Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin explain why Jayson Tatum has never seriously been considered as the next Face of the NBA, take LeBron James to task for suggesting once again that NBA media members are too critical of today’s players and tell us why the Philadelphia 76ers should try to get out of the Joel Embiid business as soon as possible.
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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. |
| 0:26.4 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple. |
| 0:32.1 | Rob G. |
| 0:33.7 | Set us up here about Jason Tatum, who of course is a star in the NBA, won the NBA |
| 0:43.0 | championship a year ago, finally got some of the, got the monkey off his back, because |
| 0:48.5 | you know they were really good, won a lot of games and all that, but people still just said |
| 0:51.9 | that they didn't trust him particularly and that they didn't believe in the Celtics. But Rob G, frame this for us. Sure. So, of course, tonight's- Frame this. I'll try to frame it. A picture suitable for framing. There you go. That is my all-time favorite. Do you remember the old days when they used to have those things and they would be like, yes, and you will get your picture suitable for framing? |
| 1:14.1 | Okay. I'm sorry. |
| 1:15.2 | So tonight's game, of course, the heavyweight matchup, calves against the Celtics top teams in the East, |
| 1:21.3 | two most likely teams to represent the Eastern Conference and NBA Finals. |
| 1:25.1 | And it's kind of fitting that LeBron James went viral last night. |
| 1:28.5 | We'll get to him later in the show for suggesting that nobody wants to be the face of the NBA |
| 1:35.5 | because of all the ridicule that comes along with it. |
| 1:37.7 | Well, one guy who has made it abundantly clear, I would love to be the face of the NBA, |
| 1:43.9 | but nobody kind of wants me to me. |
| 1:45.9 | That's Jason Tatum. |
| 1:47.1 | Spoke to Michael Lee, was joining us here in about 25 minutes in the Washington Post. |
| 1:51.0 | And Lee asked him if he feels like he is appreciated in NBA circles. |
| 1:57.2 | Here's what Tatum said, quote, honestly, no. |
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