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.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (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 unfortunately, we still gotta show up and play tomorrow and I gotta coach, so the people that matter, we bond together, we stick together through highs and lows. And we were, I think, chosen to be in the playing.
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 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 ball in his hands at the end of the game. And I have nothing but the most confidence that he's going to deliver like he's done countless times for us.

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

**Chad Johnson** (2:02)
Man, that's hard to believe fellas. In this day and time, you hear every damn thing they said about you.

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

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:10)
Always, always. But obviously your coaches are gonna always back you, your coaches gonna say things in front of camera. He's gonna be politically correct. De'Aaron 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 gonna mention it. You got homeboys, you got homeboys, they gonna mention it.

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

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

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

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

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:41)
I'm just, what they gonna say?

**Chad Johnson** (2:43)
Yeah.

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

**Chad Johnson** (2:49)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me again, they on you. Oh yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:53)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, as a matter of fact, I told a story one time, hey, Burns told me, said, man, dude called me, 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 gonna get over it. And I know we can't get that game back, but still, I still feel some type of way about it. It's the, mistakes happen.
It's the repeat.
It's the repeat. 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. Who hit this three point shot, Joe? He was the guy that took the ball out of bounds.