June 19, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin lament the fact that these NBA Finals still don’t have any real buzz as the Oklahoma City Thunder find themselves on the brink of a championship, share their thoughts on the latest nepotism hire in the NBA, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Eddie House swings by to discuss all the biggest NBA Finals headlines.
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Wow, say my name Parker, say his name kelvin Washington,
and we are indeed the Odd Couple on this Juneteenth, right,
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I'll yeah, yeah, that's.
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Yes, that's the number. I just thought when you ben
Madle Camp, I thought Aaron was about this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come up to I to say anything about Aaron.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, you did? What do you mean you literally did yesterday?
Ro I'm just saying a little got a little nervous.
You and Richard Jefferson have to relax talking about people's wives.
Saw that out here in these streets we met, uh,
Rob G.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Didn't we meet Kendrick Perkins's wife?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Rob G?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You remember she was in the studio with him one time? Right,
I remember that?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And we go straight to another wife. This is unprecedented.
I'm just saying, all right, and as always, you know what,
remember sweety Beati beaty, sweet ee beat beat Sweetie.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
The odd couple was filmed in front of a live audience.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Sweetie Betty, all right, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
My co host she is Calvin Washington.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Something man, I can't tell if the the ancestors happy,
like wow, look at these two brothers getting to work
and have amazing careers, or they mad that we're working
on Juneteenth right now.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, No, it's one. They're not mad that we'll work.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I gave us to options and we got as easy
a radio show games making sure we do that. You
know that that is the right way to look at it.
That's how I look at it. I mean, let's not
kid ourselves. When Chris and I got this show originally,
there had never been two black guys where nobody was
a former athlete.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I hear you like that that was disrespectful to yourselves
that y'all were athletes too.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, no, no, but you know what I mean. Professional,
That's what I mean. Don't disrespect yourself, you know, but
you know what I mean, I do. I want to
make sure because and that that meant a lot so
to me. And it was ridiculous to think that twenty yeah,
twenty eight, right, Rob gr that that never happened before.
It sounds crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, So the show a lot of people, can you know,
some people will say, because now that we have this
two brothers doing it again, the show is about to
be really black and he black, yes, and on his
shoone teeth, they could be worried.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Rob, Now you're trying to run off all the.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Listeners we have No, I was saying, So people might
be worried, like as juneteen Robbing Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It might just you know, they were just a little
nervous right now.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you the
best though. Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live, not X.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I remember that, You've got to It's so crazy the
white man cam. It's like crazy, crazy and all this,
and then the open of it is like, not X.
He's so black. He urinates Oil. I just saw it, like,
oh my god, who wrote that?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Chris Rock? Probably he's probably exactly who that's that is
that has Chris Rock written all over.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It urinates Oil. I just I'll never forget that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's where you go with that, by the way, not
your Jordan's uh pull over? Zip up sweet? That might
be top three. I'm very happy with this. Yes, all right,
let's welcome in the Odd Couple crew. I've got another
black person. Welcome in.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You're about to say his name right now, Robbie producer.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, oh, we we're just heading out the black cars today.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, I'm saying rob he is an honorary like a.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Black roommate, doesn't make him fly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm a black niece and nephew too, and he knows
every Morris Chestnut film, Mike Epps Mike film. That's honorary status.
That's not full on. I'm at all the cookouts, you know.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I got people on the YouTube channel commenting on videos
that I've never seen Robb's face before.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He don't look like what I expected them. Then finish
the line, what they thought you were black?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, they thought I was the blackest dude in these streets.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That's like showing from Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, remember when when I shook when I when I
showed them the picture, they could.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Not What do you say? Including me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Alex, you remember that too, when shown from Sacramento.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
When I heard his voice, I was expecting force with
no First of all, why is he sixty five?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I was in the restaurant when I went to at
the like I had you walk right by him.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
He came up to me. He said, rob You said
excuse me, and I said, hey, how you doing? I'm sewing?
