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Donald
Why do we try so hard? So I can breathe.
Ocho
Why do you need to breathe?
Donald
So I can think. If I can breathe if I can breathe, I can think. If I can think if I can think if I can think, then I can win Rated r in theaters April
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Ocho
Ron spoke on the Grizzly saying staying at the effing Hyatt at 41 years old. You think I want to do that? Ish. Being in Memphis on a random ass Thursday. I'm not the first guy to talk about it in the NBA. You guys have to move, go to Nashville. You got Vanderbilt, NASCAR, a stadium, a hockey team. Joe. Now everybody criticized LeBron, but KD has said this, has said that it's not great. Ant man has said it, everybody has said it. Like LeBron said, I'm not the first to say it, but somehow you know.
Joe
Yeah, you already know when, when they hear from him. It weighs, it weighs a little different, but it could be some truth in that. They, they, I mean, five star hotel. I don't think that they have that in Memphis and. But they do have a, you know. You know, the funny part is though, Ocho, they got a pretty good fan base though.
Ocho
Yeah, for sure.
Uncle Joe
Yeah.
Joe
Yeah.
Uncle Joe
Hey, hold on. What you mean they ain't got no five star hotel in Memphis? Maybe they don't have a five star hotel in Memphis that close enough to the stadium that the player can get to and from the game.
Joe
I'm sure now they got, they got a nice hotel, the West.
Ocho
I don't think it's five star.
Joe
The Weston is right there across the street from the arena. Oo, that's pretty much where the team stay at, but.
Ocho
Yeah, but normally, Joe, a lot of times, like when they come to la, they stayed at the Montage. They stayed at the Beverly Wilshire.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Or they stayed, they stayed at the, the fourth season or they stayed at the Ritz.
Joe
Yeah, that's.
Ocho
No, and that's that and that, that's not downtown. That's in Beverly Hills.
Joe
Right, right, right. Take forever to get to the game.
Ocho
It sure, it sure does. That's cool. That's where I live, but I know well, how, how long it take me.
Joe
Well, that's. Hey, that's a thing.
Ocho
Y' all get police escorts to the game.
Joe
Nah, nah, wait, you ain't get, you
Uncle Joe
don't get no escort.
Joe
I won't get no police escort, man. You got the bus leaving at a certain time. You, you figure out which one you gonna be on. First bus leave at a time.
Uncle Joe
No, I'm saying going, bro.
Joe
We might, yeah, we might get an escort. We might get an escort going to the airport.
Ocho
Oh, we get to and from the airport. And to and from.
Uncle Joe
Yeah, to in from the airport. Hey, everybody got to move everything out the way. Traffic stopping.
Joe
It's a bunch of y', all though.
Uncle Joe
Yeah. Eight.
Donald
Eight.
Joe
We ain't got but two buses. That's it.
Uncle Joe
Motorcycle cops be working.
Joe
Yeah. Hey, y' all probably got about 10 buses.
Ocho
No, we got probably like four.
Joe
Yeah, yeah. We ain't got but two, man. You get to. You catch this first and second one, we out.
Ocho
Yeah. And at college, we had. We had two buses. Yeah, we had two buses because we had the starters on one bus. At first, it used to be offense on one bus, defense on the other bus. Then we started, right? Offensive starters and defensive starters on one bus, and then the. The backups on another. Offensive defense on another bus.
Joe
Hold on. Yeah.
Ocho
You know, we said, I'm at the back. You know, I'm at the back of the bus. I got seniority. Couldn't wait to the buffer class. Believe I'm gonna be the top dog. I'm back there by the bathroom. Yeah, you gotta do one or two, man. I gotta do one, do two. You stand there the whole trip. You might stand there hour, two hours, three hours. But you're not gonna go stack it up there. Cause we back there with an engine at. Joe.
Joe
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ocho
What you got to do? I'm asking you one or two. Because if you do two, you gonna stay in there and smell it. Just the whole trip, man. Come on. No. Nope. You ain't coming out. And guess what? We leave. I leave their ass in there for two, three hours.
Uncle Joe
Them bus trips used to be fun, man. There was some good times, bro.
Joe
Hey, hey, when using. When y' all was in college, y' all flew to y' all game.
Ocho
We took the bus everywhere, Joe.
Joe
Yeah, man, listen.
Ocho
Yeah. From Savannah we went. I mean, the farther. I mean, we go. I'm trying to think the father. We probably go for probably five hours on the bus.
