Nightcap Hour 2: Mitch Johnson DOUBLES DOWN on De’Aaron Fox + Giannis to BOSTON Heating UP + LeBron ROCKING the GREY

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
There's been a lot of heat on De'Aaron Fox in the last 48 hours. Let's take a listen to Ms. Johnson, and Fox had to say about all this criticism.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:09)
Mitch, looking back too, was there anything that could have been done differently on OG's tip in after looking at the film? And also, De'Aaron's getting a lot of heat for decisions that he made in the game. Is that difficult to hear, knowing that all he did to get you guys, to help get you guys in this position?

**Mitch Johnson** (0:27)
Yeah, you know, I can't speak for everybody else. I don't get into social media. I think I've probably been fired 212 times, and we traded Fox 72 times. And, you know, unfortunately, we still got to show up and play tomorrow, and I got to coach. So the people that matter, we bond together, we stick together through the highs and lows. And, you know, we were, I think, chosen to be in the play-in.
And so there's a lot of things that happened. Fox and I were fortunate enough to experience All-Star Weekend together.
We got a lot of positive after that. And we lost a tough game in the finals that we had a lot to do with, in terms of we had control to walk that thing down. And that's what comes with the job. That's not more or less. And, you know, people have their opinions here. They say, I don't care. I care what the people that matter in our building, in our organization, in that locker room, that they know how I feel. And I hear them and how they feel. And De'Aaron Fox will have the best point of his hands at the end of the game. And I have nothing but the most confidence that he's gonna deliver like he's done countless times for us.

**De'Aaron Fox** (1:36)
It's not like people have my phone number and can call me like, like, I mean, I don't watch those shows. I don't, it doesn't matter. It is what it is. Can't change it now. And I was just coming up and yelling at you in your face about it. So it is what it is.
We're trying to move on from that. Obviously continue to learn from the mistakes we made and how we lost the lead or how we finished the game poorly. But we think about the next game.

**Joe Johnson** (2:04)
That's hard to believe, fellas. In this day and time, you hear every damn thing that said about you.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:09)
Of course.

**Chad Johnson** (2:10)
Always, always. But obviously your coaches are going to always back you. Your coaches are going to say things in front of camera. He's going to be politically correct. Darian Fox and his answer.
You hear everything. People don't need to be in your face because social media, they make sure it gets to you one way or another. If it don't get to you from us, it get to us from the closest person to you, they're going to mention it. You got homeboys. You got homeboys. They're going to mention it.

**Joe Johnson** (2:33)
Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (2:34)
That's just the way it is in general.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:36)
Ochocinco, you drop a page home. Hey, man, bro, you all right?

**Chad Johnson** (2:39)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:41)
I'm just, what they're going to say, Ochocinco?

**Chad Johnson** (2:43)
Hey, that's my homeboy. Hey, hold on. They're making fun of me, huh? Man, you, hey, boy, you sorry as hell, boy.

**Joe Johnson** (2:49)
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Me again. They on you.

**Chad Johnson** (2:53)
Oh, yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:56)
Hey, as a matter of fact, I told a story one time, man, he burst over, said, man, dude called, said, man, tell him, he said, man, tell Sharpe to lighten up on me, man. That's been 30 years ago. He said, he ain't moved past that yet. No.
I ain't going to get over it. And I know we can't get that cake back, but still. I still feel some type of way about it. It's the, mistakes happen.

**Joe Johnson** (3:19)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:20)
It's the repeat. It's the repeat.

**Joe Johnson** (3:24)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:25)
Even the last play, think about it, they were so out of position, everybody was scrambling, because they tried, first of all, it seemed like they was trying, I don't know if that was the plan, because if you go back and look at the top, always the guy, the most dangerous guy on a play, is the guy that's taking the ball out of bounds. Go back and look at the North Carolina shot that that guy hit.