I said, Sean who showing from Sacramento? I said, oh yeah,
let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
How to walk right by him?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I did not know? Yeah, Alex is I injured.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The Manti Bolanos is at the anchor desk yeah, and uh,
I believe Elijah is working.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Heard of him Elijah one day, Alex, you gotta let.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Him slide and so so now Elijah's even working all
of us. All right, Uh, we got a great show
in store for you today, rob G.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Set the table, but we're united right now. We'll see
it up for you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Can you tee it up there? I'm still trying to
get used to saying can you tee it up?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's right, guys.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Game six, potential close eye game for the Thunder tipping
off in about ninety minutes. Everybody's excited about it, we think,
or so we've been told, but maybe not the casual
NBA fan because we've been talking about this for weeks now,
and these NBA Finals unless you are a die hard
basketball fan just have not rated in any kind of way,
(07:19):
shape or form.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
No matter how you fudge the numbers.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Because you know, the other thing is, we haven't had
an NBA press release since that one. We had another
one like you remember when they came out trying to
diffuse the game because what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But the viewers eighteen to thirty four and what the
young said.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Since then, we haven't seen anything. They couldn't even do that.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
So, guys, through five games in this series, the Finals
are averaging just over nine million viewers on ABC. That's
down nineteen percent from last year's Finals, which ended in
five games were called. Boston was up three to zero
in that series, so that one was even. But there's
no reason for people to watch, right, So that would
(07:59):
make this series outside of the bubble by far the
lowest rated in the Nielsen era. And here's the worst
part about it, guys, this year's NBA Finals is the
first time that Nielsen has this expanded out of his
own viewing measurement, which said never used.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It used to be there are people at sports bars
that don't count, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
So now they're including that, and it's still low and
it's still the worst outside of the bubble in NBA history.
Of guys, to make it even worse, especially tonight, Monty
mentioned Tyres Halliburn has banged up his CAP's giving a
lot of problems. He's gonna give it a go, but
he's clearly limited. All signs points are okay, see big
Ley tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And here here's why this is the worst case scenario.
Just what Monty said, like, it's worse. We started small
market uh players that people don't know, like the casual
right the names. We know him if you follow basketball
and you watch the NBA. But SGA A Halliburnon, they
(09:02):
did not household name. So that was number two. Number three.
If SGA, who had this incredible season and is the
MVP and can't get people juiced up, offered like what
season and what would he have to do to get
people jacked up about him? Is what I'm saying, Like
(09:24):
this was the year you're coming out party.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
People should know who you are.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And then the Kicker is the one guy who made
Indiana viable with all the great shots and moments of
this twenty five twenty twenty five postseason. Now he's not
even really available for the biggest game, which is to
try to force a Game seven, and then who knows
(09:48):
if he'd be able to play. That's why this is
the worst case scenario. Everything is bad for the NBA.
Small markets not having the big marquee names as far
as play your MVP and star for one team, people
really don't know despite all he's accomplished this year.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And lastly, the hero of the.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Postseason is now banged up and can't be himself. It
is the worst case.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, I think sometimes things are coming right down the pipeline.
There's nothing you can do about it. It's an inevitability.
And when you got Lebron and Luca lock kicked out,
not only their names but also the name of which
we just spent time talking about yesterday because they were
sold for ten billion dollars, the Lakers. When you're going, okay,
least we have the rainning champs. They should do their part,
they should get to fights. Okay, at least we'll have
(10:38):
a big mark, bigger market in Boston, and then we'll
have the reigning chance for that storyline, a legacy and
blue Blood and the Celtics. They get kicked out, and
then you're all right, well, shoot, maybe there's a long shot.
Jimmy Butler now a Warrior and they've been playing very
well with him. Boom, they get knocked out. So the
star power having Steph and Jimmy and Draymond has gone
in familiarity of the Warriors. So this is one of
those things. It was coming down the pipeline. We saw
(10:59):
it coming. You and I had discussions about it and
now here we are. But if you're the NBA, A
couple of things to know. One, you've been here before.
You've had you know, the seasons where we talked about it.
You beat it up to nauseum, you keep bringing it up.
