Hour 2 - LeBron and the Lakers Deserve More Attention + NBC Sports NBA writer Kurt Helin
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam is in for Rob, and he and Chris discuss why teams like the Los Angeles Lakers and players like LeBron James get more media attention than others, debate the narrative that Nikola Jokic doesn’t get enough credit and discuss Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s assertion that he could’ve played in the NBA for 30 years if they had Load Management back in the day. Plus, NBC Sports lead NBA writer Kurt Helin swings by to discuss the media’s coverage of Jokic, the Boston Celtics’s chances of coming back from down 0-3 to the Miami Heat and much more!
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| 1:31.3 | keep it that way. And he from JJ Reddick, former NBA player who was a very good player and has |
| 1:40.5 | really become maybe an even better analyst and media personality. I love hearing him talk about |
| 1:48.1 | the NBA, but he was talking the other day on first take the show with our friend Steve, |
| 1:54.0 | Stephen A Smith. And he was kind of chastising the NBA and the NBA media and so on and so forth |
| 2:06.4 | for not promoting the Denver Nuggets and Nicola Yochich and that's why so many people are saying |
| 2:14.7 | I didn't know he was so good and oh my wow I underestimated him and I underrated him and so on |
| 2:22.3 | and so forth. Here's what JJ had to say. This is just the way that we have sold the NBA. |
| 2:29.2 | I don't love it. After game one of the Nuggets Lakers series, I was on a show, I was on |
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