Joe
Damn.
Uncle Joe
That's the first. That's the first you had to go,
Joe
man, we used to take these.
Ocho
Look, these. Look. Them. Look.
Joe
Crop duster planes I'm talking about only fit like six or seven people on. We take like four, five of them. I ain't lying. When I was in college, that's how we used to travel. Scariest day of my life, I'm talking about, boy. Hey, them little planes be dropping so hard. Don't let it be no bad weather, too.
Ocho
Oh, yeah.
Joe
Oh, man.
Ocho
Baby. But I'm like, bro, first of all, have you ever. Oh, Joe, you rode the bus. Cause you say you rode the bus to. From. From Miami to where? Langston?
Joe
Yeah, like Greyhound.
Ocho
You drove?
Uncle Joe
Nah.
Donald
You flew.
Uncle Joe
Yeah, Grandma.
Ocho
Grandma put me on the plane.
Uncle Joe
Yeah, Grandma had money. My granddaddy had Money? I ain't had no money, man.
Ocho
Look here, y' all know, like, you riding the buses. I mean, people be coming back because I rode the bus to go see my brother. And on spring break, South Carolina, I would catch the bus from Claxton. So the bus, the bus, Greyhound would leave Claxton and it go to Meadow, it's go to Statesburg Meadow. It'd just stop off at places and pick people up and.
Uncle Joe
Right.
Ocho
I mean, it's a two and a half hour drive. If you drove in a car, just drove straight, it's gonna take you about six hours by the bus. Half hours. Because they stopping everywhere. They stopping at a joker house. Dude come with his suitcase. Dude come with his suitcase. Coming up, coming out of the dirt. Dirt road.
Donald
I'm like, well, damn,
Ocho
you know, I don't know if you ever been in. In a. A bus station, but, boy, some CD characters in there. Yeah, I know.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Yeah, man, they tried to sell you something. Somebody tried to steal something from you. It's a lot of bull job going on. So you got, you know, and, you know, I remember. Hey, don't go to sleep on the bus, okay? Hey. Cause I. I had. I got. Soon as the bus move, I ain't got. I ain't like, man, hey, you. Soon. You close the door, you think the door closed. That Jordan head hit the window. He sleep. But going to the bathroom, I thought that was disrespectful. Oo. You knew you had to go to the bathroom. You should have used the bathroom before you left the door, right?
Uncle Joe
Yeah, especially back then. Joe, them buses, once you open the
Joe
door, I've been on there.
Uncle Joe
Yeah. Since comes out. So you. You want to make sure. Listen, you. You do do number two before we get on.
Joe
Thank you.
Uncle Joe
Because you ain't doing it while we. Because every time that door opens, boy, that smells.
Joe
Hey, I've been there. Look, we rode that Greyhound while playing AAU from. From Arkansas all the way to Cocoa Beach, Florida. And what.
Ocho
What?
Joe
Arkansas to Cocoa Beach, Florida. Oh, Ojo. One of the pants stuck up the bathroom. Boy, I'm talking about worst thing. Oh, man, he had.
Uncle Joe
Hey, it was bad. It was bad, huh?
Joe
It was bad.
Ocho
Hey, like, as a matter of fact, somebody was asking my. My homeboy because I was telling the story you guys the other night about we're doing the Oklahoma drill and how I ran over to DB So a dude was listening.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Like, he asked Bucky, he said, man, sharp say he trucked somebody. Who is that? He didn't say no. Name, he said. So he told him the name. He said what happened was boom, boom, boom. He said the DB slip and say shark caught him with a knee and just pile dried it.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
And then boom. He said, man, he said that. He said the guy slipped.
Donald
He why are we trying so hard? So I can breathe.
Ocho
Why do you need to breathe?
Donald
So I can think. If I can breathe. If I can breathe, I can think. I can think. If I can think. If I can think, then I can win.
Ocho
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Ocho
and y' all started jumping.
Donald
Yeah.
Ocho
Ask them guys that was hey you a starter in 88 and 89. Ask them who's at the back of the bus cause we play spades back there. Ask them what happened if you use the bait. You went number two in that bathroom, would you come out? No sir. They tell hey coach, man Sharp had us locked in the bathroom. Coach. They were like goddamn home. That made you know somebody. They might get sick cause you know them fumes back there, they should have thought about that before they took their ass in there. I might get sick so I already
Joe
know what you're talking about boy. Hey, I'm telling you I understand the
Ocho
pageantry and I think everybody should have at least go one quarter or one semester.
