Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Rob discuss the latest surrounding Kyrie Irving and wonder aloud how much more the Brooklyn Nets will put up with before they release him outright, explain why they haven’t been super impressed by the Philadelphia Eagles this season even though The Birds currently sit at 8-0 on the season, and share their thoughts on Nike’s decision to suspend their relationship with Kyrie in the wake of the anti-Semitism scandal.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, 4-7 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:16.6 | Find your local station for the odd couple at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeartRadio app by searching FSR. |
| 0:26.2 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.6 | Today, a story from ESPN came out, Ramona Shelburne and Adrian Walsh Naurowski, |
| 0:42.3 | saying that throughout this, so obviously there are a lot of people being critical of the Nets and the NBA for taking so long to do this. |
| 0:51.2 | And the story, if the reporting of this story tells us that Josai, the owner, |
| 0:56.8 | was trying to give Kyrie a chance to kind of, you know, do, make it right himself by issuing |
| 1:04.1 | an apology and so on and so forth. And yet what during that time, |
| 1:14.5 | Kyrie would not return any of Joe's messages. |
| 1:20.3 | The contact between the Nets and Kyrie that we would assume, |
| 1:25.1 | this is before the Anti-Defamation League statement comes out. Right. |
| 1:25.4 | According to this story, |
| 1:31.6 | Kyrie and the Nets did not discuss that at all. |
| 1:39.4 | It was Kyrie's agent who's his stepmom who was basically talking to the Nets on Kyrie's behalf. |
| 1:41.4 | So he was not involved in any of that. |
| 1:43.9 | And Rob, I mean, this whole thing is a mess. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:49.7 | If you, what type of person are you that you won't, this man who's paying you tens of millions |
| 1:57.4 | of dollars and you, and are a a situation of your own doing and you won't return |
| 2:09.5 | his text i'm i don't get that and i've been i think uh as kind kind to Kyrie in this situation is, as you could hope for. |
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