joe said. Joe, what you said about the men.

[Ocho]

You can look at the menu. You ain't got to order nothing.

[Uncle Joe]

There it is.

[Joe]

You can look at the menu.

[Uncle Joe]

We good.

[Joe]

How many times you don't like. You know what? As a matter of fact, let me change that. Let me. Instead of baby potato. Let me get the. Let me get the grotting potatoes. How many times you don't change your mind looking at that? Damn me, man, looking for Joe. Hey, listening to that joke.

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[Joe]

Show out of his damn mind.

[Ocho]

Well, hey, look, Houston ain't no joke. For real. I already know.

[Joe]

All right,

[Uncle Joe]

Just a thought.

[Joe]

Ain't no thought. And plus, of all you in Miami. So we all go. Go. We all go. Go to. Joe will get a place. You go get a place. I will get a place. That means I got three places. I got a place in Atlanta, I got a place in Vegas, and I have.

[Uncle Joe]

You don't need. You don't need your place in Vegas. Cause you. You finna. You're gonna get you a big boy out there, Houston.

[Joe]

Oh, no.

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[Joe]

I turned off news altogether. I hate to say it, but I don't trust much of anything. It's the rage bait.

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[Ocho]

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[Joe]

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[Ocho]

Yeah, you can tell.

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[Ocho]

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[Uncle Joe]

Let me tell you something.

[Joe]

Oh, no, that's not going to be my main residence.

[Uncle Joe]

Listen, all jokes aside, if y' all was to do it for real, I leave Miami. Cause that ain't nothing but an hour and 40 minute flight.

[Joe]

I leave.

[Uncle Joe]

Kids come. Kids come with me and all.

[Joe]

Yeah, no, I'm good.

[Uncle Joe]

Or you know the kind of house I can get in in Houston.

[Joe]

Oh, I know, man.

[Uncle Joe]

War. Please.

[Joe]

I know. I'm good.

[Ocho]

I'm good.

[Joe]

I mean, you know, Joe le. You know, hey, Joe, you stay in Atlanta, I'M gonna stay. I think. I think it works perfectly. So. Oo you in Miami, Joe in Atlanta. I'm in Vegas. I mean, we get. Hey, we got a nice little.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, nah, hold on.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

But.

[Uncle Joe]

But think about this. Think about if we all lived in Houston and we all had a studio we can all go to and do live every night. Entertainment.

[Ocho]

No, I don't agree with Ocho too much now. I don't agree with him too damn much, but, yeah, man got a point now.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Joe]

Yeah, he do got a point. Unfortunately, it's on the top of his head. And I ain't listening to nothing that man said. Hell no.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, think about it now. No state taxes now.

[Joe]

Ain't got no state tax in Vegas. They didn't have no state tax in Tennessee.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, but that's why.

[Joe]

Those are the state. That's why I looked at Texas. Dallas, Austin, Houston, Nashville, Vegas, like, okay, Nashville was just too far. Nashville is a place that once I'm done. Done with this, I'm. I can see myself in Nashville. Have me a farm. Have me a couple of little mini highland cows and. And. And horses and some raccoons and stuff on the farm. Stuff like that. Dogs running the property, Stuff like that. But no, no, man, I can't do Houston. Guy, come on, man.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, think about it, boy. My grandma said you only live once now.

[Ocho]

Yolo.

[Joe]

And you know what? If you do it right, that's all you need.

[NBC News Announcer]

I'm good.

[Joe]

If you live right, you don't need to live twice.

[Uncle Joe]

I got you, man.

[Joe]

You outvoted Bad Joe.

[Ocho]

Bad.

[Joe]

See, I keep telling y'.

[Ocho]

All.

[Joe]

Y' all keep. Y' all keep sleeping on Joe now. Y' all see Joe New colors.

[Ocho]

Yeah, listen, listen.

[Joe]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[Ocho]

Listen, I'm following. You guys lead, man. I'm following Ocho League.

[Joe]

I ain't mentioned nothing. I ain't mentioned nothing.

[Ocho]

Ocho did.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, I'm just. I'm just thinking about that.

[Joe]

When we gonna listen to Ocho, huh? Since we started.

[Ocho]

That's what I'm saying. I normally don't listen to him, but he got a pretty good damn point right now.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, I'm talking about taking Nightcap to the next level. Can you imagine? Hey, hey, Joe, what's the name of the Texas stadium?

[Ocho]

Texas nrg.