Uncle Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
To an HBCU to see homecoming, to see the pageantry, to see the student center. How it be buzzing doing homecoming? Just you know the step shows and everybody. Cuz we had a yard so we had like where the capital would be at. They had their own little park and the the Sigmas and the Deltas and akas. Everybody had their own little park and they'd be out there doing their thing so to experience that, man, ain't nothing like it. Nothing like it like it ain't nothing like it, man. The step shows. Cause, you know, they have the step shows. I don't know if y' all had it, so.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
So step show.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Fort Valley and this one and that. They come in to do the competition.
Joe
Yeah. Yeah,
Ocho
man.
Joe
They used to be lit.
Ocho
Was it?
Joe
Oh, yeah.
Uncle Joe
I could. Hey. I could only imagine. Hey. Hey, Joe. I went to my daughter probate while I pray for a.
Joe
They cut up in the.
Uncle Joe
Man, I came back here.
Ocho
They be looking good.
Uncle Joe
Hey. But my daughter crossed over as an AK and I came on the show to talk about the experience.
Ocho
Oh, you had that?
Uncle Joe
I was. Hey, I was in there. I was in tears.
Joe
You ain't seen that when you was in school.
Uncle Joe
I was at Langston, but damn near two weeks before I got thrown out for fight, you know, and then I went to, you know, Santa Monica, so I never had an opportunity to experience that. But, but, but being there, man, you know, for that.
Ocho
That.
Uncle Joe
That out that hour.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Like it, bro.
Uncle Joe
I ain't never seen nothing. I ain't never seen that.
Joe
Oh, man.
Uncle Joe
Oh, man, it was unbelievable.
Joe
College was amazing, bro.
Ocho
Not, Man.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Hey, you out of. Supposed to do a church. Oh, Joe.
Joe
Joe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not long.
Uncle Joe
Hey, hey, Uncle. If you could do it again, would you. If you. If you could do it again and you had the opportunity to go to a power five.
Ocho
No, sir.
Uncle Joe
You want your HBCU experience.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Because bad things would have happened to me at a pwi.
Joe
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
Okay.
Uncle Joe
I got you.
Ocho
I got you.
Uncle Joe
I got me.
Ocho
Let me. Let me go. Because I know. Because I'm not saying that it wouldn't, but I know that the professors and the doctors that I had, they cared about me. I'm not so sure that. And it might be. There might be a few that care about those. But they knew that I was going to be the representation, and I might be the best representation of Savannah State. So they're going to make sure that I was really, really educated. They weren't sending me out of there that didn't know, hey, we just gonna pass him along because he's good at football. Nah. And a lot of. A lot of the professors that. I mean, some. A lot of them pass on. But Dr. Brock, I had Dr. Brock, she probably in her 90s. She still asked Bucket about me. How's she had to do it. Every time they see him, Dr. McLemore, Doc, Dr. Green, they ask about me. And so when I had my. My jersey, retirement. When they retired my jersey, they asked me, anybody. I said, find these People, some of them had passed on. One lady, her name was Ms. Pat, she was in charge of the cafeteria, and they couldn't find her. But somehow she found out I was having it. And she showed up. She all. She got her white on. She. She dressed to the nine, and they wouldn't let her in. But I. Cause I was in the back, and they said, no, he. You weren't on the list. Bucky told him, said, nah, y' all better let that one in, man. Ms. Pat at the door, she saw me duck on my baby.
Donald
I told y'. All, My baby know I was coming.
Ocho
That woman loved because you couldn't what you were supposed to do. Ocho, we go through the line, the breakfast line, the lunch line, or the dinner line.
Uncle Joe
Right?
Ocho
Right. You get one serving, you eat what you got, then you come back. Ms. Pat, go ahead and give me two. Yeah, but everybody. Not only was it the players, man, the regular student. Because we ate with the regular student body. It wasn't like what y' all got at Oregon State or what, Arkansas.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Athletes eat together.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
And then the student body. No, we ate with the student body. So I was the only one, athlete, anybody. She gave me both of my service on one tray. But it got so mad. It's like, why you do him like that? Cause y' all ain't my baby. I wouldn't trade that experience for nothing, man.
