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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin explain why it’s unreasonable to suggest that LeBron James should be viewed as the NBA MVP at this point in the season, tell us how Kyrie Irving’s season-ending knee injury actually makes the Luka Doncic trade look even worse and explain why Shaquille O’Neal is crazy when he says Steph Curry belongs in the GOAT conversation.
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| 0:29.6 | Man, we were talking about it earlier, Rob. |
| 0:31.4 | Just the bad news. |
| 0:32.7 | Kyrie Irvin, we were watching it yesterday. |
| 0:34.2 | It goes down. |
| 0:35.6 | Torn ACL out for the season. |
| 0:38.2 | It's going to take anywhere from nine months to a year you know however it long it'll take him to recover and uh it just |
| 0:43.6 | really like I don't know if I was really trying to think of in recent sports history something |
| 0:52.1 | compounding itself so badly Rob you know what I mean? It just went from worse to worse to worse to worse. We wake up one day. We're all sitting there getting ready to actually take it back, getting ready to bed. And boom, the lucre tray happens. And that explodes and everybody's beyond shocked. And it's like, wait, what? The 25, five time I was getting dressed to go head out. Yeah, okay. |
| 1:11.7 | I was getting ready. |
| 1:14.5 | I think I probably had a 3-year-old in my chest getting ready to go to bed, different lives. And we're all blown away. Like, oh, my gosh, this trade is crazy. And then we kind of assessed the trade. And we go, okay, Anthony Davis is a heck of a player really good. But this is crazy. You just traded all world, 25-year-old for a 31-year-old perpetually injured. |
| 1:11.3 | This is crazy. |
| 1:12.8 | Then what happens? |
| 1:13.8 | AD gets... is crazy. You just traded all-world 25-year-old for a 31-year-old perpetually |
| 1:27.5 | injured. This is crazy. Then what happens, AD gets injured the first game. And it's |
| 1:33.7 | almost poetic in that he's playing well. He's bawling out. He's showing Mavs. Like, |
| 1:39.4 | this is who you got. I'm that guy. And he's literally doing that playing great. Boom, |
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