[Uncle Joe]

I think it's nrg, but think about it.

[Joe]

You talk about what? What The Texas place. But yeah, I think it's nrg.

[Uncle Joe]

Let me tell you, right? We move to Houston, Joe. It's summertime yeah.

[Nissan Advertiser]

Huh?

[Uncle Joe]

We. We could do a live nightcap show and sell out NRG Stadium.

[Ocho]

I see that. I can see that.

[Uncle Joe]

What we talking about? What are we talking about?

[NBC News Announcer]

Huh? Huh?

[Uncle Joe]

Think about the. The business opportunities that we can have. And you.

[Ocho]

Hey, Ocho, I'm with you when you write. We just got to get one person on board. We got to get them on board.

[Uncle Joe]

That's what I'm talking about. We could go do night. We could do nightcap at Denver. I don't even know. I don't know the name of stadium. I don't even know the name of stadium. We can sell out Denver Stadium right now like it's a football game in Cincinnati. We can go sell out paycor Stadium right now. Nightcap in CIT in Cincinnati, live with the big three. Man, talk about, man, we can come out to our own.

[Ocho]

You talking about a time. You talking about a time.

[Uncle Joe]

You gotta. You gotta. You gotta think. You gotta think. Business, man. Business.

[Joe]

Let me think about it.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, okay. Hey, that my dog.

[Joe]

Let's go. The video made the rounds of a backup point guard named Tyler Kick, briefly stopped by police officers who apparently didn't recognize him as a player. Take a look at this video, guys.

[Ocho]

Damn.

[Uncle Joe]

He likeweight. Look like he looked like one of the fans that jumped the barricade. Yeah, he blew right in.

[Joe]

I've seen him on the bench, but I can see they. If they don't watch, they absolutely think he'll fan to jump the barricade he got in there.

[Uncle Joe]

That's an honest mistake on their part.

[Ocho]

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, look, he out there jumping around, running. Hell, I thought he was, too, at first. I ain't gonna lie to you, bro.

[Joe]

How many white guys they got on the team, too? He don't look like Jalen Brunson. He'll look like Cat. He'll look like. He'll look like none of the ones that normally play, Bro, get your ass out of here.

[Ocho]

Right.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey.

[Joe]

Hey.

[Ocho]

They better put his ass right back over that gate.

[Joe]

Exactly. Exactly. They looking at him like, bro, man, I play with the Knicks. I swear I do. Okay, Knicks ain't got no mascot, so. Hell no. But, hey, he was having. He's having him a good old time. Let the bed let the bad live.

[Ocho]

It was, man. Hey, they look like they thoroughly enjoyed themselves out there today, boy.

[Uncle Joe]

Oh, hold on. It ain't over now. You know they. Oh, they finna party. What?

[Joe]

He probably get that. Guess what? He probably get that going to the games, Joe. They looking at who you, bro, you don't play on the team. I ain't never seen you in the game.

[Ocho]

You probably right. You probably right.

[Joe]

Yeah. Jalen Brunson spoke at the parade. Let's take a listen. What JB had to say. There's a lot of people who have a lot of opinions,

[Ocho]

but when you

[Joe]

prove them wrong, you really have to.

[Ocho]

You don't have to say to them,

[Joe]

Nah, they don't deserve it. They don't deserve it.

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[NBC News Announcer]

All.

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[Ocho]

I liked it.

[Uncle Joe]

Oh, you can't. He kept it short and sweet, man. He's supposed to talk issues.

[Joe]

No, he said, I ain't gotta. Hey, I ain't gotta prove y' all wrong. I just gotta prove me right. And then you.

[Ocho]

I ain't gotta call no names. None of that. You know who you are.

[Joe]

But y' all know who you know.

[Ocho]

You are absolutely right.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, that's dope, man. I can't believe him.

[Joe]

Winning a title launches him in a whole new stratosphere. He. I don't even know if he realized what winning that title does at his size in that city, what that's done for his legacy. I only realize. I don't know if he realized.

[Ocho]

Probably not right now. You know, it's kind of hard when you write in the moment, you know, to really, really. To really understand what you've done. But after some time goes by, maybe even a couple weeks, maybe even a month, fellas, you know, he'll probably think back like, damn, man, we really won an NBA championship. Yeah.

