Best of NBA News Part 2: Zion Williamson IMPRESSES + LeBron's GOAT case in QUESTION + Anthony Davis STAYING in D.C.?! artwork

Best of NBA News Part 2: Zion Williamson IMPRESSES + LeBron's GOAT case in QUESTION + Anthony Davis STAYING in D.C.?!

Nightcap

August 12, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson, and Joe "King Iso" Johnson bring you the Best of NBA News on Nightcap!
Speakers: Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson, Gilbert Arenas, Joe Johnson

Topics: Football, Sports, Basketball

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
The Wizards and Anthony Davis agent, Rich Paul, have decided to wait and talk for the potential extension until after the season starts.
AD becomes eligible today to sign an extension worth up to four years, $275 million.
One source, Tony Shaw, this gives both sides the first 20 games to marinate on whether to pay AD or not. Joe, do you believe 20 games is enough to see if AD is worth $275 over four years?

**Chad Johnson** (0:28)
Hey, listen, it gives me a nice little sample size, and it keeps them firing the AD. You got to show me some, Uncle Ochocinco. In them 20 games, I don't need you taking no games off. I need you because you say you're going to play 82 Now, it's been reported that he's not really saying he's going to play 82 games. I'm going to tell you what he said. That man said, you're playing all 82 I want to see AD get back to dominating. Yeah, they'll break him off.
He better be couldn't achieve in the first 20 games. I know that. Why? Ocho, that'll be all on my mind. Like the first 20 games, I got to come out here and show out.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:04)
What you thinking, Ocho?

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:07)
I mean, listen, based on his injury history, based on what we've seen almost every single season, he's always been hurt. For sure. I ain't never knocking on nobody when it come to making any money. Four years, 275, he's earned that. He's one of the best fours, best fives, one of the best stretches to ever play the game.
I'm just saying, I'm just thinking about, he's always hurt most of the time. But get your money, young bull. I can't knock that.

**Chad Johnson** (1:40)
And, Uncle Ocho, they just gave Trey Young 212
Some similar to that. You know what I mean? Like, the Wizards, that's going to be a lot of money for a team who wasn't in the damn playoffs last year. You know what I mean? So, jump out the gate. You know, show some promise. You know, help this young AJ to bounce out. Hopefully, that all blends and meshes well together. Yeah, man, they, hey.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:11)
Zion, Ocho Dumas told Zion Williamson, to be great at basketball, you have to be obsessed with it per what? Where are we, Ocho, where have they heard that word, obsessed, and about to be great at something?
Ain't that what we talk about all the time?

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:27)
Yeah, it's the only way to be great at something.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:30)
But why would they give us credit when we say, how many times we don't say it there, Ocho?

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:35)
Yeah, over and over. You got to be obsessed with it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:39)
But okay, you can't casually become great in the league.
What I've seen from him this summer is he's obsessed with the work he's putting in. And this is really encouraging for me that he's putting in this type of work.

**Chad Johnson** (2:53)
That's all we've been saying. Hey.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:58)
Hey, I got a question for you, Unc and Joe. Yes.

**Chad Johnson** (3:01)
What's that?

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:02)
This work he's putting in, is this a contract here?

**Chad Johnson** (3:08)
I don't, is it really off?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:12)
He's, I think he's eligible to sign an extension this summer.

**Chad Johnson** (3:16)
Oh yeah, you mean next summer, will next summer come?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:20)
Yeah, yes, yes, in 2017

**Chad Johnson** (3:22)
He trying to get that three-horn done.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:26)
All them, all them NBA are doing for you.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:28)
You see what I mean?
Yeah. You see what it'll take to get you to be obsessed? Or it's time to get paid. Okay, now I'ma lock in.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:37)
A commitment, a singular focus.

**Chad Johnson** (3:39)
But, but, hey, hey, but if you do get that prize, you still gotta stay locked in, man. You can't exhale. That's all we've been talking about with Zion, man. If he put the work in, cause I'm telling y'all man, when that man plays, Ocho, he gonna give you at least 26

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:56)
Yeah, every time.

**Chad Johnson** (3:57)
And that's a guy who ain't even really in tip top shape. Now for that picture that we've seen a couple of weeks ago, man, if that man look anything like that coming into the season, he's able to sustain that, he gonna be unstoppable, bro. I'm telling you.
Unstoppable.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:15)
He was eligible, Ocho, Joe, he was eligible this off season for an injury, but there've been no movement.

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