The Spurs have been in you know, some of the
three lowest rated finals. You know, you had the nets,
you had. So it happens where you get these finals
(11:19):
that are down, people aren't watching, and then hopefully you
bounce back with something good, something juicy. And I think
what also is in favor Number one, you got the
Lakers being sold because now maybe the Lakers are able
to do some things, which being some juice. Secondly, well,
I mean that's what the that's what that ownership has done,
you know that, you know. Covering the Dodgers also, I
(11:40):
think they have come become where some of the real
juice like other sports like soccer or football as the
world calls it, Uh, it's some of the movement of
stars that you're blown away or moving. NFL every now
and again you get some big stars moving a quarterback
or two there the move and you're like, oh, shoot,
Aaron Rodgers. The talk of the summer and to see
where he ends up now with the Steelers. So if
(12:00):
Giannis gets out there, if KD starts to becoming the
move and becomes a spur or a rocket, I think
that is where they also get some juice during the offseason.
So I think the NBA has also become where now
the movement of big time players adds a little bit
of flair and juice to the summer. But as far
as his finals, yeah, I mean there's nothing you can do.
(12:21):
SGA has been in the top what two to three
finals MVP picks finalists the last few years till he
fining won it. This year. You got a team that's
an all time defensive team, an all time point differential team.
But the thing that hurts and you really continue. You
can look at it as if this were John Morant,
if this were Anthony Edwards. As far as young guys,
(12:42):
the difference is they play above the rim each night.
You're saying, I may see something you hardly see jumping
literally jumping over guys, dunking on them. Or Edwards, He's
shot he more threes than anybody in the NBA. He
goes nine to ten into three point from the three
point line, something that spectacular, something. You know, he's jawing people,
he's talking smack with fans. There's something to it, SGA.
(13:05):
It works to the disadvantage that he's the model of consistency.
You're just gonna get thirty points every night, quietly, some
mid range jump shots, some free throws, good defense, no issues,
no arguing with the refs. I'm gonna go about my business.
And that is great for him. It's gonna get him
a bunch of money. He's gonna make him in All
NBA several times over. But for the fans and for
the juice, you don't get anything with that. And Haler
(13:26):
Burton is inconsistent, too inconsistent to be that superstar because
during the regular season he dissipateed. He disappeared in the
regular season for twenty games because he's just you know,
eighteen and six and that's nothing spectacular about that until
this postseason run. So yeah, this is you didn't hope
for it, but you hope that you get the bounce
back next season and that the summer is interesting with
(13:46):
trades and free agency.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Good look, I hear you with all that, but it's
still about market size and people are regionalized people in
New York once the Knicks got knocked out, not interested
people in Boston like this is a reality. If you
don't have anybody who's really compelling, that's that's the issue.
I mean, we can sit here and go like, oh
I love ball, Okay, batt it's the square gun. Don't
(14:09):
don't I know Nick fans because I'm friends from people
in New York, they're not watching.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They're not after the Knicks got knocked out, they were
totally turned on.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It was it was their team that lost you that
team and.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
They like, I'm not I can't watch, you know what
I mean, And you wind up losing people.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Tough it's a tough and we kind of it's nothing.
There's nothing you can do. You try. Like they're interviewing
Mike Epps as we speak, because he's the biggest Indiana
Pacer fan aging muster up. If this were the Knicks,
can you imagine all the you know, all the fans
they have, all the stars, so let you can be
juiced up. Who look at all the people there and
all of that. This is the best we got, is
Mike Epps all right?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the phone number?
Where is?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Where's the juice for these NBA Finals? Has this been
the worst case scenario for the league and we laid
on out a lot of stuff to not go right.
We'll continue that conversation next with you. It is the
Odd Couple eight seven, seven, nine, nine sixty three sixty nine.
It is the Odd Couple again on Fox Sports Radio.
And you know what you need to do, Alex.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What's not wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
This is for you, just me and.
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You tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Rom stick and stay because I've learned Rob.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's just all about the perspective in the US of
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Speaker 2 (15:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Speaker 4 (15:33):
We are the Odd Couple on this Juneteenth TV theme
song Thursday Happy juneteen too.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You we got Eddie House coming up here in about
five six minutes or so. Got a very special TV
theme So all game show nice. I love it. By
the way, you I gave you a shot out on
my TV show. No, you did not, all did they
cancel the show. It was crazy. They said, don't come
in tomorrow. No, I never missed Speakstrom News one. You
wow in he did it game show type and then
(16:01):
shout out to my guy Quinton Brooks. He has a
game show called What's the Hook? And you would love it?
You for you say very formally, almost like in a
British type way of something. And then you have to
guess the hook from the song, and one of them
was You're never gonna guess the.