Uncle Joe
Hey, I know people that had the opportunity for. People that had the opportunity to experience HBCU life, man, for four years at that.
Ocho
You the player, Joe show you went to an hbcu. I can see you pledging.
Joe
What it would have been.
Uncle Joe
Hey, what I would have pledged, huh? Based on my personality, he probably.
Joe
Nah, nah, I think he got the cane.
Ocho
Cause Ocho a showman. He gonna be twirling that cane. Hey,
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Joe
Alpha A capital or Alpha Alpha black and gold.
Ocho
Hey, why?
Uncle Joe
Why I can't be the one? I wanna. I don't want to be disrespectful, but. Yeah, you know, they wild. They crazy.
Joe
Hey, normally. But normally, football players pledge Q. Yeah, that.
Ocho
For the most part, but Q or a Kappa.
Joe
Hey, hey. They can't wait to take their off in the club. And had them big used showing on, huh?
Ocho
Yeah, yeah. They got them branded. I said no, man. Man, you out your. Damn, man. Y' all ain't gonna starve me. Y' all not cutting my hair. Ain't nobody wearing my clothes. Ain't nobody driving my car. Ain't none of that happening.
Joe
Oh, yeah.
Ocho
Oh, oh, oh.
Uncle Joe
Uncle, you Ain't pledged.
Ocho
I pledge me five me.
Uncle Joe
Hey, Joe, did you.
Joe
I played basketball.
Ocho
That's what. Thank you.
Joe
Oh, yeah, I got you.
Ocho
We had our own thing we called. We call it T5T.5T. So basically it was the team. The football team. Yeah. Hell no, Ocho. I gotta get my work, man. Send me down there for that. And to all the guys, hey, it's a great community and they got brotherhoods and they have all this and they have the conventions and all that, and more power to you. But that just wasn't me. Yeah, that wasn't why I was there. I ain't fitting to hold you. LeBron spoke about his decision, which prompted immediate backlash from both Cleveland ownership and fans. I took the villain role because I let the media and I was young. I was 25 years old. And a lot don't understand. That was the first time that I left home. Even when I got drafted by the Cavs, my first seven years with the Cavs, I still stayed in my hometown of Akron. It was the first time ever going to Miami when I did.
Donald
Why do we try so hard? So I can breathe.
Ocho
Why do you need to breathe?
Donald
So I can think. If I can breathe. If I can breathe, I can think. If I can think. If I can think. If I can think, then I can win.
Ocho
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Ocho
Hey, whoa, whoa.
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Ocho
announcement that was going to Miami. My whole mindset was I want to do something different. I Wanted to treat. Treat it like a college when guys get their caps. I didn't know or. I didn't know or feel like the hate that I got from that, the backlash from that was going to happen because I felt I was doing it. So I was allowed the media, I allowed everybody to put me in a dark place. The reason why, the reason I played the way I played in the finals is because I wasn't me. Shed that black hat, shed that Villa roll. I'm going to get back to being my effing self. And boom, we came in, ball to the wall, and we were able to make it happen. It was tough on me, but it definitely made me who I am ultimately, especially as a basketball player and also as a man. Ojo Joe, what your thoughts?
Joe
I think he had. He had to take that route, Uncle Ocho. He had to go to Miami. I'm gonna tell you why. Boston had just got KG and Ray Allen, and that's who put Braun out. It was gonna be hard for him. He putting up 45, 50 points against them dudes, and he can't beat him. He had. He had to go get some help. He had to.
Uncle Joe
Oh, yeah,
Joe
yeah. If not, he wouldn't have won one in Cleveland, you know, for him to go to Miami for them, what, four years was it? Four years off? Four. Yeah. One two titles. You know, Know what it's like to win now. He got that under his belt. Now he take it back to Cleveland with a young and. With a young Kyrie. And they brought Kevin Love in.
Uncle Joe
It was.
Ocho
Cooking is tough because, you know, he's like, I'm just announcing that I'm going.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
So would you have been upset had he not been? Now, mind you, now he raised money for the Boys and Girls Club. I mean, estimated he raised 2 to 3 million dollars. Damn. That. He was a free agent. He didn't request a trade. He didn't cost anybody anything. He's not like some guys that's like, I want to be traded, and you got to move the guy in the off season or you got to move him before the trade line you. Whatever you think of LeBron James, he's played his contract out. He played it out in Cleveland. He played it out in Miami. He played it out in Cleveland. He's playing it out in my. In. In Lakers. And LeBron, as far as I know, and you and I both know, everybody knows here, had LeBron ever requested a trade, it got out.
