Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Chris and Rob debate whether the Los Angeles Lakers can afford to ‘run it back’ next season for what could be LeBron James’ last year with the franchise, argue over Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani should be forced to participate in the Home Run Derby and debate if the Dallas Mavericks should be willing to give Kyrie Irving anything longer than a two-year contract.
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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 with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.6 | Rob, the Lakers who got to the conference finals in the West, but got swept by the champion, eventual champion, Denver Nuggets. |
| 0:45.4 | Rob Polinka there, GM, he of course yesterday comes out and introduces their two draft picks and also says, you what we go run it back we're going to |
| 0:57.7 | bring back austin reehachamura and de angelo russell he didn't say that but the reports have |
| 1:05.0 | said that and that's pretty much what it'll be and uh they'll look a lot like they looked |
| 1:10.6 | this past season at least after the trade deadline. |
| 1:14.8 | And they think that's enough to maybe get them to the finals or maybe even that elusive 18th NBA |
| 1:22.7 | championship. |
| 1:24.5 | Rob, do you agree with that? |
| 1:26.7 | Should the Lakers just run this thing back? |
| 1:30.0 | No way, no how. They're kidding themselves. If they really believe, Chris, that they're good to go |
| 1:39.8 | and they're going to win a championship or have a chance. I just don't see it. I really don't. I'm not going to take anything away from them. They made it to the Western Conference Finals. I don't know how you look at Denver, and I think that people question them all the way, and now they have a championship in their back pocket. They swept the Lakers. Some of the things that happened for the Lakers worked out good. |
| 2:01.7 | They had a great easy schedule at the end of the year that allowed them to get back into it. |
| 2:06.7 | They played Memphis, who was missing a couple players, had a couple terrible shooting nights. |
| 2:12.5 | The Warriors were undersized against the Lakers. |
| 2:16.7 | They played terribly on the road all year, Chris, |
| 2:20.6 | you know, with the Draymond Green thing and Jordan Poole. |
| 2:24.1 | And just it was the perfect thing for them. |
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