[Joe]

Yes. Cause it's. It's so surreal when it's happening and you just caught up in it. You with your boys, y' all laughing, y' all joking, like, man, we having a good time. X, Y, and Z. And then when you get by yourself, you're like, man, now everybody call you Champ. What's up, Champ? Yeah, what's up, Champ? What's up, Champ? You walk into a room, I don't got to take a backseat. Nobody. I got a championship. I'm the finals mvp.

[Ocho]

Hey, not only. Not only do I have a championship and I'm the finals mvp, but I did it in. In New York, fellas. I did it in the Mecca. In the Mecca, bro. What is it, 53 years? An. Ooh.

[Joe]

53.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe]

1973.

[Ocho]

Abrah Brunson stamped. He stamped, bro. He stamped.

[Uncle Joe]

That's dope.

[Joe]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I had an opportunity to meet his dad. Unbelievable. Like I said, as a matter of fact. Oh, I was at. In Atlanta when I met his dad met. I was at dinner and I met the other guys. West and another guy. I forget his name. Was it Rose?

[Ocho]

Leon Rose? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, him and World Wide West. They don't want to put this team together.

[Joe]

Yeah, I met both of them, man. Yesterday, Jordan woods was asked about the rumored no sex rule the New York Knicks players were allegedly encouraged to follow during the 10 week pledge playoff run. The request reportedly came from the very top, with team owner James Dolan wanting players to fully lock in during such a critical stretch. Jordan made it clear she and Cat didn't exactly stick to plan, which what

[Uncle Joe]

we talked about, you know, Ain't nobody sticking to that plan.

[Joe]

It's easier to stick to the plan if you like a boxer or you're like a fighter when you go away and they're not there. But if I'm there, I'm walking around. You walking around. You get out the shower, I see that water glistening off your body.

[Ocho]

It's gonna go down. It's gonna go down. It's gonna go down.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

You need that reset. That reset away from practice. That reset away from all the.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Needed all the stuff going on, man.

[Ocho]

Hey, man, I remember. I remember being in college and coach Nolan Richardson was telling us about. I think it was a time when he was playing. So, you know, this was back in the day. They would put stuff in their food. They would put stuff in their food to where they. They stuff. Wouldn't even get it. Wouldn't even.

[Joe]

Yeah, put that. Salt. They put that. They used to call it salt pea.

[Ocho]

I can't remember the name he said, but he said your jump wouldn't even get hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you wouldn't have sex when you was competing?

[Joe]

Well, you could. Hey, boy, you'd have to pour the gun at the beginning. Real talk, Joe. I'm telling you now,

[Uncle Joe]

Man.

[Joe]

Hey, like I said, if you go away Ocho, like. Like them boxers or people go away to train, you go six, eight weeks, you had a camp. Ain't no women there.

[Uncle Joe]

No, no, no.

[Joe]

So it's e. I'm not saying it's easy. It's easier.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Because the. The temptation is not there. But if you around, oh, I'm laying there and she's snuggling. She back up next to me, huh?

[Ocho]

You already know it.

[Joe]

She got a T shirt on. You know that the best lingerie is a T shirt. No baddies. That's the best lingerie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. Dolan, I understand what you're saying, but

[Uncle Joe]

yeah, it sounds good.

[Joe]

Look, I'm superstitious as well. Now, had we. Look, we wore the same once we in. In the super bowl that year, we wore the same. Everybody wore the same suit. So the last. We won that game in Kansas City, we wore that suit to Pittsburgh. We wore that suit to play Green Bay in. In San Diego. But I don't know how. I. I don't know. And I. I'm a very disciplined and I'm very structured. But, boy, I don't. I don't know about that. I don't know about that rule.

[Ocho]

Yeah. Hey, you got to be different, boy. Locked in.

[Joe]

I mean, how many times the guy is gonna go to the bar and knows that, you know, hey, he likes alcohol. He gonna go to the bar for 10 weeks, sit at the bar. Him really? Guy gotta get a problem. O Jojo. He gonna go to the casino and sit at the blackjack table. He gonna sit at the craft table and. Come on, let's be real. Like I said, if, if. If we go away, no problem. As a matter of fact, just to make sure. Hey, don't send me no pictures. Hey, don't be talking. Hey, just. Hey. Hey. Hey, how you doing?

[Ocho]

I'm good.

[Joe]

Blah, blah, blah. Had a dog. Good. Hey, kid, you know, if you married, got. Hey, kids, good. All right, y' all at you. But to be walking around, man, please, because they're gonna be a time that you're gonna look back and wish you could. They gonna be a tag. It ain't gonna be longer than 10 weeks. It might be 10 months. It might be 10 years. When all you could do is think about what you used to be able to do.

