Draymond vs Austin Rivers Gets Personal | Rob & Kelvin React
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington break down the escalating back-and-forth between Draymond Green and Austin Rivers and it got personal.
After Draymond took shots, Rivers fired back with a detailed critique of Draymond’s career that had Parker calling him his “new hero.” Kelvin, meanwhile, believes Draymond could be headed for an apology tour starting with his comments about Steve Kerr and continuing with Rivers.
Was Rivers disrespecting Draymond… or actually giving him respect while doing his job in the media? The guys unpack the tone, the truth, and what happens next in this growing NBA media feud.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Squirmish going on. |
| 0:07.0 | What's new? |
| 0:08.4 | All of these former athletes or athletes who want to be talking heads, the quote-unquote new media, |
| 0:16.2 | and everything is personal. |
| 0:17.6 | Everybody has their panties in a bunch. |
| 0:19.5 | Big bunch. |
| 0:20.0 | And we talk about it. This is why |
| 0:21.7 | very few guys who are really good at it, former athletes, but most of them are awful. And most of them |
| 0:27.8 | are going to be bad because they can't separate the person. You know what I mean? Like, |
| 0:32.4 | you just, they can't separate themselves from the idea that they used to be competitors with people and |
| 0:38.4 | they can't be genuine. You know who does a great job in that before we get to who isn't real quick. He's my favorite. Kevin Garnett, you feel me? Rebri feels me, Rob G. He can have a beef with you when he went to court. He's completely done. He'll say that person's amazing. He used to give me buckets or da-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 0:54.8 | He's not an old, |
| 0:56.6 | better our way or this way. |
| 0:57.8 | He's just... court, he is completely done. He'll say that person's amazing. He used to give me buckets. |
| 0:58.1 | Or da-da-da-da-da-da. He's just, he's not an old, it better our way or this way. He just, |
| 1:07.5 | he explains things so well. Now, you're going to get some curse words. And if you're thinking, you know, he's going to air it on, on radio or TV, but KG is great at that. He's kind of the opposite of what you're talking about. |
| 1:08.4 | But it's one of the few. |
| 1:09.9 | But it's too many the other way. I agree. |
| 1:10.2 | I agree. |
| 1:10.3 | Like even a guy like Shaq who should be on a different level where he can't even acknowledge Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I just, that just makes me my skin crawl. Rob G. I'm sorry. Yeah, they're calling this one, guys, the biggest conflict between a dark and a light skin since Drake and Kendrick Lamar. My God. Draymond Green and Austin Rivers, the beef we didn't know we needed. Who knew? Let me take you in the hot tub time machine just about a week ago. This is how it all started. Draymond Green said on his own podcast, unsolicited, that he believes his career trajectory might have been hindered by |
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