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Hey, hey. It's a good time to be a Razorback, fellas. Hey, hey, hey. We gotta show us some love, Uncle Ojo.
Joe Johnson
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Chad Ochocinco
Okay.
Joe Johnson
Reuben Hurt.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, yeah. Yes.
Joe Johnson
But. Oh, Joe. And Joe. Michael B. Jordan, best actor Oscar. What do you think? Surprise.
Liberty City Zone
I mean, I'm absolutely, absolutely not surprised. Obviously, his resume speaks for herself. Some of the things that he's done. Fruitville Station, obviously, being one of the. One of the earlier ones I've watched Michael Jordan on, and his work has been phenomenal up to date. I think he's worthy of the Oscar and. And watching. And watching Sinners and him playing dual characters and being able to. To show his range, you know, as an actor. He was due for a damn Oscar. Obviously, for those that didn't see the movie, I'm sure you've seen it, you know, to date. It has so many layers that you can peel back so much history, you know, that. That goes into it once you get a better understanding on what you're watching and how it touches different eras. So. So congratulations to Michael B. Jordan and everyone that was a part of making
Joe Johnson
all the other nominees. Joe, did you get an opportunity?
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, I'm not. I. I ain't. I ain't even seen. Send us Uncle Ocho. I ain't gonna sit here and lie to y', all, but it's not surprising to me because he's one of the highest grossing, you know, actors in Hollywood. I mean, he. He's made his way, bro. I enjoy Watching him on the big film. On the big film. But now I ain't get a chance to see Sinners, man.
Joe Johnson
My.
Chad Ochocinco
My lady was telling me about it, though. I heard it's long.
Joe Johnson
It took me a while. It wasn't until the end that I really started to catch up. Like, oh, okay, I see what y' all did. I see what y' all did. Because in the building, again, I couldn't understand, like, okay, why would they just. Y' all vampires just going in the house. But just like a lot of things, you got to be invited in. And so once you get the backdrop of that. But you see him, you see some of the greats. Jamie Foxx, unbelievable in Ray. Unbelievable in Ray. Far as Whitaker, I think he won for the Last King of Scotland, where he played Edi Ami. I think that was the role. Phenomenal. He was great. Sidney Poitier, I think he played in the Heat of the night. Mr. Tibbs. Yeah, I think that's the one he ran for.
Liberty City Zone
Or who.
Joe Johnson
Look who's coming to. Or whether. Who. Look who's coming to dinner. Lilies of the field.
Chad Ochocinco
Okay,
Joe Johnson
James, obviously. And Halle Berry, one for Monsters Ball. Hattie McDaniel won a supporting role back in, I think, 19th. Well, wasn't that gone with the win? Yeah, 1939. Okay, so look, this is about here. But we're not gonna go back and try to rewrite history and say what this should have. Coulda, woulda, coulda happened. All I know is in the present tense, he's one. And I know there are a lot of people that are extremely excited, hopefully, you know, look, and, you know, people have been like, oh, they hired this guy to say the N word, and they had to give it to him. No, the world. He was unbelievable. In Centers, he was.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, you can't. You can't take that away from him. Regard. Regardless. Regardless. If you watch this, if you watch the movie, if you watch the film, if you. If you watch his work.
Joe Johnson
Yes, general. He does a good job. Yes, general.
Liberty City Zone
Up to date, including what he did in Sinners, he was worthy of the Oscar. So listen, so are the other nominees as well. But tonight was Michael. They. Tonight was Michael B. Jordan night, and nothing else can take away from that.
Joe Johnson
Obviously, when somebody wins, somebody has to lose. Ocho. That's. That's just the way it is. You get these nominations, and it is an extreme honor to just be nominated for your work because, you know, there are a lot of. There are a lot of great actors and actresses that have played extremely incredible roles. That weren't nominated, that wasn't acknowledged for their work in a given film. But to even be acknowledged. Yeah, I know, yes, it hurts. And I know everybody's like, it's just. Just to be acknowledged. No, you want to win because I'm here now. It's like getting to the super. Yeah, it's like getting to anything. Go to. Well, I'm just. I'm just glad to be a part of it, bro. I didn't put all this time in. I didn't go to Juilliard and take those. Those classes to become a better at my craft. Just to say I was nominated and gotten here. It is a huge honor. So don't get me wrong, it is an extreme honor. But to actually win the award, when there's, you know, once a year we get an Oscar for the best. The best actor or actress in a lead role, in a supporting role, and they have a host of other categories. But Michael B. Jordan, we are extremely proud. I know there's a lot of people that are extremely proud of you, bro. But I want you to know that your community is extremely proud of you. The way you handle. You and Darl Lindo handled that situation, we couldn't be more proud of you because a lot of people couldn't handle that situation the way you guys did. You stood in the face of whatever the case. Look, let's not go through that. But the way you stood up there on that stage with pride and held your head up high. Extreme mother. It's. It's extreme honor to call you a brother. It's an extreme honor. So we're. We're proud of you. I know Denzel is extremely happy. Jamie, you know, I know Jamie a little bit. Met Denzel. No. Denzel a little bit. I haven't met any of these others. Forest Whitaker, I love hearing the Godfather of Harlem. I love him in the Godfather. Harlem. The problem is that I watch all the episodes. I binge watch. So I watched like 12 episodes over two days, and then I'm done. I don't have anything else to do. Obviously, Halle has played some. Some roles. Her and Monster Ball. She's been a superhero. She's been in the Avenger with X Men and things of that nature. So we're extremely proud. But tonight, Michael B. Jordan, bro. Bro, we.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, congrats.
Joe Johnson
We salute. If I had a hat on, I take my hat off to you, bro. Congratulations. Honor well deserved. Ryan Coogler, original screenplay, bro. From the bay. For what you've been able to do with. With Black Panther Fruitvale Station Creed now sinners and the way the way you change Hollywood that the center is going to revert back to you after a quarter century. Congratulations bro. Congratulations. Like I said, this community is extremely proud of you and what you've been able to do. There are a lot of people that laid the foundation before you and that we should be a Will Packer. Don't think we forgot about you. Tyler Perry we haven't forgot about you but the but but for what these two gentlemen has been able to do and so young in their careers, we want to say thank you. We support you, we honor you. Tonight is your night. Take a bow. Very well deserved bow and no nightcap and people around the world we are extremely extremely excited.
