Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Rob and Kelvin debate whether Adam Silver and the NBA at-large should still be willing to wait while LeBron James settles on his next team, discuss whether a history of missteps and apologies ultimately cost Ryan Clark his job at ESPN, and tell us whether Cam Newton’s controversial interview with Stephen A Smith’s nemesis Jason Whitlock played a role in Cam getting laid off at ESPN.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Be sure to check us out live every weekday from 4 to 7 p.m. Pacific, 7 to 10 p.m. Eastern on Fox Sports Radio. |
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| 0:22.2 | FSR. |
| 0:23.7 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple. |
| 0:29.7 | LeBron James. |
| 0:31.3 | What you got? |
| 0:33.1 | I mean, a whole lot of nothing, right? |
| 0:34.6 | They're still playing the waiting game. |
| 0:36.0 | This now has gone on longer than his previous three free agency periods. I saw that movie. I didn't like it. Come by. That's the crying game. I'm sorry. And ESPN is reported, hey, do not expect any decision to come today. And that's no surprise because Rich Paul, on his own podcast, I dropped this morning, in response to Adam Silvers. |
| 0:54.5 | And hey, we'd like you to make it. |
| 0:55.6 | Paul poor. Paul now poor. No, he is rich, though. He is rich. He's very rich. He's very rich. He's dating Adelaide. He's dating. They're married. They're married. They're married. Yeah. They got married to Dale. Look at that. But Adam Silver said last week, you know what, LeBron, we'd like you to make a decision soon because we got to get the schedule finalized. And Rich Paul said, that ain't going to happen. Take a listen. I'll say it again. None of these people know anything. Nobody knows nothing. And I say that respectfully because we haven't made it to where anybody knows anything. So I think it's important for people to understand. |
| 1:29.9 | We're not making this about attention and a spectacle. |
| 1:34.5 | It's not about a decision or anything like that. |
| 1:37.6 | He has a choice to make. |
| 1:39.0 | He has a business choice to make. |
| 1:40.9 | We're not going to sit here and decide or allow someone else to decide when he |
| 1:45.2 | makes that decision or that choice. It's a business choice that he's making. And I think as an |
| 1:50.6 | athlete, why is it that an athlete has to rush his choice? Okay, I want to answer that. Because from a business |
| 1:56.5 | perspective, from a business perspective, you are making a choice between jobs, high-level jobs, |
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