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

**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 know, you got to show me some, Uncle Ochocinco. And 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 now. 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, he better be couldn't cheat, boy, in the first 20 games. I know that. Boy, hey, hey, hey, Ochocinco, that'll be all on my mind, like these first 20 games. I got to come out here and show out.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:03)
Yeah. What you thinking, Ochocinco?

**Joe Johnson** (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 their money. Four years, 275, he's earned that. He one of the best fours, best fives, one of the best stretches to ever play the game.
And I'm just saying, I'm just thinking about, he's always hurt most of the time. But get your money, get your money, young boy. I can't knock that.

**Chad Johnson** (1:39)
And, and, Uncle Ochocinco, they just gave Trey Young like 212
Something 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, show some promise. You know, help these young AJ to bounce out. Hopefully that all blends and meshes well together. Yeah, man, they, hey.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:11)
Zion, oh, Joe Dumas told Zion Williamson to be great at basketball. You have to be obsessed with it per what?
Well, Joe, where have they heard that word, obsessed and about to be great at something?
Isn't that what we talk about all the time?

**Joe Johnson** (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 done said this, so, Joe?

**Joe Johnson** (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.

**Joe Johnson** (2:58)
Hey, I've got a question for you, Uncle, and Joe. Yes.

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

**Joe Johnson** (3:02)
This work he's putting in, is this a contract year?

**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.

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

**SPEAKER_5** (3:25)
You see what I mean?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:27)
All them NBA are doing for you.

**Joe Johnson** (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'm gonna 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, because I'm telling y'all, man, when that man plays, Ocho, he gonna give you at least 26

**Joe Johnson** (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 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.