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night Joe, we're gonna get to the ball game. Last night the Nuggets lost a game to the Lakers in overtime, but it looks like some things should have been different near the end of regulations. Austin Reeves went to the free throw line a few times with seconds remaining in the game, but the first time he went to the line, it was Spencer Jones who drew the foul. Today during the last two minute report stated that Reeves was not supposed to go to the free throw line. The last two minute report, the Nuggets determined that Austin Reed should not have been awarded two free throws with 9.2 remaining in regulation ruling that Spencer Jones had a clean strip. That would have changed a lot for the Nuggets and it could have had extended their lead. Instead, Reeves knocked down both free throws. They fouled. Boom, boom, boom. And one thing led to another and the next thing you know, a perfectly time missed free throw by Austin Reeves. He gets the free throw. He gets to the bucket. Tough layup over the top, 1.9 second. They tried to heave it. It doesn't go in. And we know what happens. They win it overtime. Joe, I particularly don't like the last two minute report because what does it change? It's not like you're going to take those points off the board and give the Nuggets the victory. So why the hell you gonna make us more upset? Because we didn't think it was a fire to begin with.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, hey, hold up though. Uncle Ocho, when I was playing here for the Hawks, we was playing the Miami Heat. This one D. Wade and Shaq was playing. They had. It was something like that. Like a two minute, last two minutes of the game. They messed up. Listen, when we played them again, we started in the fourth quarter with like two minutes left. And then when that game was over, that was a whole.
Joe Johnson
Y' all started a new game.
Chad Ochocinco
Started a whole new. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying they. They doing all these grapes and grown. They gonna go back and change it. They gonna make these dudes start it.
Joe Johnson
You know what I mean? Start at 9.2 seconds.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, bro, we. Ocho, we started in the fourth quarter with two, three minutes on the clock, and I think we was up. I think we was up by like two or something. But they had the ball and we had to play it out like a real.
Joe Johnson
Did y' all win?
Liberty City Zone
Oh, that's.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, we end up. We end up winning
Liberty City Zone
and that's crazy.
Chad Ochocinco
It did jump right to the next game, but I don't know. Yeah, I think that this, this rule, they got to where they, you know, the last two minutes, they. What were they doing? Just telling.
Joe Johnson
That should have been a foul. That shouldn't have been a file. They missed it. It was a loose possession, you know, blah, blah, blah, the shot clock, things of that nature. If, if.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, look, if it don't go your way, you pay.
Joe Johnson
Exactly.
Chad Ochocinco
That's it.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, hey, Uncle Joe, why not? In. In pivotal times like that, towards the end of game, when it comes to files, why don't I have like, like a var or some type of replay system to make sure The. The refs are getting the call, right? Because, you know, with the human eye, human error is inevitable sometimes. Sometimes in fast motion, you know the rest. Get it. Get the call wrong. So in. In. In pivotal moments like that towards the end of games, why don't they just review every foul that they think every
Joe Johnson
foul, man, the game would be the same thing in football. The game's already long enough. O. What you want a full 5 hour game? I mean, I mean, I'm just have challenges the way they had them blown the thing. The only thing I would say is this. If you win your ch. If you get two challenges, if you win both, you should get a third. You shouldn't be able to exhaust both of your challenges and not have any more. If I got those now, if you miss any of those, obviously it's over. But if I get both of my challenges right, Ocho, you should reward me kind of like another one.
Chad Ochocinco
There you go.
Joe Johnson
So. And I think that might have been a situation where they could have challenged. I don't think they had any more challenges. And that's what you have to be careful and judicious of how you use your challenges. And when you use them, you don't really want to blow through your challenges in the first half. Joe and Ocho, you want to kind of keep those things, keep it on ice just in case.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, right.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, hey, but, but, but, but the hard thing is when you got your. Your best players on the court telling you, look, review every play as a coach. As a coach, you like, man, I can't review everything.
Joe Johnson
But, you know, sometimes just let it go. We two, Joe. We two minutes in the first quarter, and Luca doing this. I'm like, well, damn, Luca. The game just started and then a lot of review stuff. And your star player, you want to take him at his word and he get that thing dead wrong. And I'm over there like this man, now with.
Chad Ochocinco
With no more challenges. And then in the. In fourth quarter, come fourth quarter, at the end of the game, now you need it. You done blew it on some.
Liberty City Zone
You blew it on some bull drive.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
And so that. That's. That's what you have to be careful. But.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh, my goodness.
Joe Johnson
What? I didn't want this game. I had the game up there was just. And it flipped over. It just flipped on its own. They were Friday night. Yeah, it was. No, it was just. It was just up there because I was just. I was just about to hit the box score, and when I turned back, it was gone. Go to you Got to go to Saturday. Oh yeah. Y' all know what I'm doing. Here it is. It's coming up this janky ass machine. Use error this machine janky. Oh, here we go. Here we go, man. Joe, I don't know what's gotten into Aaron Gordon and how he's become such a great three point shooter, but he's become a different type of a player since he joined the Nuggets. He was their leading scorer last night. Nine of 16, five or 10 from three point line. He had 27. Nicola Jokic was yoked 24, 16 and 14. The problem that hurt him last night, Jamar Murray couldn't get it going. He was one of 14.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
Floor one of seven. I thought Cameron Johnson played really well. He's finally starting to show. Christian Brown played well. Tim Hardaway Jr. Played well. Bruce Brown played well. But I thought last night it was. Look, there's enough kudos to go around for the lakers. Luca a 30 point triple double now I think he has the what, the second most 30 point triple doubles in NBA history. And he's only seven, eight years into his career. Austin Reeves was sensational. Big shot after big shot to make the first free throw, missed the second, get it and put it back in. Yeah, but I thought the guy that played really, really well last night was Deandre Ayton. I love the way he battled. I love the effort that he displayed. The only one thing I would say
Liberty City Zone
o joke Joe, even though he only
Joe Johnson
had nine points on it was the hustle, it was the caring. Yeah. The attitude in which he displays da all I would say, bro, if you block the ball, get the rebound, don't let it hit the way because you could have just reached there and got the ball and we wouldn't even been overtime. But it went out of bounds. And then Jokic, he blocked joking shot. I thought he battled Yolk really, really well. And that's the effort and that's the consistency. No, Ocho, he didn't have double digit points, he didn't have double digit rebounds. He had nine and nine. But the effort was there. That's what the Lakers have been needing from him is effort. And he gave him that last night. You saw the old man, 41 years old, diving on the ball like, like Dennis Robbins. You want, you know the one when Dennis Robin is diving in the stand trying to save the ball.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah.