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Golden Gholst things. Yes see, I'm just fair.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And it goes and I wish that you would know
that our acquaintanceship and dead. And I go, thank you
for me and it was it. And then me and
Tim Parker, who you know, we're going crazy and I
say shout out to Rob Parker. He knows why, so
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Speaker 4 (16:55):
All right, let's go Shell in Orlando. You're on the
couple Foxports to Radio. What's up?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Shell?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Not too much, man, I appreciate it and honestly love
y'all show listening all the time. But I just want
to remind you that y'all, y'all obviously got naturally syndicated
show you're being listening to by thousands and thousands of
the NBA fans and consumers from all around the country.
I'm not trying to point fingers, but I do want
to remind you that I think y'all have like a
sacred responsibility to like create and promote the product on
(17:23):
the floor. And so, like my biggest complaint with the
NBA media is y'all like cannibalize. It's it's you never
hear like NFL like down talking the product on the field.
And so for you guys, when you ask, like where's
the juice with like this current finals right now, I
just want to say, like y'all get to create those storylines.
Y'all get to promote that and talk about that and
hype it up instead of like tearing it down and
(17:45):
so like it's but it becomes self fulfilling prophecy at
a certain point. And unless I'm like completely misreading.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
It, like Shell, here here's the issue.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Okay, I hear you, and and I think here's where
where you're misguided. Because Shell, if there were a buzz
and numbers, we couldn't have that narrative. There would be
no conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Shell.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
They're not like the numbers are in the middle or
are okay but not great. These are all time lowest
rating numbers. It would be like a house being on
fire and not covering the fire.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Shell, do you understand, like like it's all time low?
This is it's a story, Like that's a story that's
no There's.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
No way you can go on about this and act
like it's not the all time worst, the worst since COVID.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
I hear that.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
I think I think the problem is that this is
not just a twenty four to twenty five season issue.
This has been growing and growing and growing. So every
single year, NBA media only wants to talk about the
big names in the big cities and all these small
market teams get crapped on. You never hear that in NFL.
Nobody's down talking Cincinnati, Buffalo, Kansas City like nobody down
talks to these teams like man like Goddell would lose
(18:59):
his mind if the NFL media will Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So no, I hear your point A couple couple of things.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
All I've said is I've been rooting for the Pacers
to win.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I picked the pace, and I think, and I think
what I would add to that. Part of the reason
we caught this conversation because we're confused though on SGA
is doing everything right? What a team player, MVP, a
baller only putting up numbers that Jordan has. Why aren't
people watching? And let's make it. I personalize it. I've
told you guys person in our chats and I've said
it on the air. You guys know how I am
(19:28):
about basketball. I'm basketball nut. That's just my thing. But
then so are my friends. The guys that I've been
talking to about NBA and basketball since I was eight
nineteen years old, not a single one of them have
texted me. And that has never happened in my life,
and so that warrants the question of why, what is missing,
what's different? So I don't think it's a talking down.
It to trying to figure out what the confusion is.
(19:49):
Why is this the case?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is what I'm at, And that's fair because you're used
to getting stuff art squeeze in. Another one is that
Josh from is that Idaho Falls?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yes? I do, Yes, what's up, Josh?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Guys, third time caller.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Appreciate that Josh would.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Yeah, Josh, Yeah. So I a couple of things for you.
So I don't think so I get the viewser down.
But to me, I'm a true basketball fan that just
loves the game and this is some of the best
basketball I've seen in a long time. So for me,
I love me some great defense. I love that the stars.
(20:36):
I love the SGA is just a good dude and
Jay Will, they're.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Just good dudes.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
That those are the people that I want my sons
to watch and model their behavior after, because they're good
people that are doing the right things for the right reason.
And that doesn't get clicks. But at the end of
the day, they got me to be a big fan.
So that's all I got to.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Say, Josh, real quick, and I think you'll appreciate, Josh.
I appreciate the call too. One thing is similar to
caller before. I think it's not fair, is Roger. You
can be the testament, obviously you Rob sitting next to me.
