Straight Fire - Lakers on Life Support, NBA Playoffs Preview & More on the Russini-Vrabel Scandal
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Jason discusses whether or not LeBron James can put on the cape one last time to help the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers to upset the Houston Rockets in the frist round, why he’s still picking the San Antonio Spurs to make the NBA Finals, why on the Atlanta Hawks preferred to match up with the New York in round one, and his biggest takeaways from the ongoing scandal involving The Athletic NFL reporter Dianna Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. |
| 0:15.4 | What is up? |
| 0:16.2 | Straight Fire. |
| 0:17.0 | It's me, Jason McIntyre straight. Boyer. |
| 0:22.1 | For Tuesday, April the 14th, I'm back, baby. |
| 0:26.0 | Feels good to be back. |
| 0:27.4 | And oh my gosh, did I miss a lot? |
| 0:29.9 | Holy smokes. |
| 0:31.4 | You go away for, I don't know, eight days and you come back and the sports world is just buzzing. |
| 0:38.1 | So much to talk about. |
| 0:41.6 | Listen, this is a rough week for sports because there's no NFL draft yet. |
| 0:45.2 | That's next week. |
| 0:46.2 | No NBA playoffs. |
| 0:47.3 | That's not until Saturday. |
| 0:49.3 | And I'm not a huge golf guy. |
| 0:51.5 | I wasn't able to watch a Masters. |
| 0:53.0 | We were on a flight. |
| 0:54.3 | And I mean, I was texting with some people who we had taken some long shot. I did not have huge golf guy. I wasn't able to watch Masters. We were on a flight. And I mean, I was texting with some people who we had, you know, |
| 0:56.3 | taking some long shot. |
| 0:57.1 | I did not have any Rory. |
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