Joe
Yeah, he didn't.
Ocho
He would have got out.
Uncle Joe
Yeah.
Joe
He didn't have to request a trade, though. That was home. That's home for him. And I think, you know, the people in Akron, the people in Ohio, they understood that. And that's probably what hurt the most. I think with LeBron being 25 years old, you know, not knowing how to basically leave pretty much, you know, and doing that decision, I just felt, you know, the people of Ohio, they kind of felt like it was probably kind of thrown in their face to some degree, you know what I mean? Like, you put us on this big platform, platform like this to tell us you leaving. And that's why they would. That's why they were so negative towards him, you know, when he left.
Ocho
But. Well, you and I both know he was gonna hold that decision to say he coming back. Yeah, I mean, what you thought, Joe, who else? Who holds an announcement like that? Oh, I'm staying.
Joe
Nah, nah, you don't. I think we all were thinking that, though. I think we all were thinking like, man, look, hold on. He doing a decision. Wait, this just don't sit right.
Uncle Joe
Yes, you already knew. You already knew he was leaving at that point. And boy, they went to burning them jerseys on.
Ocho
And the thing is. But think about it. How many times? I guess because people. How many times you think people change jobs in the course of a year, Joe?
Joe
Not. Not. Not too many.
Ocho
You don't think people change? I'm talking about regular job. Go From Amazon to UPS, UPS to FedEx or do. I'm just talking about change jobs. How many people in the U.S. you think change jobs every year?
Joe
Every year?
Ocho
Yes.
Joe
I mean, that's. I thought you were saying, like.
Ocho
No, not players. No, no, no.
Joe
Yeah, yeah.
Ocho
See, the problem is, is that fans want players to be. To act normal, act like you. You human, just like the rest of them. And when they do things like the rest of us do what they do, or they get mad.
Uncle Joe
They get mad. Very mad.
Ocho
You feel? I like to think most times if you had a job, I want to rise up through the ranks. So no matter where I start, even if I start in the mail room, I don't want to stay in the mail room for 20 years. I want to move up.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Maybe I get a desk. And then maybe I do this and then I do that and I do that. We see Eric Spoelstra, he started breaking down tape. And then he at the bench. And then next thing you know, he. The head coach. Aspirations, Dreams. Yeah, most people have a dream. Like, you know what?
Donald
What?
Ocho
This is a nice little job, little entry level job, but I Have bigger dreams and I want to move up the ladder.
Joe
Right.
Ocho
LeBron Dreams was, I want to win a championship. If I can't do it here, what, why would I stay? Ocho? Why would I stay at a job? They're not going to give me the ability to advance. So basically I'm capped. This is where I am. I'm captain. This seventy, eighty thousand dollar a year job. This is where I am.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Or I could say, you know what? I think I got a better opportunity to rise up the ranks. LeBron says, you know what? I want to win a championship. I believe had LeBron, if Cleveland could have got like Boston got KG, like Boston got Ray Allen, I believe if they could have brought talent In, I believe LeBron would have stayed. What reason does he have to leave if he can win championships in his hometown? Because the championship that he won in Cleveland is worth more than both of those one he won in Miami.
Joe
I agree. Couldn't get no help. Couldn't get no help in Cleveland. Nobody want to go to Cleveland.
Ocho
Nobody going to damn Cleveland. The same thing. Yan is finding out about Milwaukee, isn't he, Joe?
Joe
There you go. There you go. It's hard to get. It's hard to get. It's hard to get talent in Milwaukee for guys even want to go there and play there with Giannis. Yeah, that's what he finding out.
Ocho
Unless you like Harley's and they promise you part of the Harley Davidson plant that's in Milwaukee. But I don't see a whole lot of basketball guys riding motorcycles. So that's out. Look, once you're. I don't have a problem. I've never had a problem with a guy leaving. Cause guess what? They trade players all the time.
Joe
Yep. Once they. Once they. Once. Once you no longer any use.
Ocho
But it's amazing how fans don't understand that. Joe and Ocho, you notice that Joe guys.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
That fans. Fans don't understand. They trade somebody. Oh, well, it's part of the business. A player leave.