I've set up here and said, I think we're looking
at the model of the new NBA. You look at
the Pacers deep eight nine, ten deep, bunch of different
(21:18):
guys playing, and look at the defensive effort, look at
the camaraderie, the almost college like style in which the
Thunder play. I've sang their praises, but for us to
have one segment where we're going, hey, well, what's up,
what's going on here? And you know, as if we,
I specifically even me, have been talking about how great
this is and how good they are, and I think
they I just said it that day. You and I
have got a debate. I said, I think they're gonna
(21:39):
have a five six year run the Thunder of winning
possibly two or three. So I don't want to I
don't want it to be as if we haven't set
up here and talked about how good basketball is.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But I'll push back even further and real quick. I
know we got Eddie House gripping up in an update.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Dude, I've been sitting in the last ten years where
all people talk about Baseball's guys sell seventy million tickets
and all they talk about TV rating.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I can't am I right, that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But they sell seventy million tickets. The stadium is a pack.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You know that you're at Dodger Stadium packed, and all
they talk about is all the ratings on television about baseball.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
So baseball's going through it now.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
The ratings have taken a rebound in baseball and they're
going up. That's what's so weird about the NBA is
going down in a time where where baseball is going up.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And I will be that's listen. Baseball caught some some
heat for a while. That's why they changed the game.
Let's not act they didn't speed up the pitch clack
that they didn't try to, you know, shorten the games
and then to have the line shift.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The ratings went up.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The ussis on like that wasn't a conversation too. And
it's the thing. Listen, by the way, if you don't
think this is happening with your favorite restaurant, meaning they're
going behind the scenes. Why the numbers that? Why is
that one state, one location? It always does big? Now
what's going? How do we shift? What do we need
to do? That's why Pepsi or Coke changes their can
every two years. It's the same product for you to man,
(23:01):
you know what, I guess I will have a Pepsi
today because they switched the can on me. Sorry, I digress.
Eddie House on the way, we'll talk some finals with
him in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm Eastern,
four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's The Odd Couple Robin Kelvin on a juneteenth edition
of TV Things on Thursday, joined now by our guy,
Eddie House, NBA Champion, NBC Sports Boston, Fox Sports Radio,
Emmy winner and Ain't never been dumped Eddie? What's up man?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
What's happening? What's happening? Happy Jones thinks.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's right, hayday brother, And what's you up to?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What's going on? You're getting ready for this game.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yeah, I'm getting ready for this game. I'm in New
York right now. I'm gonna get on FS one tomorrow
on the breakfast Ball. I was on it this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I never missed the breakfast Ball.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Very nice, You never missed the breakfast Ball?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yes, exactly, all right, Halliburton playing. Do they need him
to play, Eddie? Or could he inspire them?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know what I mean? Like, what what are you
expecting out of him? Is it just that he's out
there trying to help out or does he have to
actually compete, play and do something in order for them
to win.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I think he has to play. He's been the driving force,
the head of the snake for that team all season long,
whether it be him being aggressive scoring or being uh
the guy that is the closer, or being a guy
that sets the table for everybody else. And that usually
comes off of his aggressions that he has when he's
(24:45):
starting off being aggressive and attacking and scoring the basketball,
which opens up everything for everybody else. So I just
want to see how he's gonna be on that leg.
You know, those cast injuries are very very very very
tricky to deal with because that can lead to Achilles
and God willing that that does not happen to him.
(25:12):
But at the same time, once you get out there,
we don't want to hear no excuses.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, and he's out there too. And listen, we've seen
some all time great games from guys who've been nicked up,
injured a little bit, and they played in the series.
I'm looking at this, Well, let's say he's good enough
to go and is gonna give him thirty thirty five minutes,
he still have to be has to be aggressive. One
of the numbers that I've seen the stats that I
was amazing to me. When he scores twenty or more,
they're eight to zero in this postseason Eddie, And so
(25:38):
he's gonna have to be more aggressive. He's aggressive. Isn't
the same as a Kevin durantor stephf He doesn't have
to take thirty shots, but he definitely has to be
more aggressive to me, for in order for them to
have a shot, do you expect them to kind of
play a little bit more? TJ McConnell, though, who played
well in Game five.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You know what, I think. I think that's like a
coach and feel because if if he's able to go
out there and play well right and not have any
kind of you don't see any kind of laboring or
anything like that. And he's aggressive and he's putting pressure
on the defense. I think you can you could. You
gotta rock with what you gotta rock with because this
(26:16):
do or die at this particular point, you know what
I mean. So you can't say, hey, man, I'm gonna
go out with PJ McConnell if I see that, my
faith in my franchise is out here rocking.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, Eddie, I want to ask you a question about
Ace Bailey.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Did you see that story we were talking about him tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I think right, But but Eddie that basically he canceled
on the seventy six y and he doesn't want to
play in Utah, And I just I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
That that is like what would be coming.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Out considering what happened with Shador and all that, and
just the idea like teams aren't playing around with people
when there and there's a lot of money at stake.