[Uncle Joe]

All right, I'm good days.

[Joe]

We do that right now. Hey, Joe, you. Hey, man, you. Joe, you be thinking about, man. Man, I remember I used to get up and down this cold. Hey, I can run up and down this coat seven, eight, nine, ten times. Let three, four threes go. Get down, lay the ball up, get it back, do all that. All that. Just a figment of your imagination now.

[Ocho]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Damn.

[Ocho]

Hey, I'm gonna get back to it, though, huh?

[Joe]

Well, you better get back to it. For Ocho. For Ocho. Because you need to go and get that leg back strong, Joe.

[Ocho]

Oh. Oh. If I don't do nothing else with tears in my eyes, you and Ocho look at me with tears in my eyes. Yeah, well, I get this leg right, Ocho, I promise you. Chat. Y' all hear me out. Boy, you gonna be. I'm coming to Miami. You're gonna be the first person I come see.

[Uncle Joe]

I tell you what, them tears probably gonna keep flowing now you play me.

[Ocho]

Hey, we talk about a mean demonstration on here with tears in my eyes, homie.

[Joe]

You gonna put it down on the joke?

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, hey, uncle crying.

[Ocho]

Oh, if his ass, if he want to go viral, damn it, he going viral that day. Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, Joe, it's so funny. It's so funny. I gotta, I got a Mexican, Mexican homeboy just like you.

[Ocho]

What do you mean? What you mean, huh?

[Uncle Joe]

You got, he got one leg,

[Ocho]

Ocho. I, I, you know what? I know we, we have a good time on here, but I really ain't the one to play with. I'm just gonna keep it 100 with you. I really am.

[Uncle Joe]

When I look at you. It's a game.

[Ocho]

Okay?

[Uncle Joe]

Huh? Hey, Joe. When I see you, Joe, you like an Xbox, Okay?

[Ocho]

That's all I need. See, for a guy like me, Ocho, I just need one thing to piss me off. And once I get pissed off, it's a rap. It's a rap.

[Joe]

He pissing you off right?

[Ocho]

Now,

[Joe]

that man, Joe, Ocho, that man said you got him pissed to the highest level of positivity.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, the funny thing about it, too, you know what I did before every game, 11, 12 years straight, I tried to piss my opponents off. I tried to piss him off because

[Joe]

I want you try. So this, this is your tactic. This is, this is what Ocho is known for.

[Uncle Joe]

I want you as mad as possible. So when I do your ass and you understand, there's nothing you could do. There's no training, there's no film. There's nothing you do to stop me from keeping me off the way.

[Ocho]

Hey, it's gonna be. See, when I'm pissed off, I ain't out of control. I, I have a control rage. You know what I'm saying? Control rage. How to keep things in the pocket and really do damage. Like, I'm, I'm really, I'm really not. What you looking for, Ultra? I'm just gonna keep it 100.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, what you, what you described to me, it sound like you're playing a video game. This. That ain't real life. That ain't real life. Because I got, I got a set of skills, a peculiar set of skills that over time, that I've mastered, that

[Joe]

you've acquired over, over a finite period of time.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He don't even know what he's getting himself into because I laugh and I joke and I entertain.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yeah, he take you for a joke.

[Uncle Joe]

He didn't even see that.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

You ain't seen that, Joe.

[Ocho]

All right, well, I'm looking for it. I'm looking for the other side.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, John, take my. I'm flip your ass.

[Ocho]

Okay, well, I want to see it. I want to see it.

[Joe]

I want to see it.

[Ocho]

With your little tough ass, I want to see it.

[Uncle Joe]

You go see it.

[Joe]

But. But, Joe, you got to get the leg. I mean. I mean, you almost two. You almost 100 pounds of pressure. Less on the left.

[Ocho]

I'm working every day. I'm get there. Don't even worry about that. I'm gonna get you.

[Uncle Joe]

And he was saying, hey, he been working on that leg for about a dam. I ain't trying to hear that no more, man.

[Ocho]

Ain't been for 10 months. It been 10 months, bro.

[Uncle Joe]

That two more months is a year.

[Ocho]

Yeah, that's in two more months. I'm gonna be. Two more months. I'm gonna be right. What the hell you talking about?

[Uncle Joe]

All right.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Ocho]

All right.

