Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Rob discuss the report that Joel Embiid has eclipsed Nikola Jokic as the odds-on favorite to win the NBA MVP award and share their thoughts Kevin Durant’s assertion that Bronny James should play college basketball next season because the NCAA Tournament provides more exposure than these semi-pro leagues that have popped up recently. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss Embiid overtaking Jokic as the MVP favorite, the Los Angeles Lakers' decision to load manage Anthony Davis in a must-win game and much more!
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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 IHeart Radio app by searching FSR. |
| 0:26.4 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.6 | I said it when we talked to Eddie House just about 30 minutes ago that for the first time in a while, |
| 0:42.9 | we know roughly three to four weeks ago, ESPN did a story, a straw poll with 100 of the MVP voters. |
| 0:51.9 | Now, there's about 130 something. |
| 0:55.7 | 120, 130, somewhere around there. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm one of them. |
| 0:59.2 | I was not in the straw poll. |
| 1:01.3 | But of the 100 voters, and again, this was only three, four months ago, three, four weeks ago, |
| 1:09.3 | 77 of the 100 had Nicola Yolkich as the MVP. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, today, Vegas switched for the first time in a while. |
| 1:22.2 | I don't know when the last time was, but Yokic has been the favorite for a while. |
| 1:27.9 | Now today, for the first time, he was not the favorite. |
| 1:32.5 | It was instead Joel Embed. |
| 1:34.4 | It was Mbid minus 105, Yokic plus 150, Janus 3rd plus 350. |
| 1:42.7 | And Rob, like we said, Vegas is not the voters. |
| 1:46.2 | Okay. |
| 1:46.8 | So this doesn't mean that the voters have shifted. |
| 1:50.1 | Right. |
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