We just saw what happened in Dallas right where they
just they.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
They Willie Luca was doing his own thing.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They weren't happy about it, and they just weren't going
to commit to one hundred and fifty million dollars to
them or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Are you surprised that that.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Would come out of a kid's camp these days, that
he don't want to play here and he's not going
to this workout.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
It's surprising because when you could go up your stock
by going to work out somewhere else unless a team
and the agents knows that you have no shot of
being there, but you have a You always have a shot.
When you have a shot, you know what I mean.
If you don't shoot your shot, you can't have a
(27:43):
shot right right.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You can't score on any points if you're not shooting
right exactly.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
So my thing is, I don't know how that I
don't know. Man, it's a weird story because if the
people that you are around or allowing you to do
certain things, then you got to look at them and say,
are you holding me back or do you know something
that I don't know? Do you know that I'm guaranteed
(28:09):
to be at this spot and they say that I'm
going to go there. If they say that, okay, cool,
then that's what we're going. But if you don't know
and it's up in the air, and then all of
a sudden that situation becomes a cancerous, for a lack
of a better word, situation to where all of a sudden,
now everybody's looking at you like, oh, I don't know
(28:32):
if your camp is cool, I don't know what kind
of person you are, and then it drops your stock.
So I think you have to show up just to
show who you are and that you are a representative
of not only yourself, your family and what you're doing
and how you do it, to make sure that somebody
could say, hey, man, we believe in you and we
(28:54):
want you.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, Eddie House, you also don't want to alienate people,
am I right? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Like if you must, yeah, you'd be like, oh I
don't know if we want this kid.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, and we're gonna talk more about it. So I'm
saving kind of some of my points still tomorrow. But
I mean, he you act like you Lebron are just
an obvious shock, you know, in ninety two ninety three,
like whereas just the clear cut like all right, notes
relaxed a little bit. I want to ask you this.
We got the new ownership group, which is obviously familiar.
Mark Walter has been a part owner of the Lakers,
(29:24):
and but now he is the majority owner and also
part of the Dodgers owner of the Dodgers as well.
What does ownership what role do they play when when
Eddie House is on the team, you're with the Heat,
you're with the Celtics, you're with the whoever, what's that like?
What's the relationship and when you did you have good
ownership where you felt it and did you have bad
where you felt that as well and affected as the team?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Well, the worst ownership I ever had was Donald Sterling. Uh,
that was like probably the worst ownership that ownership owner
that I ever played for. We didn't have or we
didn't have any food on the plane. We didn't have
food before practice or after practice. We played. Uh, we
practiced at a junior college. The showers didn't work, so
(30:06):
we came here cleaned, left with a funky ass.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
This is the truth. No food on the planes. We
was you know, God's eating Popeyes. Now imagine I'm coming
from Miami, which is ran by Mickey Harrison, and you know,
Pat Riley was the coach at the time, and it
was a one professional We had food before practice, We
had got a chef that would make omelets every single
morning for you or whatever you want it, and then
(30:35):
we would have lunch afterwards. We had our own plane.