[Joe]

You rehab. How many days a week you rehab? Two.

[Ocho]

Every day. Five Every.

[Joe]

Every day. He rehabbing every day.

[Uncle Joe]

It's so funny. He rehabbing just to be back in rehab when I'm done with it.

[Ocho]

Okay, well, you gonna see. Oh, Chad, Chad, I promise you. I promise you, boy. Hey, look, if I don't put down a mean demonstration, boy, something wrong. You hear me? I promise you.

[Uncle Joe]

But something wrong. Something wrong already. Something wrong.

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You.

[Uncle Joe]

You thinking you could do something with me in any sport, let alone. Damn, Joe, I'm better than you at your own job.

[Ocho]

You think so?

[Uncle Joe]

And I'm a Hooper, Joe. Huh?

[Ocho]

Oh, wow, boy. A lot on camp.

[Uncle Joe]

I'm ready, man.

[Joe]

I know. I was thinking. I was thinking he'd get you in. In a. In football, Joe, but he talking about he. You think he give me. Hold on, hold on.

[Ocho]

What make you think he get me in football? You think because he get Damn.

[Joe]

Okay. Give me no damn football. Hey, hey, Joe. Oo. Joe say hey. All he gotta do is put the hands on you because you know Joe got them all.

[Ocho]

What he gonna do with that? Tell the truth. What he gonna do with that?

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, the same. The same thing. Everybody else for long.

[Ocho]

I'm pushing. Hey, I'm gonna push this little ass down in the dirt. He ain't gonna be damn.

[Uncle Joe]

Yo, ain't nobody finna touch me off that line. Joe, stop.

[Joe]

Joe. So. So, Joe, you go, hey, you. What you gonna do? You gonna do the creek and you gonna pretend like you Walking off and freezing. James, you gonna stab. What you gonna do?

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[Ocho]

I'm gonna mix it up. I ain't gonna never mix it up on you again. I'm gonna give him a little bit of everything.

[Joe]

Ocho. Hey. He say, you know, hey, we so be able saw what Sneed did. Sneed did Tyreek.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that ain't gonna work.

[Ocho]

Oh.

[Joe]

Or he got the stab. Hey.

[Uncle Joe]

Bam.

[Joe]

A bam.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey. As soon as he stabbed, I'm grabbing that wrist and pull it through.

[Ocho]

Because when I put my hands on him, when I grab him, I'm gonna lift his little ass up off the ground.

[Joe]

Damn. Damn, Joe.

[Ocho]

Lift this little ass up.

[Joe]

Yeah. I mean. Cause you got five. You got. You got five yards. Yeah.

[Ocho]

Hello. Hello.

[Joe]

You got five.

[Ocho]

And you know. You know he don't like to be touched. He ain't physical. He don't want that. He don't want that contact. Damn.

[Joe]

Oh, Ocho, that man said you don't want that contact.

[Uncle Joe]

You ain't physical.

[Joe]

He said you don't.

[Ocho]

You don't want that contact.

[Joe]

Ocho.

[Uncle Joe]

Come on. Come on up there with your bad self. Then I tell you that. Matter of fact, the first rep, I'm gonna just run right through you.

[Ocho]

That ain't possible.

[Uncle Joe]

Yeah. Just to set the tone, to let you know. Hold on.

[Joe]

Hold on, Ocho. You gonna run on the top.

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[Joe]

I turned off news altogether.

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[Joe]

don't trust much of anything. It's the rage bait.

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[Ocho]

Why is it always chaos when we link up?

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[Ocho]

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[Joe]

Load up we out.

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[Ocho]

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[Uncle Joe]

Run right through him. He think. He think I'm a shake. I'm running right through him. Running.

[Ocho]

Come on. Keep it 100, bro. Keep it 100. Come on.

[Joe]

I don't know. I don't. I don't know about that, Ocho. I mean, Joe. Joe say 250 right now.

[Uncle Joe]

What that means? What'd that tell you? If he too feeding slow, he gonna be his feet. His feet gonna be moving.

[Ocho]

68. I should be about 250ojo.

[Uncle Joe]

And that 6, 8 don't mean nothing. Jolly Green Giant. I don't see that. I don't see that. Joe. Listen, I'm not under them other. Them other little giant turkeys you be playing, Jody. I'm not one of them. Yeah, it's different over here, Joe. You know where I'm from.

