Welcome to The Greatest Players in the Game. This is Episode 1.
Michael Dupri and B Cash launch the podcast with a simple idea: this is the breakfast table of champions. Three shows a week covering sports, business, dating, culture, and everything your group chat argues about. Mondays are Guy’s Day. Wednesdays are Ladies’ Night. Fridays are the Cookout. Everyone’s provisionally invited.
This week’s guests represent two sides of the same coin. Andre Ford is a former Florida State football player currently fighting for a roster spot on a pro football practice squad in Los Angeles. Every day is an audition. He breaks down what the grind actually looks like: the 5 a.m. wake-ups, the calculated macros, the film sessions, the weight room, and why he’s building a physical therapy career alongside competitive bodybuilding as his long game.
Cody Reagan is a former pro basketball player, second-round draft pick, and five-team journeyman who played overseas in Spain, Amsterdam, and Russia. His stories are unbelievable. In Spain, he accidentally chatted up the Prime Minister’s wife at a state dinner and earned the nickname “El Presidente.” In Amsterdam, he was kicked out of a mob-owned apartment at 3 a.m. by armed men. In Russia, he called his agent about a difficult building manager, and let’s just say that situation got handled in a way that normal property management does not handle things. After retiring in his mid-thirties, Cody turned his basketball earnings into long-term investments in strip malls, car washes, and fast food franchises, and hasn’t looked back.
Along the way, Cody reveals that Michael’s older brother Arnold secretly asked Cody to teach young Michael how to shoot a basketball, throw a football, and do all the sports things Arnold couldn’t teach him. Michael hears this for the first time on air.
The episode also features the Monday Morning Quarterback segment with a full weekend sports recap covering NFL preseason Week 1, a massive MLB weekend headlined by Ohtani’s 40th home run, and WNBA action.
Study the game. Go hard in the paint. Stay all the way up.