Nightcap Hour 2: Thunder GM Sam Presti DEFENDS SGA + Las Vegas ACES BACK in FORM + Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorby’s COURT RULING

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:00)
Thunder GM, Sam Presti, spoke on the criticism towards SGA. Let's take a listen to what Mr. Presti had to say.

**Sam Presti** (0:07)
Relative to Shay and the narrative on that, you know, he's playing against six people. He's got five defenders and the sixth defender is social media. And, you know, that's a reality. And he's not gonna be the last player that the machine decides to target, but no one's gonna handle it gracefully, because when they turned it on somebody else, they're not gonna step up there every night and not acknowledge it.

**Chad Johnson** (0:39)
I mean, what do you mean the machine? What do you mean social media?
What machine is talking about? What social media is talking about? It's exactly what he does game by game. He does it every night. What are we talking about? I'm sure Mr. Presti, that's your player. You have to defend your player. But the eye in the sky doesn't lie, Joe.

**Joe Johnson** (0:57)
You're saying what you're saying? You're saying he out there foul baiting?
Yeah, of course. Listen, listen.

**Chad Johnson** (1:03)
Is Mr. Presti lying?

**Joe Johnson** (1:05)
Listen, I'm not saying sometimes he don't over-exaggerate and try and get calls. But man, that damn game seven, he didn't do no damn foul baiting. That man was getting straight buckets.
What I'm saying is, this is a part of who he is and what he's done over the past three to four or five years, fellas. You know what I mean? He's a bucket getter. He creates a lot of contact. He plays through contact. He actually plays off of contact by lowering his shoulder, not overextending, but using them bumps to create space. That's legal.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:44)
Yeah, that's legal, bro.

**Joe Johnson** (1:45)
That's what people don't understand. You can use your forearm, your shoulders, your hips to create space. Long as I don't overextend, I can brace myself.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:54)
The same thing with us, Ocho, how we do that, how we get that DB., that y'all.

**Joe Johnson** (1:58)
Yeah, I just think he's so good at it, bro, and he's perfected it, that now it's a problem. You know what I mean?

**Chad Johnson** (2:07)
No, Joe, that's not a problem, which you just explained. There are a lot of players that have that in their toolbox. What's about the failing, the throwing your body all over the face, trying to create the fouls and get the foul calls? That is what he does all the time.
I see it, you see it, Ray Charles can see it. I don't know what Mr. Presti watching. I know you have to defend your player, but the point to where everybody is mimicking some of the stuff he does globally around the world and making fun of it?

**Joe Johnson** (2:36)
Yeah, I mean, look, Ocho, it's a part of who he is, but he's right when he say that six, that machine, because social media points out, they break down your game, bro.
They break your whole game down and they make clip, they make clip from you all the way up for five, 10 minutes of you pushing off, creating space and now quite naturally, if a referee sees it, he gonna watch it. You know what I mean? So he just plantin that seed.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:08)
Yeah.

**Chad Johnson** (3:09)
And like you said, Joe, it's too many seeds out there, Joe. It's too many seeds being planted because we continuously see the same thing over and over and over, as great as he is. He's one that knows how to manipulate his body, manipulate defenders and get calls.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:26)
Yeah. He does. And I think the thing is now is that what Sam is saying is that because you have social media and because you have everybody that has a platform, and even though obviously some people platforms are larger, some people have five followers, some people got 500,000, some people got millions. And so now when you get everybody that they feel they're a head coach, they feel they're a former player, they feel like they're a GM or an analyst, and they can put this, what, a compilation together and say, look, look at this.
I guarantee you, if I go back over to your Ocho, I can find something, see? I told y'all Ocho was nasty. I told y'all Ocho was nasty, look at it right here. Look what he's doing.
And so that's what they do, that's what they do, Ocho. They take all your faults and they compile them together. And they're like, well damn, y'all do realize this is over a span of a year, over a span over two years. Y'all make it seem, they make it seem like it's all in one game. But like you said, anytime somebody finds out how to do something, over time, they get better at it.