[Joe]

I don't know. Ocho, you better get your SWAT gay. You better get your hands ready. Cause I don't know you Ain't did a whole lot of swatting lately.

[Uncle Joe]

Listen, Joe, that's cooking.

[Ocho]

He.

[Uncle Joe]

He think.

[Joe]

He think.

[Ocho]

Cause he been out there with them high schoolers. I've been out killing the high school.

[Uncle Joe]

High school? High school.

[Joe]

Yeah. Them kids out there working with, those are.

[Uncle Joe]

Those are premier college. They high schoolers and NFL receivers, huh? Everybody, bro.

[Ocho]

Not only, not only my db, but you already know he damn sure can't guard me. You know he can't guard me.

[Joe]

Hey, hey, Joe said he. Joe said. Hey, Joe said he want the ball in the red zone. He said just put it.

[Ocho]

What that man gonna do?

[Uncle Joe]

Let me tell you. Hey, hey, if Joe is a db, his Stanford definitely burn. That's what it's gonna be. He definitely burnt. You get out there in front of me with that,

[Joe]

Joe. Joe said. Hey, Joe said the red zone say he. He moss, man. Come on, man.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, he not even gonna get off the line. All I'm gonna do is I'm jump. I'm jump. I'm gonna jump. Jammy. He ain't gonna get.

[Joe]

Oh, you're free. You gonna free. You go quick and quick.

[Uncle Joe]

Him quick. Hey, grab him right up in between here. Right in between here. He gonna be. Hey, he holding. He holding. Nah, I got five yards to do this.

[Joe]

You got five yards.

[Ocho]

Chat. Y' all gonna get to see it. I promise you. Y' all gonna get to see it.

[Joe]

Trust me.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, you've been saying. You've been saying that for 10 months, bro. I'm about. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. I didn't stop.

[Ocho]

No, no, you ain't now you ain't.

[Uncle Joe]

And then now all of a sudden, now you hurt.

[Ocho]

Okay, here we go.

[Uncle Joe]

Okay, he ducking. Smoke. Huh? Oh, my knee. Hurry.

[Joe]

According to Dave McMenamin, Luka wants the Lakers to acquire an A list center to build a championship caliber team around him as soon as possible. According to those close source took from Luka, he wants it to be a championship team yesterday. Ever since the trade, they've always told us summer of 26. We'll show you in the summer of 26. So here we are. Summer of 26 is here. Joe, An A list. Hold on, hold on. Is not DeAndre.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, excuse me before you go, Joe, All A list centers are on other teams because they are A listers. Yeah, they're not even available now.

[Joe]

I guess he's looking at Walker Kessler. Who? We don't know that situation. Jalen Duran. We don't know that situation. Are they gonna make a trade where they try to get Joel Embiid? I don't know. But like Ocho said, most of the aliens, the only ones that's not on the on the contract would be Kessler enduring.

[Uncle Joe]

Hey, I like, I like what you just said.

[Joe]

Like Embiid, but in beat. But Embiid is really not. He's not a mobile guy. Embiid is not a guy that's gonna pick and roll and get. He's not a law threat anymore. He's a ground descendant, guys. Everybody knows that. And that's not a knock on him. He's still a phenomenal player, but he's done lost all of his athletic, A lot of his athleticism, his quickness that gave him a decided advantage at his size is not there.

[Ocho]

Listen, granted, Lucas say he wants a he, he wants a real big man or you know, a list center. He already said he don't want to get rid of ar. He want AR to stay there. I mean, damn, what, what they supposed to do what they want to make.

[Joe]

But you know, Ocho Joe, that's a lot of time that's guys talking. Because when they do what I wanted, they did what they want to do. But I want to know what they're saying behind closed doors. Because the likelihood of you signing AR and signing a championship Kessler or bringing in Durant or getting on the Joel Embiid, that's not and top of your

[Ocho]

salary, that means that mean you, that mean you don't plan on having Brian back?

[Joe]

No. Braun? No. Marcus?

[Ocho]

Mark? No. Damn. Like, bro, you gonna need, you need, you gonna need those pieces. If you talking about contending for a title, let alone hell just playing in the Western Conference, bro, you know, I, I, I feel like the Lakers got to do what's best for the Lakers. Do they need a center? Yeah, they do. But who, who is that? I don't know. It's just hard for me to see Detroit letting big fella go. Yeah, it's hard for me seeing them Detroitly.

[Uncle Joe]

He finna get the super max. How the legging can't do that.