Chad Ochocinco
41 year old winning plays.
Joe Johnson
That's what you gotta have. So much for this theory of oh, he's stat pad and he just out there Blah, blah, blah. I've never seen him do that before. And I've been watching LeBron James from the very first time he stepped step foot in the NBA at Cleveland. I've never seen him dive. I've never seen that type of effort on a. To hit the floor now, blocking shots and chase downs, yes. But to hit the floor, like, hit the floor like that. And you know, when you get old, man. Now, he didn't feel it then because his adrenaline going. He felt. That is this morning. I guarantee you felt it this morning, guys.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
What you think? What you think? You think the Lakers can make some noise?
Chad Ochocinco
I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment. They look good, though. They look good. Look, here's my thing. Here's my thing. If Luca, obviously, Luca didn't shoot that great, but if he can, if he can play like this and Austin Reeves can. Can, obviously he's done this all year, can be consistent shooting at a high rate like that, and let Braun kind of just coast and be the. Be like a secret weapon almost. Uncle Ocho, don't put too much pressure on him. Where he gotta give you 30, you know, he gotta give you 36 and six, you know what I mean? Let him. If he could get you around 20 to 25 a night and six, six rebounds, five assists, I think he gonna be great in that role. But they gotta have other guys to step up. Like, you look at Marcus. Smart, he played great.
Joe Johnson
Unbelievable.
Chad Ochocinco
But the biggest key is. The biggest key is Jamal Murray. You see Garden, Luca, his offense gonna be his defense. Ocho, he got him in foul trouble, man. Fired out the game. You know what I mean? So you take away one of their key guys, you know, it benefits the Lakers, man, they played great basketball yesterday. I enjoyed watching them play.
Liberty City Zone
But see, this is the problem, though. Unc and Joe, you know, you say, you know, do we have anything to be excited about? You know, my grandma used to say, you know, when a team plays like this, you know, they call it fool's goal. Because what have they been before that game against the Nuggets? What have they struggled with? What has always been their Achilles heel, you know, to date, it's always been their defense or DeAndre Ayton, the inconsistencies in which they play with. Luca does what Luca does, DeAndre, Aiden here, we've been talking about him for the past goddamn who knows how goddamn long, and all of a sudden, finally he has a good game. Can he continue that? I mean. I mean, there's the problem, obviously. Reeve does what he needs to do, Luka does what he needs to do. As long as the supporting cast shows up and you get that kind of effort from DeAndre Aiden each and every night. I mean, there's a possibility.
Joe Johnson
I think the thing is, is that I love, I love what Aiden said the other night. He says, I brought my energy up to that of the team, is that the realization is the accountability to know that what he's been given not good enough. That's the first part. That's the first step. Like, oh, it ain't blah, blah, blah. He's like, yeah, hey, I brought my energy up to that of the team to acknowledge that to, to know oneself, that is the key. To know oneself. Look, we know it'll be hard for them to be if the Nuggets get all their pieces back. You know, Watson is still out, but they make it seem like Austin Reeves hadn't missed at least 20 games. LeBron had missed at least 20 games. Luca has missed some games. It's always everybody else. Well, this guy hadn't played and that guy hadn't played. So what about Luca? What about LeBron? What about Austin Reeves? Have they missed any time? Sure they have, yeah. In a situation like. But also, Joe just goes to shield. Tell me the time in the history of the game where one team has, where you said, you know what, we need our 38, 39, 40, 41, 37 year old guy to play great on a nightly basis in order for us to win a game. Tell me the time that's happened, Joe.
Chad Ochocinco
It hasn't. But you know, LeBron is a standard.
Joe Johnson
So. So by that standard, by what you saying, he might be. What I mean, he might have horns, stand on a burnt out bus and eat grass, then.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh, yeah, yeah, he goated, if that's what you're asking. Listen, listen, I'm saying he, he big goaded. Now, I ain't. Hey, I ain't taking nothing away from him. The boy, the boy. Hey, the boy got his own money. Hey, the boy bad. I ain't saying that. I'm just saying at 41, man, you don't want the. Why he gotta carry that? He ain't gotta carry that burden. I mean, he, he gonna give you some great night. Yes, but nice like this, where he can facilitate and just play off these other guys who kind of got it. Who got it going. I think his IQ for the game says it all, bro. He knows how to fit in.
Joe Johnson
Because if you put that kind of pressure on, if you say, well, LeBron James need to carry this team or he needs to do X, Y and Z at 41 and it doesn't happen. Now you get a chance to diminish it. You see what? You see how they do Ocho? You see how they do that?