Uncle Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Via free agents or asked to be traded. Oh, you sell, Maddie. You don't care about the fans. Well, the owner traded. You traded. You got last time. And he didn't care about the fans. But you understood that. I. I just never. I never understood how fans feel more connection to a billionaire than the millionaires. And maybe there's a. There's not a connection either way. Or maybe there's loyalty to the team. Okay, that's your. That's your team. LeBron or Giannis or KD or this guy they don't own the team.
Joe
Right.
Ocho
So why should they have a loyalty to a team that doesn't have loyalty to them?
Joe
Absolutely. Yeah, you're right.
Ocho
Y' all loyal to these teams. Guess what? They pick up and move.
Joe
Then how you feel all the time?
Ocho
How y' all feel when they pick up a move?
Uncle Joe
You got to move with them.
Ocho
Monk.
Uncle Joe
Hey. San Diego to LA charges.
Ocho
They should have stayed in San Diego.
Uncle Joe
I mean, ran a St. Louis Rams to LA.
Ocho
Well, they started in Anaheim.
Joe
They would.
Ocho
They was in. They was in la, and then they went to Anaheim. Then they went to St. Louis, and now they back in LA. The Raiders, Oakland and LA and Oakland and LA and Oakland. And now they're back in. Here they are in Vegas. Arizona was in St. Louis.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Hey, guess why they go, Ocho, I gotta have it.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
The Bears. Every time they moving out of Soldier Field, possibly going to the burbs or going to Indiana. Why Ocho? Kansas City left.
Uncle Joe
Hey, the bottom line is never that mighty dollar.
Ocho
The Oilers, they went. They left. They in Tennessee. Why
Uncle Joe
that money?
Ocho
I don't. I don't. Hey. Players leave.
Joe
Hey. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. You play your contract out. You should.
Ocho
You.
Joe
You. You get to pick. You get to pick and choose what you want to do.
Ocho
Hell, I don't give a damn. They don't play the contract that you trade me before my contract up. So I should be able to ask you out. Ask out. They want it both ways. You don't get to have it both ways. But that's where we are now. Ocho.
Joe
Man.
Ocho
Joe Ocho. The Washington Withers have apologized for an April fool skit in which a Planet fan was seemingly tricked and believing that he made a half court shot for $10,000. In a statement today, the wizard said they missed the mark the entire. But the entire bit was scripted. They blindfold the guy, Ocho. They have to try to hit a half court shot. Yes, yes. You go to get the check, they're
Uncle Joe
like, hey, yeah, I know, I know. You got me company. Hey, hold on. You got me coming to support you, right? Not only I'm coming to support you, y' all ain't winning.
Ocho
I'm coming to support y' all taking it.
Uncle Joe
Having a horrible season, and I'm coming out here to support. And you go, April Fool.
Ocho
You should have gave me $10,000 for showing my black ass up.
Joe
I had to see. I have to see. I gotta see the replay or something. You gonna give me like that?
Ocho
Oh, Joe, I. Baby show. But, I mean, they start screaming you think?
Donald
Yeah, I got it.
Joe
Yeah. I ain't gonna really believe it, Uncle. I'm like, hold on.
Ocho
I'm gonna take it out and be like, oh, what? I made it. I made.
Joe
Nah.
Ocho
Yes.
Donald
Cause they scream.
Joe
I need to see one replay.
Ocho
I need to see it.
Joe
Where is that?
Ocho
Man? Look here. If somebody. Joe. If you think about it, if somebody had told you, Joe, you and your mom just won $25,000, you ain't gonna ask no question how. What, like, give me that check. You don't ask no questions where the money come from if you think you about to get it. Hey, all I know is, hey, Christmas came early this year, man.
Joe
Hey, listen, what you told me they should have gave.
Ocho
Just go ahead and get a man the 10 grand and call it a day. Oh, was it. Well, if he's in on it, why y' all upset? Fast? They said it was script to say the guy, you know, he. He was a plant.
Joe
Yeah, he was. Because it seemed like, well, hell, they
Uncle Joe
gonna be upset anyway, regardless, just because the thought, the audacity.
Ocho
But you know what? April Fools ain't really people ain't really. It's done got so bad out here because if you really think about it, you read some of the stories, it's got to be April fool every damn day. Because ain't no way this possibly happening. Ain't no way. Think about. Think about this. Now. It's gotten so bad that ain't really. Nobody really played no April Fool's joke, did it. You ain't see nobody play no April Fool's joke. Nah, that's how bad it's done. Because every day is that. This got to be April Fool. No, dumb, dumb. It's June 17th. Hey, look, I thought I see kid for a second, guys.