Uh you know, food on the plane. And so going
from that my first three years and then going to
so that's great ownership. Then going to what I dealt
with for one year and with the Clippers was like
(30:57):
a culture shock. And mind you we practic is at
Southwest Junior College. Now you literally had to drive through
every single hood like I'm not getting I.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Know that we're out here and that we know where
it is.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, you had to really go through everything. So and
then go into the Boston Tels ownership, it's fantastic. You know,
Wick was amazing, PAGs was amazing, everybody that was involved
in in the ownership, you know, Rich Climbing that, everybody,
(31:29):
every everybody is amazing over there. And so you know,
seeing the two different spectrums, you know what I mean,
and being caught at the back end with the Clippers
ownership means everything because they make you comfortable and feel
comfortable on what you need to be doing. And that's
the most important thing is that you want your players
(31:52):
to feel as comfortable as possible. So they could play
their best.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, that makes sense, absolutely makes sense. All right, Eddie Man,
we got a bail in pre shit it as always man,
enjoy game six tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
All right, right on, Pete, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Eddie House right there, Eddie House Underscore fifty. You want
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Speaker 1 (32:31):
Kevin, you know this, I'm gonna take a stab at
it Newlyweds. No, it's a game show, because that's what
we're It's not a game show.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
It is a game show.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Oh, you just hit me with the buzz. Okay, you
know what Quin said. I know the host's name, but
now I'm blanking on the name of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well give me the host name. That might help me.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Monty Hall.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh, definitely deal.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let's make a deal. Yeah, yes, let's make a deal
with Monty Hall.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Many Hall. It's see hot cover Rob Parker Kevin Washington
on a June teenth TV Themes on Thursday theme song,
specifically our game shows. So there you have it, this
one right here. Let's make a deal. All right, and
it is time now far I'm gonna be doing a
game show voice. It's time out far Shekel.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
City two Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
daily Dicks against the spread.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
All right, how'd you do? You gotta get on the runk.
It's like over three one and two and it's been
a rough go for man.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Okay, I'm not even trying the truck.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Okay, here we go. Let's start with at least start
with a one h oh and three live Hello Darkness,
Rob's old friend.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I was one sixty three, went sixty six, Rob Sterling.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Junior, Come on, Sterling, here we go.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You own a team Giants best bet minus one and
a half runs against the Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco
Cardinals minus.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
One and a half runs. There were oh, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It was six to one, six six. You said, I
turned around like that six six?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was am I right? We just what was six
to one a minute ago?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
It's six to six. Now, brother, unbelievable. I'm like, what, hello,
darkness already for tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And now I'm mad too, because the Pirates.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I had the Pirates plus two and a half, right, yeah, right,
you're all right. No, that was Game one that the
Tigers won nine to two, scored to two down.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And you know what what was the score that Cardinals
game Game one?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Because if they had doubleheaders, I gotta check that one,
all right.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Because that would have been for game one.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, both were game one, all right?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Anyway, Shekel City Pirates plus two and a half chance already, Yes,
the best bet was the.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Giants minus one and a half.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who. I'm your dag, alright, You ain't telling me
who to bet on?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Bet up with?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
All right, all right, man, it's signed out for the
tirereck play the day.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One all pitch to wood swing, a high flying wall,
center field deep that goes Hilliard to the warning track
at the wall.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
It's gone, James, what doesn't listen to the line, Mary's over.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Net swin at four to three, he puts it on
the batter's high hill with a soaring home run.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
The straightaway center field.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Are they boing note that your they had lost eleven
in a row.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That was a low cheer. They're like, oh yeah, and
that's your man too, James with he MLB bro yet.
Have you had a chance to talk with him? Of course, yeah,
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it briefly, there's another NEPO hiring rob Gi Huh SAT's right,
Steve Kerr's son Nick. I'm never gonna say his first
and last name back to get together, but he has
(36:20):
been hired now definitely, not on juneteen, Definitely, not on juneteenth,
not never.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
He is the new assistant coach for the Golden State
Warriors entry next season. Just a quick background on Nicholas Kerr.
I don't know his real name is Nicholas. Nicholas Kerr's
coaching career, he served as a grad assistant for University
of California, Berkeley. In twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
he was an intern for the Spurs, and after that
(36:46):
he spent the next three seasons working in the Warriors
player development and video department, and the previous three seasons
he's been the head coach for the Warriors G League team.
Now he gets a call up to the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Rob Parker, I.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Know I'm against nepotism. I've told you this is a
thousand time. I don't care who it is. And there's
nothing wrong with his son getting into coaching. He shouldn't
be working for the Warriors. Let him go out and
get a job at one of the other organizations. Seriously,
that's my only issue, not that he wants to follow
on his dad's footsteps. Doug Gottlieb on this radio network, Right,
(37:23):
his father was a longtime coach.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It's in their family, that's their family business.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I always say, my family business is the barbershop business.