[Ocho]

You think they're gonna give him the supermax ojo the Pistons? Yeah, I don't know. I think they gonna they I, I think.

[Joe]

But Harris. But the thing, but the thing I, I go back to, Luca can say he need a championship level center all he wants to, right? Unless they can defend they not winning. Luca can't score enough points. And then he and Austin Reeves are liabilities in clutch situation. So unless you got a big lead, if it's a, a one to two point ball game, they gonna get whatever they want. Go back and look at the Lakers and watch them in close ball games. Who they picking? The. Who did they put in the pick and roll? Go back and look at okc. Austin Reeves was in the pick and roll. Go back and look at the regular season before he got hurt. Look who was in the pick and roll. You got to have defenders. And unless you build a team because Luca Lucas enough offensively, but unless you build him a team like Jalen Brunson where you got three Wink, three defenders,

[Ocho]

that mean you. That mean, hell, somebody gotta take a pay cut. If you want that. I mean, you're gonna need Luca. I know Luca came in, in, in, in the camp in the season last year, he had shedded some pounds. But you gonna need him to be able to be durable throughout the season.

[Joe]

That's the problem.

[Ocho]

You know. Hey, hey, listen. For me, I know he a hell of a first half player, especially at first quarter. He probably led the NBA in first quarter points. But when it comes down to stretch and closing games, man, you're gonna need that boy to be healthy. You're gonna need him to be healthy.

[Joe]

And the thing is, he doesn't. He's never gonna have a body that you look like. You look at him and say, oh yeah, he right. That ain't. That's not how the European bodies are.

[Ocho]

Right, right.

[Joe]

And man, I mean, maybe AK47, the only one off the top of my head, but you look at Jokic and Manu and him, those guys, they're not present.

[Ocho]

They ain't cut up like that.

[Joe]

No,

[Ocho]

no, the Lakers got some, they got some real decisions.

[Joe]

They got some decisions. And this, see, this is where you earn your money. Because when you got to make tough decisions because it's not guys that you drafted, you've got to put a team together and basically, okay, I got one big, I got really. I got one big central piece. Because I think all things being equal, the most important thing the Lakers is Luca. He's that big central piece. If it's a jigsaw, if it's 100 piece jigsaw puzzle, Luca is 50 of them.

[Ocho]

Facts.

[Joe]

With that being said, now, what are the other pieces that we build first that we add to Luca, that makes us Spurs, Thunder, Nuggets, Minnesota. That's what you got to deal with just in the west.

[Ocho]

And that's tough, boy, because the spurs, okc, they ain't going no damn well no time soon.

[Joe]

And they younger than you.

[Ocho]

Yeah, they gotta figure it out.

[Joe]

But we're gonna, we're gonna see. But I tell you what, they're gonna have to win a championship with Luc.

[Ocho]

Yeah, we got you.

[Joe]

Cause for as much as people have criticized LeBron, in eight years, guess who's won exactly one NBA title?

[Ocho]

LeBron.

[Joe]

Giannis.

[Ocho]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe]

Guess who else is won in eight years won the title. Jokic. And everybody talking about how great. The same number as LeBron.

[Ocho]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Now they won more MVPs, obviously. I think LeBron the year, the year after they won it. LeBron was on a great, a great stretch before Solomon Thomas. Remember Solomon Solomon Hill clip. He got the hot ankle sprain. He was never the same when he came back. But I just, I just don't know how you build the requisite pieces around when your central figure is Luca and he didn't take a pay cut. And I think the thing is everybody, general managers and owners are going to think everybody be like Jalen Brunson. And that ain't happening, right?

[Ocho]

No, because I don't, I don't got, I don't got AR taking no pay cut. I don't see Rui taking no damn pay cut.

[Joe]

Hell no.

[Ocho]

Mark is smart. Whatever the market is for him, I don't see him taking no damn pay cut.

[Uncle Joe]

Right.

[Ocho]

Guys ain't taking open.

[Joe]

He's like, I took a pay cut last couple the last year, which I don't blame him. So it's gonna be very very, it's very, gonna be very interesting to see how they put this thing together.

[Ocho]

It is, man.

[Joe]

McManaman also writes the Lakers are not expected to offer Brian anything close to the max contract. The Lakers could have around 50 million available before negotiating with Reeves, but that's without factoring in John James and fellow free agent Roy Hachimura. Joe, do you see LeBron taking a team friendly deal?