Joe
Hey, hey, hey. I thought I got April fool last year.
Uncle Joe
What happened? What happened, Joe?
Joe
My homegirl, Laura, hit me. She was like, man, they want you to come on Nightcap tonight. And it was like. It was early in April, like the first week of April. I'm like. Like, man, listen, I said, hey, man, don't be calling my phone with all these April food jokes. Nah, I ain't playing. I ain't playing. Yeah, that's when I first found out. I told. I said, man, you need to go and get off my phone with all these April fool jokes.
Ocho
Yeah, but that's why. But I'm saying, man, I'll be like, man, you know, back in, man, we ate April Fools. I mean, you could believe nothing nobody said, because everything was a joke. No, I'm for real, though. Now you're not. It seemed like that.
Joe
Yeah, it seemed like that.
Ocho
You forget that It's April Fools.
Joe
Yeah, man. Yeah.
Ocho
Things done got so crucial now it seems like April Fool. Nah, bro, this ain't April Fool. This is real. Ocho. What's up, baby? Cousins signs a five year, 172 million dollar deal with the Raiders. In reality, it's a one year, 20 million fully guaranteed deal that also can buy the club option for two years at 80 million. The Falcons will pay Kirk Cousins 8.7 million this season, the Raiders 1.3. And Las Vegas. Excuse me. The Raiders will also play another 1.3. That's 10 million. Vegas also agreed to play the new quarterback, a fully guaranteed 10 million dollar roster bonus on the third day of the league new year league year in 2027. Most notably, it also sets another new mark. It'll be the 11th straight NFL season in which Cousins has had a fully guaranteed contract.
Uncle Joe
I told. I told you, Uncle Joe. Well, God has favor. God has favor for certain people. Obviously, timing for Kirk Cousins has always been impeccable, along with him betting on himself when he was in D.C. oh, that's how y' all want to play? You know what? I'm betting on myself, I'm definitely taking. And every time he hit. Hey, he hit big. Every time he hit big in Washington, he hit big in Minnesota, hell, he hit big. And goddamn Atlanta. And lo and behold, here we go,
Ocho
right back up, right back at it again.
Uncle Joe
Oh, and that's a good security blanket for them, too.
Joe
That's.
Uncle Joe
That's a good.
Ocho
Nice bridge. Nice little bridge to Mendoza.
Uncle Joe
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Very nice.
Joe
Is he gonna start though, or he.
Uncle Joe
No, no, no.
Ocho
I believe Cousins do start.
Uncle Joe
You think so?
Ocho
For the first probably five. Five to eight games. Think about it, Ocho. Guess who his coach was in Minnesota. Quarterback coach. Yeah, Kubiak.
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Ocho
The head coach of Vegas. Ocho, remember when you and I first started? I said that's why you don't burn no bridges. You see how that works? Because them guys go elsewhere.
Joe
Yeah. Yeah, right.
Ocho
Think about it, Autumn coaches that I had in Baltimore. Rex Ryan got a head job. Marvin Lewis got a head job. Jack Del Rio. Yeah, got a head job. All those guys. Mike Nolan, head job.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Mike Smith, job. So all you got to do is play your cards right, don't be no jerk. And guess what? They go get somewhere. You know what? Good veteran mentorship leadership in this locker room. Let's go get old Ocho.
Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
Let's go. Get Joe. But guys don't think like that. They think all these things in the present here right now where I am right man, please.
Uncle Joe
Hey, either he got good luck or he got favor or he knows something about somebody. He got some information off somebody and they just keep giving.
Joe
Hey, Kirk cousin hit a lick out here any man.
Uncle Joe
Hey, he hit them across the head.
Ocho
Hey, I'm calling Mike. I was like, Mike, look at man, I need a favor. I know you don't hired a lot of people. I need a job. 84. What you want to do, where you want to be. Sean McVeigh was on his staff. Kyle was on his staff. Kevin o', Connell, autumn guys lafleur. I could do something. Let me be community, direct community relations. How to do something? Oh, Joe. I want to do no coaching. I want to do no coaching.
Uncle Joe
Community relations.
Joe
Got no patience for no coaching.