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe Johnson
This is what we do. We put this unrealistic expectations on a 41 year old, which you've never done in the history of the game. 80 plus years of the NBA. No 41 year old, no 40 year old, no 39 year old has been asked to do what LeBron is asked to do. And if he doesn't do it now, we can diminish him. See, I told you he wanted to go. See, I told you he wasn't X, Y and Z, bro. He's not 25, he's not 30. He's not 35. He's 41 in year 23. And let's just say for the sake of argument, you just ask him. Okay, LeBron give us, give us what you're giving us. We know on a given night, you might bump that up to 28, 32, you might be able to give us 10 rebounds, you might be able to give Us 10 assists and seven rebounds.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Johnson
But to ask him to be what he was in Cleveland the second time around, to ask him what he was for the Lakers in his first up until three years ago, I think you're asking a bit much, man. I think it's unrealistic. But can he give you what he's giving you? I mean, he only shot about 13 times last night. 13 times.
Chad Ochocinco
Very, very efficient. 7, 13.
Joe Johnson
And he missed. He smoked two layups and got blocked at the rib with Gordon. So really, truly, Joe, he probably should had 24 points.
Chad Ochocinco
I agree, I agree.
Joe Johnson
I mean, he just flat out smoked them. Yeah, but Austin Reeds, man. Hey, look, Kobe or the Ozarks, 12, 21, three or eight big three. And he came down, hit a big three when the game seemed like it was slipping away. He made the file shots and then he made the play. I, I love him. He, he has, he's an IQ ball player. I loved it from the very first time. And the mere fact that LeBron took a liking to him. LeBron take a liking of guys that have basketball IQ because he understands that they understand how to play the game the right way. Austin understands there's some deficiency. Every player, every player, no matter what era, no matter who they are, had deficiencies in some areas, aspects of their game. But yeah, when he and Luca, look, the likelihood of Luca being efficient. And now if he's efficient, he probably gonna give you 50 because he's gonna take a lot of shots. I mean, he's 4, 14, he's 10 or 10 or 26. They're gonna have to get better at the free throw line, though, at the
Chad Ochocinco
rate these boys been scoring the ball and Ojo. Yeah, 50 just kind of sound light, you know what I mean? Like for him. Yeah, I'm saying, like, they score at such a high rate. They, you know, the game. The game is so much faster nowadays that when you see guys like Luca hitting 40s and 50s, it's just a normal day.
Liberty City Zone
Right.
Chad Ochocinco
You know what I mean? But to kind of piggyback off what you said, AR Austin reaves undrafted and giving you this type of production, this tells you, you know, obviously the confidence that LeBron has instilled in him, you know, I think it has catapulted him and put him on another level because he plays with that sense of urgency, that type of confidence, he just be oozing out of him, you know what I mean? When he out there on the court, you can see it in the way he handled the rock, the way he get to his spots. Like, bro, it's impressive to watch, man. It's impressive to watch.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, hey, Uncle Joe.
Chad Ochocinco
I don't.
Liberty City Zone
I'm not sure where Austin Reeds works out in off season, but whatever he's done from the time he got drafted to the point where he is now, everybody need to go whatever train it is. So everyone should. Everyone should be able. Listen Ben Simmons, you hear me? I'm just saying, obviously he's not playing right now, but that's. This is what you. I mean, obviously, I don't mean to be switching topics, but wherever Austin Reeves goes, players like Ben Simmons and other players that haven't improved, they haven't evolved
Joe Johnson
year to year to year.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Liberty City Zone
Also Reeves to do what he's done from how he looked when he wasn't drafted to where he is right now, to what. What are you getting this offseason?
Joe Johnson
Probably two, five years.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, that's nasty. Oh, that's nasty. Work that way
Joe Johnson
is that Austin Reeves wanted to. To be great. His desire to be great was his desire not greater than his desire not to be the work that you put in. It's the nice to see people see what he did last night. People see what LeBron and people see what Luke and people see what Shay and all these other great players. I see what you do on the big stage. How did you get to the big stage. What do you do leading up to the big stage? See, they saw what you did on Sundays. See, they saw the celebrations, but they didn't see the off season. They didn't see the meetings, they didn't see the practice. You see, everybody just talks about the finished product. How do they make that? You look at the pyramids of Egypt, Ocho, you're like, damn, that is something to marvel at. How the hell do people make that?
Liberty City Zone
Hey, no cranes, no nothing.
Joe Johnson
Stars of Babylon. Of Babylon.
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Joe Johnson
The Sphinx.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, I. I don't know.
Joe Johnson
So when I look at Austin Reeds, that's what I said. Hard work does not guarantee you anything. But without it, you don't have a chance. That is the, that's the thing. Austin Reeves put the time in. You know how I know an undrafted frigid that if he doesn't get hurt, he's an all star now he's about to get a max contract. 240. That's how you know. And you saw him get better and better. You watched him as an undrafted rookie, you watched him as a second year, you watched him at the third year. And you remember that, that series against Memphis, LeBron said, yeah, you do you, you take it. You take it.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
And what did he do?
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
On the road in Memphis. He did that.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah,
Joe Johnson
man.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, look, the. The postseason is gonna be. It's gonna be about matchups.
Joe Johnson
Absolutely. It's gonna. They.
Chad Ochocinco
They need a favorable match.
Joe Johnson
They need somebody slow.
Chad Ochocinco
They need a favor. They don't need Minnesota. I know that. Don't run into Minnesota.
Joe Johnson
Luca. Last three, last five ball games. 30, 11 and 13 against the Nuggets. 51 9, 5110 and 9 against Chicago. Against Minnesota. 311111 against the Knicks. 358 and 4 against Indiana. 44, 9.
Chad Ochocinco
You've been putting them numbers up. He been doing. Hey, they've been playing basketball as a late too. Like you know, they steady climbing the charts. They probably gonna finish right there and probably that, what, third or fourth right now they're.
Joe Johnson
Right now they're in the third slot. They're one game ahead of Houston, but they got two games with Houston. They play Houston tomorrow and then he got them again on Wednesday and then they got a back to back Thursday against Miami. So they gotta. They got a tough. They got a tough east coast trip coming up.
Liberty City Zone
Hold on. Hey, they play.
Joe Johnson
They.
Liberty City Zone
The Lakers play the Heat down here Miami on Thursday.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh yeah. Braun coming to show out. He coming out of my. He coming back to South Beach. He Coming to show out.
