Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin explain why they have a problem with the NBA’s new All-Star Game format, discuss the biggest institutional issues that are currently plaguing the NBA and tell us if the Atlanta Falcons should bench Kirk Cousins for rookie Michael Penix Jr (mere minutes before the team actually decided to bench Cousins).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:26.3 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.6 | So the NBA today announced the new All-Star game format, Rob G. |
| 0:41.8 | Please tell us about it because I got a headache just reading what they're going to do. |
| 0:47.8 | And then a very big star in the league spoke out against it. |
| 0:52.9 | That's right. |
| 0:53.5 | It's a new format and I don't blame me for not understanding it, Rob, because it's very convolutable, trying to get through the best we can. The 24 NBA All-Star selection, which is every year, are going to be divided up into three-eight-player teams. There's going to be a fourth team with the rising stars. We don't care about them, though. These teams are there going to be drafted general manager style by the TNT analyst, Charles Barkley, |
| 1:16.6 | Shaquille and Neil Candy Smith, the NBA guys are involved with it. |
| 1:19.8 | Two teams will meet in one semifinal. |
| 1:21.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:22.4 | The other two meet another semifinal. |
| 1:24.4 | The winning teams, they'll face each other for the championship. |
| 1:27.4 | And the way to win each game is you've got to score or surpass 40 points. So that was the news of the day. Earlier this afternoon, though, they asked Kevin Durant to share his thoughts. KD, KD, a perennial All-Star. Progressive All-Star format. Here's what he had to say. I hate it. I absolutely hate it. Terrible. All-star game, formats changing. All the formats, terrible, in my opinion. We should just go back to East West. I think we've been trying to bring that flare back somehow with the All-Star weekend. But I think we just keep a tradition. We'll see how this one works. You never know I might be wrong. I'm just |
| 2:03.5 | another guy with an opinion. |
| 2:07.2 | Hey, Kelvin. Yeah. Here we go. |
| 2:11.6 | Not only is this terrible Boulder Dash poppycock and all the other stuff I could say |
| 2:16.9 | and how awful this is set up. |
| 2:19.1 | But let me say this right here. |
| 2:23.3 | NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is the worst commissioner in sports. |
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