[Ocho]

I don't, fellas, I'm sorry, I don't see it. I know he, you know, building a nice house he got out there in la, but yeah, I don't see that man taking no pay cut. Because, you know, for him, you know, the, the longevity that he's had in this game and the way he takes care of it, takes care of his body and the way he enjoys playing the game, playing at a high level still at 41 years old. Hey, man, he understands. Look, if you ask Braun, he the goat. He the best. He the best. Ever do it. That man ain't taking no damn pay cut to where he the fifth, sixth highest paid player on the damn team. He ain't doing that.

[Joe]

Can I ask you a question, Joe? Where can he go and get a max contract at 42? Because I think a max contract is somewhere like three years, somewhere between 150 and 180. Where can he go and get that? Tell me the team that's going to offer him that.

[Ocho]

I don't know if a team gonna offer him that, but I think. Yeah, but I think if you talking about doing a one year deal, maybe even a two year deal with a player option, I think that's possible, Uncle Ocho. Three years is going to be tough.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's what I believe. I believe it's one of an option, right? But here's the thing. How much is the one and how much of the option?

[Uncle Joe]

Right? You know what I think and what you thinking? Correct me if I'm wrong, Uncle Joe, if LeBron understood the team he was going to as far as taking a pay cut, if he understood that it was actually a championship caliber team and he actually had a chance to win.

[Joe]

No, I still don't believe it.

[Ocho]

I don't think, I don't think if

[Uncle Joe]

I actually have a chance to win another, another. Another chip and, and add to my legacy that's already cemented and get another ring. I say, I would say there is

[Joe]

nothing LeBron can do. People of mine are made up. You've heard, how many people, Joe, have you heard say he can win five rings and he's still not going to be better than Jordan? He could score 50,000 points and he's still not going to be better than Jordan? So there's in some people's mind, there's nothing he can do to supplant what Jordan has done, right? Because they're going to say, well, yeah, you won five rings, but it took you 24 years. Jordan did it in 15, Kobe did it in 20. You see, the comparisons always be there. So me personally looking at the landscape and hearing people talk, I don't believe there's anything LeBron James can do that will change people's mind. If they got Jordan as their goat, ain't no moving them off that square. Joe. Me personally, Joe, you might have another opinion. Ocho, you might have another.

[Ocho]

I think you're right on that. Considering the fact that Jordan got there six times and won all six. He has an unblemished record in the finals, in the final. But if I'm braun, Brian wants that fifth title. He wants, he wants that fifth title. I I, I'm, I'm almost sure that. And he understands the legacy that he's gonna leave behind when he's done. Like we are, like we talk about now. Every point that he scores goes down in history, fellas. He's trying to, he's trying to put that record out your damn misery. Like, you ain't gonna come into the league thinking you finna even pass that. You know what I mean? I feel like he is one of those guys. So I think he thoroughly enjoys playing the game and I think he, he wants to continue to put this scoring title out of reach. And yes, I think he does wants to compete and win a fifth championship.

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[Joe]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Uncle Joe]

Having to do that, though, think about it now. Having to do that and compete for another championship. You can't go to another team and then take max dollars thinking you're going to be able to help that. That's not going to work. It's not going to work that way. Now, if you just want to go off into the sunset getting as much as you can based on what your true value value is, then, yes, okay, I'll stay with the Lakers.

[Joe]

I think for LeBron. LeBron looks at it. It's like my job to fix your salary cap and put a team together. You know what I bring. You know what I bring to the table? And I, I. Said this before. I. I like LeBron to. I like LeBron to the Spurs. Do you? Yeah.

[Uncle Joe]

He would have to take a pay cut.

[Ocho]

Well, I think that.

[Joe]

Well, I mean, only. The only person that's, that's really, really. That's, that's there for what you call them is. Is Wimby. You got to do something with wimby. Everybody else could wait another year.

[Uncle Joe]

And there's your. There's your fifth time.

[Ocho]

The only thing, the only thing about this. I don't like the Spurs, Uncle. I'm gonna tell you why. I think it slows the process of the growth and development of some of those young guys, like, Like Harper. Because I think as great as LeBron is, it's a learning curve to be able to play with him. You know what I mean? Like a lot of young guys. Hell, no.

[Joe]

Because he needs the ball. Yeah.

[Ocho]

Because he wants to distribute Playmate, which is, I think, is probably, probably his biggest attribute as far as playmaking.

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