Liberty City Zone
I wonder how my wonder mama's court side. Let me call Pat, man, see if he give me a seat, man. Down there, man. On the wood, man.
Joe Johnson
Players record when they score 50 plus points in the ball game. Michael Jordan is 23 and 8. LeBron James is 12 and 2. James Harden is 18 and 7. Steph Curry is 10 and 5. KD is 5 and 4. Luca is the only player that scores at least has scored 50 points. He's undefeated. He's 8. 0.
Chad Ochocinco
Damn. Them numbers don't lie, do they, man?
Liberty City Zone
No,
Joe Johnson
because sometimes. Sometimes, Joe, we've seen guys get 50 in the losing effort or the 50.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
All 50s are not created equal. All 40s, all 30s. All points aren't created equal. How you got those at what point in the game? Because you could be behind 30 points, man. That joker had 50, right? But it lost by 22. What the hell I would do? What the hell I would do with that? I need your 30, your 40, your 50 to go towards winning or at least make it a close ball game. Understanding you're not going to win every ball game, but sometimes guys get numbers. And that Joker had 50. He had this, bro. At what point in time did you think, you know what, they could win this game? Well, I know they weren't gonna win. So what we talking about? What are we talking about? But here we are. The lakers are the third seed. Joe, we got the thing up. Oklahoma's OKC is number one. They're three and a half games head of the spurs at 49 and 18. And then you got the Lakers, you see Lakers sitting right there. They're half a game in front of the Rockets, a full a game and a half in front of the Nuggets. Game and a half in front of the T Wolves.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, hey. The question is, if you. The Lakers, like, damn. In the second round, if you so happen to get out the first round, do you want to play San Antonio in the second round or would it be second round? They would be playing San Antonio.
Joe Johnson
San Antonio will be at the bottom. So it would go one. It would go one eight. So it'll be the winner. One will play. Okay, the seven, eight matchup in the first and then nine, ten for the right to play the loser of the seven eight matchup. So that would be. That would be in the bottom half.
Chad Ochocinco
But see, look, you see, you see how it's three, six. So Lakers right now will be playing the Timberwolves. I don't like that.
Liberty City Zone
You don't like that. You don't like a seven game series.
Joe Johnson
Wolves?
Chad Ochocinco
Lakers? No, not for the Lakers. Yeah, I'd rather play the Nuggets.
Joe Johnson
Hell no.
Chad Ochocinco
They can't do nothing without their youth and speed that they got. Man, they got a chance. They got a fighting chance.
Joe Johnson
They ain't got no fighting chance if I'm bad.
Chad Ochocinco
If I'm a betting man, Ocho, I don't want to see. I don't want Minnesota, bro.
Liberty City Zone
Hold on. So you think, you think the better option is playing the Nuggets, Joe?
Chad Ochocinco
Hell yeah, I do.
Joe Johnson
So, yeah, I mean, think about it. It took overtime and Jamal Murray had five points. It took over for him to beat him at home and Jamal Murray had five. Hey, don't remember the two minute report say they missed a call. So we think about all the things that had to go right just for us to win by two in overtime.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh, they got swept last year, Uncle
Joe Johnson
O. Yeah, but they're. I think, I think they're a much better team this year. I do.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, they. They probably are better. They probably learned from the mistakes, but they got swept last year. I ain't expecting them to beat them. You know what I mean?
Joe Johnson
What?
Chad Ochocinco
They might, they might win a game this year, but. Nah.
Joe Johnson
But I think Marcus Smart definitely helps. I think Austin Reeves.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh, yeah, he does.
Joe Johnson
I think Lucas is healthier this year than he was last year.
Chad Ochocinco
It's gonna get tight in the postseason, fellas. They gonna wear him down. They're gonna have to wear him down.
Joe Johnson
But guess what? Most people ain't got a third option that scored over 43,5000 points. Right?
Chad Ochocinco
Right.
Joe Johnson
It got right 11, 000 rebounds, 11, 000 assists.
Chad Ochocinco
You're right.
Joe Johnson
I just say, look, once you get to the second round, really, once you're in the postseason, ain't no really easy matchups. When you get to the second round, it damn sure ain't no easy matchup. Because you getting OKC or you getting. Or you getting a. A San Antonio.
Chad Ochocinco
San Antonio.
Joe Johnson
The rating the back consecutive MVP. Or you getting this 75 alien. You getting one of them. And they really got you. They come at you and Wade with champagne and they got Harper and they got Bright and they got a castle. They got.
Chad Ochocinco
That's why. Hey, that's why I say I like the Lakers. But I. I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment because that gauntlet in the west of color, they gonna beat each other up so bad. That's what I'm saying. Whoever come out of the east got a real fighting chance.
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Joe Johnson
Kendra Perkins compares SGA to Michael Jackson. He's the Michael Jackson of basketball. He's an artist and every album he puts out, every year goes diamond. I've never seen a guard this efficient in my entire life.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh. He meant. He meant basketball. Wise skill and oh, okay. Efficiency. Okay, okay. I I get what he's saying.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, he's. He's probably from a guard standpoint, shooting at about 52, 53 from the field. Uncle Ocho. Yeah, that don't happen. I only think nobody then outside of guards, probably M.J. mike. Yeah. The only one that done it. Yeah, he probably would have done it.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, hey, Uncle Joe, you know, you know why he is like that?
Chad Ochocinco
Why is that?
Liberty City Zone
No, I, I listen, I, I listen. My, my basketball prowess is nothing like YouTube. But his shot selection is so important. Yeah, his shot selection is so important, which is why he's so goddamn efficient.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah. You can't stop him from getting to his spot.
