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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington

Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Football, Baseball, News, Sports News, Basketball, Sports

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kelvin and a rotating cast of characters discuss the exhausting coverage of LeBron James’ free agency courtship, use Jordan Walker’s comments about getting more Black kids into baseball as a backdrop into a conversation about why American athletes refuse to play multiple sports at a young age, and discuss Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s assertion that Caitlin Clark being hailed as the Face of the WNBA is an ‘insult’ to the other players.

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0:32.3

Rich Paul has some things to say about you know who, Lamran James.

0:37.1

I mean, depending what time you catch him on your local podcast feed television show He's working it ain't he? His answer to what's going on with LeBron James might flip because you've heard USC Chris mentioned in the updates that hey Shams Sharani has spoke to Rich Paul and this decision's coming any minute now because we're all waiting with bated breath on where LeBron's going to take his talents to this time. And then you'll go on the Shannon Sharp podcast and say, I just want to be happy. He wants to be happy. He doesn't know when he's going to make a decision. And he's going to jump on a ES Sports Center and say, you know, winning a championship is not the thing that really matters to him. He just wants to be happy. And he's going to go another thing. He says, well, you know, he wants to be in the winning championship business.

1:12.1

That's what he really wants.

1:13.0

And so basically what to go another thing. He says, well, you know, he wants to be in the winning championship business.

1:12.1

That's what he really wants.

1:13.0

And so basically what it comes down to is either nobody knows anything or Rich Paul is really jumping through hoops to make you think that LeBron James hasn't made his decision. And he really has. So now we got reports that LeBron's decision is coming, that executives, GMs, and players are being asked to send phone voice messages to Rich Paul that he will then relay to LeBron James.

1:38.0

Yeah, exactly.

1:39.7

That Draymond Green is going to be taking, they're going to be hanging out together.

1:43.6

That's got to be reported.

1:44.5

And Draymond got to confirm down his own podcast.

1:46.2

They went golfing together and he made a pitch that was crazy.

1:49.1

So this whole LeBron James free agent situation is starting to feel eerily similar, if not even worse, than what we saw with the decision 16 years ago.

2:00.4

I'm going to scale it back.

2:01.5

I'm going to let that was a whole other thing because he was in his beginning of the peak of his powers at that point.

2:07.7

He had been an MVP and, you know, he was the guy then.

2:10.8

This isn't that.

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