Nightcap Hour 3: Minnesota Lynx LOCKED IN for PLAYOFFS + Ben Simmons TEASES NBA RETURN + BIG 3 Week 7 RECAP

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
Ben Simmons posted a photo of himself teasing a comeback. He wrote, I wouldn't change the story. The highs, the lows, the pain, the time, the lessons. I embrace all of it. Every chapter built something in me that I couldn't have built any other way. Grateful for where I've been. Proud of where I stand. Ready for wherever this goes.
Simmons last suited up for the Clippers in the 2024-2025 season. Joe, what's really going on?

**Gilbert Arenas** (0:27)
I think if y'all want me to be honest, there's still a chance that this young man can still come back to the NBA and play.
Now, will he come back and be a point guard at 6'10? No. But you talking about being one of those power fours or even playing some center, Unc and Ocho, to where when you rebound the ball, you could push it as almost like a fast break because I think he'll still be a pretty good defensive player.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:52)
Yeah.

**Gilbert Arenas** (0:52)
But the only thing, man, that's going to always hunt this young man is the fact that he won't shoot that damn ball. Man, that's going to always hunt him, bro. That's going to always hunt him because I think he's a hell of a playmaker. He's a hell of a player. But to be the number one pick and you're not a scorer in today's game is difficult, bro.
It's difficult. You don't think you got a chance?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:15)
It's hard to be a liability now on offense, Joe.

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:18)
Yeah. Your liability is over with.
That's why I say he can't come back and play the point guard. He can come back and be like a foreman to where, you know, screen, roll to the basket, play make in the little dunker and in the little short roll in the dunker spot. You know, if you get the rebound, you push it, you're able to play make. But to be a whole point guard like he was or what he facilitating and bringing them up now.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:42)
Can he be Isaiah Stewart? Can he play that role? Get some rebound, put backs?

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:47)
You gotta have some dog in you for that.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:49)
Well, I guess he could be over there holding up a fish.

**Gilbert Arenas** (1:53)
Yeah, well I guess he go stay going fishing.
I guess so. You ain't that job Isaiah Stewart got, bro. You gotta bring your lunch pail every damn day. You can't be playing.

**Chad Johnson** (2:05)
Isaiah Stewart is an enforcer. Ben Simmons ain't that.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:08)
No, no, absolutely right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:12)
Yeah, I just don't see it. And Ben, bro, teasing and all this, at least life lessons, bro, that ain't enough, bro. Get your butt in the gym. If you gonna come back, come back. If not, just move it along.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:26)
Come on back, Ben.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:27)
My abs and riddles and.

**Gilbert Arenas** (2:31)
That's today's era, Unc. That's how they move.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:37)
Minnesota is locked in for the WNBA playoff. The Lynx are the first team to secure a playoff berth. Kayla McBride breaks the WNBA record for the most threes in a game. She made 10 If I'm not mistaken, she was 10 of 14, scored a career high 43 points. Here's a closer look at McBride's record breaking effort. She was shot 7 of 7 on contested field goals for 18 points, 9 of 14 on open looks for 25 points, 15 of 19 for 41 points off of teammates passing, including 8 of 9 from field goals off of the spectacle Olivia Miles for 22 points. She shot 9 of 13 for 27 points on catch and shoot attempts. Perfect 5 of 5, 14 points with Paye Beckers as the primary defender.
Right now, they're the prohibited favorites.
Unprohibited.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:27)
Unc, Ochocinco. I'm gonna keep it real with y'all.
I don't really see no team messing with this Minnesota team right now. It ain't even just Olivia Miles as a rookie doing her thing. You see Kayla McBride. Doing her thing, but Fee, since Fee came back.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:42)
Little got feedback, yep.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:43)
Oh, it ain't even, Ocho Fee, she the one, she won the one-on-one tournament, not last season, but the year before in Miami. And then, ah, ah. What's that league?

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:56)
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Rival.

**Gilbert Arenas** (3:57)
Yeah, in the Rival League. She won that. So look, she got hurt, but she came back. She can go. I ain't even talking about just offensively Unc and Ocho. Man, I watched them play against the Aces. She did a hell of a job in Garden Asia. She can shoot the three.