Joe Johnson
I think the thing is, here's the problem. Michael Jordan was the closest thing to Michael Jackson because everything that he did was diamond. And he was the most popular. You see, Michael Jackson made hit album, but he was the most popular artist at the time. He still. There'll never be another mj. There will never be another mj. Never. All you got to do is just go back and watch when people, they got shows out here in Vegas where they're doing Michael Jackson. They're having documentaries about Michael Jackson. People would pass out just to hear just. It was almost biblical where they just wanted to touch the hem of his garment. They wanted to see him enjoying that faint. He come back.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
Think about when he came, walked out there on that, that hotel balcony and. Yeah, and he had, I think it was blankie at the time. And people lost their. People started crying. People would literally pass just to see this man.
Liberty City Zone
We're never with a uncle.
Joe Johnson
Never. Yeah, never ever, ever. Because we watched him with the Jackson 5 as a 7, 8 year old and come up and watched him. So we took a liking to him from Jackson fives in the early 70s. And then you watch him do off the wall in 89. And then you watch him do a, A Thriller. And then you watch him really dangerous. And you watch.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
I mean, bad was the. With the third, I think third, Third solo album Dangerous. I think what makes Dangerous was his fourth. I think. Go ahead.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey. I think what makes it, what makes it different is that we only seen them on tv.
Joe Johnson
Yes.
Chad Ochocinco
You know, now we can see all the stars in our handheld device.
Liberty City Zone
Everybody's accessible. Yeah, but you.
Joe Johnson
He couldn't go nowhere. He couldn't go nowhere back then with no social media, where can he go? Ocho and Joe now, Where could Michael Jackson go? He couldn't go Nowhere in the 80s, in the 90s, he damn sure not going anywhere now.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, that's why he had never, Never landed.
Liberty City Zone
He had everything right there.
Joe Johnson
He had two. I mean, think about him. He grew. He grew up before our eyes as a kid, and then he became the biggest. He's the King of Pop.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
Nobody. They're not gonna. First of all, the music game has changed. You got Spotify, you got all these streaming. So nobody's gonna sell the hard copies. Nobody's gonna sell. Forget Michael. Nobody's gonna sell the hard copies like they once sold way back when, when, when 10 and twin and. And 15 million albums that. I mean, think about that. A diamond. That's 10 million copies. That's 10 million hard copies. Yeah.
Liberty City Zone
I mean, it's. It's almost disrespectful. I mean, the comparison. You really can't compare anybody to Michael. No, you just can't. You can't. Regardless of John, I mean, regardless of genre, you know, you just can't. Michael is, is in a class of his own when it comes to what he was able to do.
Joe Johnson
But I, I. Look what Shea has been able to do and how he does it. And just like you said, Joe, the percentage in which he shoots, because he still gets up like three to four. Three, five threes a game. So it's not like he's just shooting all layups and, and, and, and, and, and midis. I mean, think about it. He hit back to back threes. That ended up winning them the game.
Chad Ochocinco
Man, listen, let me tell y' all something. When I watch this dude play speaking to Shea, okay, Ocho. The confidence that he plays with, like, he knows. Listen, let me tell y' all something. He knows can. It's not one person who can stand in front of him. You know what I mean? He can get to whatever he want to when he want to. You know, he out there facilitating, making sure he keep guys involved. Check. Has been playing great, but he's still been at the MVP level to where it's time to close out games. When it's time to get us off to great starts. I'm gonna start this thing up. Y' all just follow my lead. And he's just been. He's been. He's just been a fun guy to watch, man. You know, especially guys who love isolation basketball. ISO ball is what we call, like, man, when you got a dude who, who knows that at any given moment, I can take over this game and put my stamp on it.
Joe Johnson
Yeah, it's tough.
Chad Ochocinco
That's what he played like.
Joe Johnson
Do not. Like you said, Joe, it's only been a handful of guys that at the guard position to shoot that kind of percentage. I think Steph shot it maybe for the year that Steph was a unanimous MVP. I think he was a 50, 40, 90 guy. I think Jordan had some 50 points. But for the most part, guard don't, aren't that efficient. If a guard shoots 47, 48, you like. Oh my goodness. You talking about a guard shooting 50, 51, 52, 53%.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
Oh my goodness. You at his mercy. You can't do anything with that. And like you said, Ocho, you can't speed him up. He gonna get quality shots. Every shot he takes is a good shot. He got you afraid, he got you playing on your heels because you think you about to block his shot. He doesn't go up, you jump now he jumps, he jumps into you. Now it's a foul. He's watching the ball go in the hoop, man. He's, he's, he's, he gonna win the MVP again, guys. He gonna win it again. Yeah, they go and it's not unfortunate. I, I take that back. He's gonna win it and deservingly so you go with MVP guys, they're gonna have a, probably the best record. And he's the bas. Me, I like Jokic. I, I, I've been on record, I've liked Jokic.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
Day two. But she ain't gonna win the mvp.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh yeah, I got them winning it again, Uncle Ocho.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
The only team, the only team I can see beating them spurs, spurs or the Celtics, I don't see nobody else beating them. You see anybody else beating them, Joe?
Chad Ochocinco
Now the spurs kind of got their number, but I just feel like the experience that they have, you know, when it comes to postseason, I feel like they'll edge them out. Boston, I think that'll be a, that'll be a great series on K Ocho. I would love to see that. You know, obviously I think by that time, if Boston able to make it that far, Tatum being ref for him, they got a chance, man. It's the chance to be a great series.
Joe Johnson
Yeah, but it's, it. Look, I think we, we kind of, you know, you, we, we throw a lot of things around. And I think the thing is that a lot of times Ocho and Joe, when we talk about things of the past, it's not like I'm not, I'm not, I'm, I'm not oblivious to what's going on in the present. I know who Taylor Swift is and I know the numbers. She does. I know Who Beyonce is. And I know the number she does. I know Bad Bunny and. And. And the Weeknd and Drake, but can you imagine if Micah had social media?