Ocho
The hell no. Get your money. First cousins. Kirk cousins contract history four years $2.57 million. And then he played that contract out Ocho and then he had a one year basically 20 million dollar deal. And then he had the next year fully guaranteed because the franchise tag. And then he had a one year basically 24 million dollar deal. And then he signed a three year 84 million dollar deal fully guaranteed OCHO and then he signed a two year 66 million dollar deal OJ fully guaranteed. That is. And then he signed a one year Minnesota 35 million fully guaranteed OCHO and then he Signed a four year 180 million with a hundred million dollars guaranteed OCHO and now five years 172 with 20 guaranteed. And guess what? So 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13. So what is this? This is 15th year, 14, 15 year, 14 year. And Grant told him 14 years. Guess how many playoff wins he got. On your drum roll please.
Uncle Joe
One
Joe
man get out of here.
Uncle Joe
One. One. My boy. He got.
Ocho
Kirk Cousins had earned more money in football than Michael Jordan did. Playing basketball more than Tiger woods earned. And playing golf more than Serena Williams playing tennis. His career earnings from NFL contracts and see the entire net worth of Meryl Streep who's been a not. Who's won three Academy Awards and been a nominate and been nominated 21 times exceeds the entire network. Net worth of Martin Scorsese. Also nearly identical to Tom Brady who won seven Super Bowl Cousins one playoff win off win.
Uncle Joe
Hey, he don't have no playoff win, Joe. But what
Ocho
he won the super bowl with that bank account?
Uncle Joe
Yeah.
Ocho
He in the hall of Fame with that bank account?
Uncle Joe
Absolutely.
Ocho
Yeah. That's his thing. I Don't know who his agent is, but they might need to look into him. Hey, you talking about cousins got favor. He got favor.
Uncle Joe
But Joe. Hey, cousin's numbers will put you in the blender during the regular.
Joe
He's spreading that thing around, ain't it?
Ocho
Give him time.
Uncle Joe
He searched. He's surgical with that ball.
Ocho
Damn.
Joe
Hey, Curtis sitting at the house, he chilling. Feet kicked up and everything, huh?
Ocho
Yeah.
Uncle Joe
Yeah, he is very. He very religious too, is he?
Joe
Oh, yeah, very good God for you, man.
Uncle Joe
That's why. That's why I say. That's why I say you got favor now.
Joe
Mmm.
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LeBron tells Grizzlies to MOVE from MEMPHIS + LeBron SPEAKS on PLAYING the VILLAIN + Wizards Viral APRIL FOOLS Joke + Kirk Cousins INKS DEAL with Raiders
Podcast: Nightcap
Hosts: Shannon Sharpe (“Unc”), Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson (“Ocho”), Joe (Regular Guest), Uncle Joe (Guest)
Date: April 3, 2026
This hour of Nightcap brings signature unfiltered takes from Shannon Sharpe, Ochocinco, and company on hot headlines sweeping the NBA and NFL. The crew dig into LeBron’s viral comments about Memphis, dissect LeBron’s own villain era and fan expectations, cover the Wizards’ half-court April Fool’s blunder, and break down — and marvel at — Kirk Cousins’ improbable, lucrative career. Along the way, they reminisce about the unique experiences at HBCUs, traveling by bus, and the realities of player movement in pro sports.
[02:20 - 03:55]
[05:00 - 15:00]
[20:18 - 34:14]
[20:18 - 27:00]
[27:00 - 34:14]
[34:15 - 37:56]
[37:56 - 44:43]
| Segment & Topic | Time | |----------------------------------------------------|-----------| | LeBron on Memphis, hotel/arena talk | 02:20-04:07| | Bus rides, college travel, HBCU nostalgia | 05:00-15:00| | HBCU experience & influences | 14:03-18:25| | LeBron’s villain era, Miami move, fan expectations | 20:18-34:14| | Wizards' April Fools joke | 34:15-37:56| | Kirk Cousins Raiders contract deep dive | 37:56-44:43|
Warm, real, and unfiltered—bouncing from serious analysis to hilarious, personal storytelling and debate. The show mixes insight, barbershop banter, and blunt truth. The hosts aren’t afraid to call out hypocrisy or clown questionable decisions.
This Nightcap episode captures the spirit of late-night, barbershop sports talk—big NBA/NFL news peppered with storytelling, jokes, and sharp perspectives. If you want nuanced takes on player movement, honest stories from the athlete grind, and some hilarious life wisdom, this episode is a classic hang with Shannon Sharpe, Ocho, and crew.