Nightcap Hour 2: Isiah Thomas QUESTION why Brunson ISN’T Face of NBA + Josh Hart KNEW Spurs Were COOKED + BIG 3 is BACK + Pistons to MAKE MOVE for Austin Reaves + NBA Draft Experts say Peterson OVER Dybansta

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Josh Hart said tonight that the Knicks knew the Spurs were food after seeing Wemby cry when they beat OKC. Wow.

**Chad Johnson** (0:08)
Hey, you can't show that kind of motion. I think a few other basketball players say the job is not done. The job is not over. The task at hand, the ultimate goal is to win a championship.
You know, that Larry O'Brien. So to be crying because you're going to the final.

**Joe Johnson** (0:23)
I don't know if it was crying because they were going to the final. I think he was crying because they beat OKC. Knowing how tough and challenging it was. Knowing that they were the champions from last year.
I think that's why he was.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:35)
And they got the MVP on the roster.

**Joe Johnson** (0:38)
Yeah, you go. Yeah, and Wemby probably feels slighted that he didn't win MVP.
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:44)
Yes.

**Chad Johnson** (0:44)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:45)
He said he used that as motivation.

**Joe Johnson** (0:46)
Yeah, so those emotions came out.

**Chad Johnson** (0:50)
Yeah, I understand.

**Joe Johnson** (0:53)
Oh, yeah. I mean, but at 22, Ocho, I mean, it's tough, bro. I mean, it's probably other cats who could have held them emotions in, but I just felt like they kind of took over. Like I heard him say in many press conference, like he didn't really, he can't explain it. You know what I mean? Like it's just something he dreamed of. You know what I mean? And I think that's the great part about sports, bro, because we all grew up, whether it's y'all catching touchdowns, whether it's me counting the shot clock down, making the game, winning shot. And then for you to actually be in that situation and actually come through, yeah, I think it's very emotional.
I think it's very emotional. Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:37)
And then he 22 You don't know.
I'm sure he understood that like, wow. Because, I mean, some people had them in the play-in tournament. Some people had them, you know, fifth or sixth seed and here they are the number two seed. And they took down the reigning defending champ with the reigning defending MVP on the roster. They did that.
I don't hold nobody's emotions against them because everybody does it differently. And I think the thing is that when you try to put, obviously, how you do certain things, you know, we all know how you do certain things, how you talk about your teammates and how you carry on. That's very, very important. But everybody deals with success differently. And some people, you know, like, hey, like, you know, some people, you know, cry like Jordan. When Jordan won and then he realized like, you know what, man, and maybe it was because his father wasn't there to see him selling wrist pistol. And you see, and you see Kobe, Kobe got the trophy in his hand and he's just looking at it. And that was around the time that he and his mom had stopped speaking. And all the things, all the thoughts that's going through his mind.
Some people like, man, please, this is the time of my life. I can't worry about who not here.

**Joe Johnson** (2:55)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:58)
Everybody had a little situation differently.

**Joe Johnson** (2:59)
Yeah. I mean, Unc, when you look at it, Jordan won a championship on Father's Day.
You know what I mean? I think that's why it was so emotional for him. You just seen him break down, bawl and cry. Hell, I probably would have been the same way. I ain't going to lie to you. If I was that close to my pops, bro, and he got murdered, man, I've been saying we won on Father's Day. Come on, bro.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:26)
I mean, death is really never easy. That's the thing that, I mean, you have to really respect and love about death, if there's anything, because it doesn't discriminate.

**Joe Johnson** (3:35)
No.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:37)
It take young, it'll take old, it'll take rich, it'll take poor. It does not discriminate. Just know when you have that appointment, you can't reschedule it. And death, you know, there's no way to prepare for it. It's like, well, how do you prepare for it? We all know we're going to die. It didn't make it any easier when it actually happens to your loved ones that you left behind. But it's the fashion in which Jordan's father succumbed. So sudden. Man, 85, 90 years old, man, he had a great life. Man, you can remember, but tragically, how somebody senselessly took that man's life. And you think, I'm Michael Jordan, I'm supposed to be able to insulate stuff like that. I should be able to insulate my family from that foolishness. There are some things I can't control cancer. I can't control kidney disease, liver disease, things like that. There are certain things, I don't care, they ain't get enough money. But there are certain things I feel like, my money, my fame, I should be able to insulate like that. I don't know, and probably whoever did this, I don't know, I'm sure they even knew what it was.