Chad Ochocinco
Oh,
Joe Johnson
I mean, think about how many. Think about how many million people watched his halftime show when it wasn't even have that many people in the world. We probably increased 2 billion people in the world. Like I said. Look, just. I want y' all chat. Do me a favor. Go Google Michael Jackson and then you get an opportunity to see when he's in. In Wimbley and he's seeing in people passing out. People don't paid all this money and all they do is they wake up in the doctor, shine the light in the eye. Cause they done passed out.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, yeah.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, Uncle Joe, I forgot what concert it was. Well, Mike came on stage and stood there for five minutes and didn't say nothing.
Joe Johnson
That was a halftime show.
Liberty City Zone
Screaming and crying.
Joe Johnson
That.
Liberty City Zone
No, it was.
Joe Johnson
That was at the. The Super Bowl. You know, if I'm not mistaken, that was at the super bowl in Pasadena.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, hey, Joe. He stood there for about five minutes, man.
Joe Johnson
They were going.
Liberty City Zone
They were going. They ain't say nothing. They fainting all in the crowd and crying. I'm like.
Chad Ochocinco
But my goodness, that man had real fans, bro.
Joe Johnson
Oh, my God.
Chad Ochocinco
Like breaking down when they see you.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, yeah, that.
Chad Ochocinco
That's a different type of fame. I won't. I won't come across no type of fame like that.
Joe Johnson
To be like Jordan and to be like people where you can't go do anything without security. You can't go to the. You can't go out to eat with your family. You got to take the damn near to take the whole damn movie theater down. You got to buy the damn restaurant. I mean, you gotta. Oh, you take the kids to Disney. You gotta rent out Disney for the day.
Liberty City Zone
Oh, you go take the kids, they
Joe Johnson
close the zoo down for you for the whole damn day.
Chad Ochocinco
Right? Hey, hey. They treat you like the president.
Joe Johnson
You can't do nothing. Yeah.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, I don't. I don't like that kind of. I don't like that kind of. Got that kind of thing. Joe, I'm too sociable, man. I'd be trying to talk to every goddamn body, say, what's up?
Joe Johnson
Yeah, Super Bowl. He stood motionless for 90 seconds to two minutes before performing.
Liberty City Zone
They were going crazy.
Joe Johnson
I mean. I mean, you can't do nothing. You can't go nowhere with your kids. You can't do nothing with your kids, basically. I mean, you try. I mean, where you gonna go? You you gotta have a. A 10 person security team, right?
Chad Ochocinco
And guess what?
Joe Johnson
You got to go scout the area before you even come.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, that's too much. That's too much.
Joe Johnson
I mean, it's. It's not. Look, we. We're very fortunate that we can go where we pretty much want to go and relatively ease, but I don't have to send somebody if I'm going to California or Florida to scout where I'm standing. You gotta rent the whole damn floor.
Chad Ochocinco
Right? Right. Hey, that's a different type of fame.
Joe Johnson
I mean, like Mike.
Liberty City Zone
I don't like that.
Joe Johnson
Mike. What? Mike Jordan. What? Mike going what? Beyonce. Where is LeBron? Where is LeBron going? Hey, the kid. Hey. Hey, we're gonna take the kids to Dave and Buster. No, you're not. Oh, Joe. Hey. Oh, Joe. You want to take the kids bowling? Hey. Hey, dad, let's go bowling. Okay, let's go. Yeah. You can't.
Liberty City Zone
You can't do normal stuff.
Chad Ochocinco
And you.
Joe Johnson
Sometimes I like reality. Yeah, that is. That is your reality. Your reality is this. A full security detail, maid service. Everybody you got got headsets in their ears walking around. You got. I mean, you got 24 hour security. That's your reality now.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, I can't do it,
Joe Johnson
But. SGA gonna win the MVP again. Darius A. Cup Jr. Scored 30 points and handed out 11 assists, leading Arkansas past Vanderbilt 86 75, Arkansas's first SEC tournament crown since 2000. With the win, Calipar became the first SEC coach, okay, in history to win the tournament titles at two different programs. He won six at Kentucky. Excuse me, the last in 2018, including the 2017 title over Arkansas. Calipari now has 16 combined conference turner titles and career stance at UMass in the A10, Memphis and Conference USA and Kentucky and Arkansas in the SEC. Ocho, what did you like? About what? Joe, let's go to you. This is your squad. What did you like about what you saw from your team, man?
Chad Ochocinco
Okay, Ocho, first off, they hadn't won the SEC championship since 2000. And guess who was on that team?
Joe Johnson
Who's on that team? Who that?
Liberty City Zone
Joe. Joe, you was on now.
Chad Ochocinco
Ta da. Hey, listen, let me tell you something. Let me tell y' all something. 2000, bro. We was like 16 and 14 going to the SEC tournament. That was my freshman year of school. We wasn't gonna make the NCAA tournament unless we won the. The SEC tournament. Right? Man, the gauntlet. We had to go through four days to win four games against elite talent. Georgia, who was it was played here in Atlanta, Georgia Dome. So that was a home game for them. Then Kentucky, LSU and Auburn. Like, that was a hard feat. This is kudos to Coach Kyle, man, and his coaching staff. You know, Chin and Kenny Payne, those dudes, man, keeping those guys ready and developing those dudes. Because we've gotten better as the season has progressed. And right now, uncle and Ocho, them Razorbacks, we probably. We playing the best ball. This is the best time to be, you know, peaking, you know, going into the tournament. So I'm proud of those guys, man. That's what's up. Home team, them dudes. Coach Cal, look, when Coach Kyle got the job, I went to his presser because I knew he was gonna bring talent. Yeah, we got the s. We got. We got two fresh. We got the SEC Freshman of the Year. The SEC Player of the Year. He's a freshman, bro. Like, we. He's gonna get the talent now. We just gotta, you know, hope these boys can keep it going.
Joe Johnson
But they look great, man.
Chad Ochocinco
They look great. Congratulations.
Joe Johnson
Yeah. Billy Richmond, yesterday was the guy. He had a successional game.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
And then today, a cub says, hold on. Y' all must have forgot. I'm still him.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah. Yeah. Them boys balling, man.
Joe Johnson
We got.
