Nightcap Hour 2: KD to Detroit?!?!?! + Hornets DONE with Bad Influences + 2016 Cavs reunion BACKLASH artwork

Nightcap Hour 2: KD to Detroit?!?!?! + Hornets DONE with Bad Influences + 2016 Cavs reunion BACKLASH

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July 6, 2026

Shannon Sharpe, Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson and Iso Joe Johnson react to Ric Bucher saying Lakers chose to move on from LeBron when acquiring Luka, Mario Chalmers has gut feeling LeBron goes to Warriors, Ben Wallace takes shot at Cavs reunion, Hornets cleaned house of distractions and Kevin Durant...
Speakers: Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson
**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
That's a problem in itself, right there, Ocho?
Yes. But I do think you can develop these kids, man. I think, obviously, it takes a lot of time and work, but you can put in that fundamental development to where these guys come out and really know how to play the game. See, right now, we're so talented as Americans that we don't really get taught lessons no more. Think about it, in high school now, they're going to recruit you, we're going to pay you $100K. I want you to come play in two tournaments. We know you got talent, but we ain't going to be, you know what I mean? We just want you to come play in two tournaments. Yes. Ocho, you might be in another city. We're going to pay you $100K to come. Come on, man. It's not chemistry continuity. We just based off rolling the ball out of pure talent, going to play. Ain't nobody really breaking the game down to these kids. I mean, it's a few people here and there, but they need that development, man, because we're behind when it comes to foreign. That's why they didn't caught up with us.
But you know what happened, Joe? Is that when we were growing up, whatever school district you went in, that's the high school you went in. You couldn't go play for somebody else. They had a better team in football or a better team in basketball, better track, better baseball. You played, if your district was sorry, well, your school just sorry.
It was really that simple. Back then, nobody played. We played sports, not even thinking about no damn NBA or NFL. We played because we loved, hey, man, Ocho, man, you will play football? Yeah. I will go play too. Ask my grandma, can I play?
Joe, you play, you going out for basketball? Yeah, I'm going to ask my mom, can I play? Now, you got kids out there. They got trainers, Joe, nine, ten years old. Hello.

**Chad Johnson** (1:43)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:44)
Yeah.
We worked on dribbling on a dirt, shooting on an old bi-cigarette, we done knocked all the smokes out, the total piece of plywood out the barn, cut a tree down, an oak tree, a medium sized oak tree and tacked it up and that was our goal. Man, we weren't thinking about, man, I remember when mama bought me and Spanky a rim from Western Auto. I know y'all, I don't know if they still got Western Autos, but they used to have Western Autos and you could buy basketball rims. Man, we bought a basketball rim and we got a chain net. Oh, man. What?
Boy, you couldn't hit me in the ass with a red Alpo Joe. You couldn't tell me nothing. A chain net? A chain net is different. Hey, that sound different.

**Chad Johnson** (2:30)
Hey, that chain net.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:31)
Hey, look, see, what my pop family is is sweet homes. That ain't far from where my neighborhood is, but we had crates. We had crates on the light pole on the Ocho. Milk crates, yeah. You know what I mean? A little dirt court. Yeah. Yeah, we used to be getting down. Yeah. Yes.
That's what we learned to play. And then, you know, they had directs on them, but see, at direct, Joe, once it got dark, you had to put money in for the lights to come on.
So, you had to put, you had like, for like 30 minutes, it cost you like 50, 75 cents. And once the lights get up, man, they start, it'll start making a noise. Man, who got a quarter? Who got a quarter? Ain't nobody got no quarter. The thing go dark, game over. Hey, hey, I remember that boy, when them street lights came on, I was like, oh, Joe, my momma was, she was outside looking for me, hell. I had to be in that house by the time the street lights came on now. Oh yeah, and the thing, Joe, I remember I used to ride my bicycle to the park. So I would ride my bicycle to the park, even after I got off work. So I would ride my bicycle to the park, and then my sister come by to see if I was still playing, I put my bicycle in the trunk of the car, and she drive, take me home. That's how bad I wanted to play. Man, these kids don't drive. I don't even know kids, they even got a bike now.
Yeah, man, it's bad now, okay, I'll tell you.
Rick Buker says, Laker planned on getting rid of LeBron ever since they acquired Luka, and he finds it funny his exit was framed as LeBron telling the Lakers he was leaving. Wow, Rick, you're breaking news. I mean, that a way to go out of the limb. So let me ask you a question. If they didn't get Luka, we understand that LeBron does not have the same cache at 41, almost 42 He had it 25 Yeah. So let me ask you a question, Mr. Buker. And Rick was undisputed. If they the same age, are they getting with a LeBron?

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