Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin tell us why the Los Angeles Lakers are doing the right thing by putting an expiration date on the LeBron James Era, debate whether we should be concerned about Cooper Flagg's inauspicious NBA Summer League debut, and take Patrick Mahomes to task for openly discussing the idea of the NFL moving to an 18-game regular season.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:08.1 | 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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| 0:23.7 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple. |
| 0:29.6 | Rob G., we're going to start with the Lakers, and there was some reporting done about LeBron not happy, panties in a bunch, you know, |
| 0:38.5 | with the way things are going on down at crypto.com arena. |
| 0:43.9 | Rob G., can you feel us in? |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, this seems to be boiling over in a big way here in La La Land. |
| 0:49.2 | Remember about a week ago, we had Brian Winhorst say on ESPN radio that, you know, the idea of LeBron not retiring with the Lakers is now more on the table than ever. He didn't say outright it was going to happen, but he said, you know, just don't slam the door on it anymore. A couple of days ago, Yovam Buha, friend of the show, longtime Lakers Insider, said that the relationship between the two sides is kind of salty at the moment. |
| 1:11.6 | It's a little frosty. |
| 1:12.6 | Two sides are not exactly sympathetico at the moment. |
| 1:15.7 | Well, today, ESPN.com, Ramona Shelburne and Brian Winhorst, again, put out a lengthy piece discussing what's going on with LeBron James and the Lakers brass. |
| 1:26.6 | And in summary, what they have determined is that LeBron is not happy that the team has really pivoted in a strong way towards Luca Donchich and his timeline and put LeBron's timeline on the back burner. |
| 1:41.0 | In fact, according to Shelburne and Winhorse, one of the things that LeBron is really upset about is that the Lakers did not offer him a contract extension prior to him opting into that $52 million for next season. So it wasn't right. He didn't have a choice to say, nah, I'm not going to do that. Let me decide what I'm going to do. |
| 2:01.0 | No, they said, no, no, no, you're good. You got a thing. Are you coming in? Okay, that's it? In fact, according to Shelburne and Winhorse, here's how they frame it in the story. If LeBron wanted the kind of Hollywood ending that only the Lakers can give ledges of the game, the release date has been set |
| 1:58.8 | Spring |
| 2:00.0 | 2026 only the Lakers can give ledges of the game, the release date has been set. Spring |
| 2:18.5 | 2006. And, Kelvin, I'm just going to say this. The Lakers are spot on. They are spot on. |
| 2:28.8 | This is not, you can't live in the past when it comes to sports. |
| 2:36.5 | You know, you fall in love with people or the Lakers did it with Kobe. |
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