Chad Ochocinco
We got quite a few guys. Uncle Ocho, Trevor. Brazil.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, Brazil.
Chad Ochocinco
Brazil been playing great, obviously. Malik Thomas, these young dudes.
Joe Johnson
Who. DJ Wagner.
Liberty City Zone
Wagner, yeah, yeah.
Chad Ochocinco
DJ Wagner, who's been around. Who's been around the block. He knows and understand. We gotta. We got a solid squad, bro. We got a solid squad.
Joe Johnson
He. They shot. You guys shot 15 or 24 from the three.
Chad Ochocinco
Joe, they shooting that thing, huh?
Joe Johnson
We.
Chad Ochocinco
I'm talking about. We got some guys who can fill it up, though. Like, them boys getting it done, man. You know, in the NCAA tournament. Arkin, Ocho, you. If you got great guard play, you got a great chance to go far. Yes, you got a great chance to go far. And we got two elite guards, man, who I think can obviously, you know, lead us in. In. In the right direction. So I'm looking forward to seeing these guys.
Joe Johnson
That's how UConn wanted back to back because what did it have? Great guard play. You look at Villanova when they run, what did they have? Guard play. You look at the Tar Heels when they won, what did they have? Guard play. You're absolutely right, Joe. The bigs, it's nice to have a big. But if you got great guard play.
Chad Ochocinco
I'm talking about game changing guards. Like.
Joe Johnson
Yes.
Chad Ochocinco
You seen that run Kimball went on when he was with Connecticut? Like, how him and Lucia, Bass, Naper and all them little dudes changed the game. You gotta have guards who can really take over Ocho. And we got that, bro.
Joe Johnson
Y' all do y'.
Chad Ochocinco
All.
Joe Johnson
I can't complain. I can't. I can't say nothing, Joe. I can't say nothing. Yeah.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, he liked that. He liked that.
Joe Johnson
Yeah. I mean, y' all shot 52 from the floor, 63 from the three point line. You shoot 63 for the three point line, you're gonna win a lot of games.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, that was. You know, that's. That's back to.
Joe Johnson
Back to back.
Chad Ochocinco
That's three games in three days, fellas. You know, with minimum risk.
Joe Johnson
Look, you know, the one thing about California, you know, Cal been on the Midil deals and now he got. Now he got that Tyson money and that Walmart money down there at Arkansas Joe.
Chad Ochocinco
And that Tyson Chicken, that Tyson Chicken
Joe Johnson
farm and that Walmart, buddy.
Chad Ochocinco
That is not a bad place to start when it's legally nil money now. But that's the best place you can start, actually. You know, they filthy up there, bro. They take. They take care of them. They taking care of them boys.
Joe Johnson
And this is what you get.
Chad Ochocinco
You get great product.
Joe Johnson
Look, probably Texas. If I'm looking at somewhere, I'm probably football loacho. My first job, I'm looking at Texas. University of Texas. Got money. SMU. Hold on. Didn't somebody just give SMU like 60 million, like three families? I think three or four families just gave them like $60 million. Look that up, Ash.
Chad Ochocinco
Oh, yeah,
Joe Johnson
Man.
Chad Ochocinco
Hey, hey, hey. We might have to take a trip up there and holl at the wall. The Walmart's and the Tysons, man. The. The Fayetteville where I went to college at Ocho.
Liberty City Zone
You know him personally?
Chad Ochocinco
Come on, man, stop playing. What did you talk about?
Joe Johnson
$50 million Oo to recruit and retain players at SMU.
Chad Ochocinco
Damn.
Joe Johnson
That's that Highland park money. That's that real money?
Liberty City Zone
Yes.
Joe Johnson
You think. You think Texas and you think. A m got it. You got it. They got it. Got it.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah.
Joe Johnson
What?
Liberty City Zone
Hey, Joe, tell me more. Tell me more about these Mr. Tyson.
Joe Johnson
And, man, you eat Titan chicken when you go to the store. You see T, Y, S, O, N. That's them.
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, they in Arkansas when you go to Walmart.
Joe Johnson
Sam's club, the Walton. That's them.
Liberty City Zone
Okay, okay. Hey, Joe. Get him on the line, Joe, so I can holla at him.
Chad Ochocinco
Bet. Say less, baby. What you got? You got some plans?
Liberty City Zone
Yeah, you know I ain't got plans. All you gotta do is get me in the room, Joe.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, all right. Bet.
Liberty City Zone
Say later. Hey, Joe. One thing about it, boy. I may play a fool, but I know how to work a room like no other.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, we might have to do it like a little event or something up there.
Liberty City Zone
Okay.
Chad Ochocinco
Yeah, okay.
Liberty City Zone
Hey, that's fine with me.
Chad Ochocinco
All right.
Liberty City Zone
All right.
Joe Johnson
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Episode Date: March 16, 2026
Hosts: Shannon Sharpe (“Unc”), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, Joe Johnson (“ISO Joe”)
This Nightcap episode dives into a packed slate of headlines:
Across 65+ minutes, the crew combines deep sports insight, player perspective, and signature comedic banter, making this a must-listen for passionate fans.
[08:27 – 17:23]
Celebration of Historic Win:
Panel Thoughts:
On Award Politics & Past Greats:
Community Impact:
[21:04 – 45:55]
Game Recap:
Replay, Reviews & Challenge System:
Player Performances & Lakers’ Outlook:
Western Conference Playoff Matchups:
[50:33 – 62:33]
Perkins’ Viral Quote:
On SGA’s Unique Style:
MJ, Michael Jackson, & Superstar Obsession:
SGA for MVP, Team Threats:
[62:33 – 67:41]
Celebrating the Razorbacks:
Building a Champion:
True to Nightcap form, the hour is fiery, funny, and full of sharp analysis. From celebrating Black excellence in Hollywood to breaking down NBA matchups and elevating college hoops, Shannon, Ochocinco, and Joe Johnson blend fandom and former-player reality with charisma and candor.
For fans needing instant takes, depth, and a hearty laugh, this episode delivers.