Best of The Week on The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rob and Kelvin debate whether LeBron James’ anti-Rings Culture sentiment is legitimate or just something he says to help boost his own legacy, tell us if it’s fair to compare Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jalen Williams to Scottie Pippen, and tell us if it’s imperative for sports figures and organizations like the Los Angeles Dodgers to speak up on social and political issues.
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| 0:29.5 | By this time next week, we will have a new champion. |
| 0:32.8 | We will have a new member of the Rings Club in basketball history. |
| 0:38.7 | Rings culture, of course, has been pervasive throughout sports media for about a decade |
| 0:44.6 | at least, maybe even longer than that. |
| 0:46.7 | And LeBron James in the latest episode of the Mind the Game podcast with Steve Nash was taking |
| 0:51.3 | some listener questions on the show. |
| 0:53.2 | One of them was, hey, LeBron, you got four rings. |
| 0:56.4 | Why don't you tell us your thoughts on rings culture? |
| 0:59.0 | Take a listen. |
| 0:59.5 | Funny, I don't know. |
| 1:00.8 | I don't know why I was discussed so much in our sport and why it's the A-L-B-all of everything. |
| 1:06.5 | You sit here and tell me, you know, Alan Iverson and Charles Barclay and Steve Nash, you know, you know, |
| 1:15.9 | you know, it wasn't unbelievable. |
| 1:19.0 | Like, oh, they can't be talked about or discussed with these guys is because this guy won one ring or won two rings or one. |
| 1:25.8 | Like it's just, it's just weird to me it's like |
| 1:27.9 | sam peyton manning can't be in the same room with brady or mahomes because he only |
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