My nephew owns two barbershops New York and Virginia Beach
and you know I own barbershops and I have one
still in Detroit, so that's our family business, you know,
So that's not what I'm against. And if I was there,
I would ask him, if I was at the press conference,
Steve Kerr, where are you on nepotism? Is that a
(37:50):
good thing to be able to hire your family, you know,
and jobs and you know, maybe cut off the opportunity
for other people. And how many people were really interviewed
for this position and how were they fully evaluated when
they were up against you?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Was it just hurry of get this done so we
can get to no signs?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I think, by the way, I actually no. I think
he would be the I actually would want to hear
his response because he's so well thought out type of person.
He might fight out just say you know, hey, look man,
you know one of my things was to get my
son to this position so he could be a part
of us. And you know, he might reference something like
we see with Lebron or other coaches we've seen, or
(38:29):
Bill Belichicker. He seems like the type of whether you
like the answer or not, he would answer it well
thought out and honestly what.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I would really want to know, like what was then
interview process, how many other people were up for the job,
and where were their experience level.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Compared to your son when when?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
When I was in Detroit, I used to ask Rod
Marinelli all the time, are you going to fire your
son in law?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Like I would ask him in the press conference.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
What would he say, He's letting to swing on now,
Steve Kirk, gonna swing on you.
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Wow, say my name Parker, say his name kelvin Washington,
and we are indeed the Odd Couple on this Juneteenth, right,
and you're also need.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'll yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
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Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, that's the number. I just thought when you ben
Madle Camp, I thought Aaron was about this.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Come up to I to say anything about Aaron.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
No, you did? What do you mean you literally did yesterday?
Ro I'm just saying a little got a little nervous.
You and Richard Jefferson have to relax talking about people's wives.
Saw that out here in these streets we met, uh,
Rob G.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Didn't we meet Kendrick Perkins's wife?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Rob G?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You remember she was in the studio with him one time? Right,
I remember that?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And we go straight to another wife. This is unprecedented.
I'm just saying, all right, and as always, you know what,
remember sweety Beati beaty, sweet ee beat beat Sweetie.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
The odd couple was filmed in front of a live audience.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Sweetie Betty, all right, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
My co host she is Calvin Washington.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Something man, I can't tell if the the ancestors happy,
like wow, look at these two brothers getting to work
and have amazing careers, or they mad that we're working
on Juneteenth right now.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, No, it's one. They're not mad that we'll work.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I gave us to options and we got as easy
a radio show games making sure we do that. You
know that that is the right way to look at it.
That's how I look at it. I mean, let's not
kid ourselves. When Chris and I got this show originally,
there had never been two black guys where nobody was
a former athlete.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I hear you like that that was disrespectful to yourselves
that y'all were athletes too.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
No, no, no, but you know what I mean. Professional,
That's what I mean. Don't disrespect yourself, you know, but
you know what I mean, I do. I want to
make sure because and that that meant a lot so
to me. And it was ridiculous to think that twenty yeah,
twenty eight, right, Rob gr that that never happened before.
It sounds crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, So the show a lot of people, can you know,
some people will say, because now that we have this
two brothers doing it again, the show is about to
be really black and he black, yes, and on his
shoone teeth, they could be worried.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Rob, Now you're trying to run off all the.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Listeners we have No, I was saying, So people might
be worried, like as juneteen Robbing Kelvin.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It might just you know, they were just a little
nervous right now.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Now, I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you the
best though. Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live, not X.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I remember that, You've got to It's so crazy the
white man cam. It's like crazy, crazy and all this,
and then the open of it is like, not X.
He's so black. He urinates Oil. I just saw it, like,
oh my god, who wrote that?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Chris Rock? Probably he's probably exactly who that's that is
that has Chris Rock written all over.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It urinates Oil. I just I'll never forget that.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's where you go with that, by the way, not
your Jordan's uh pull over? Zip up sweet? That might
be top three. I'm very happy with this. Yes, all right,
let's welcome in the Odd Couple crew. I've got another
black person. Welcome in.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You're about to say his name right now, Robbie producer.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, oh, we we're just heading out the black cars today.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, I'm saying rob he is an honorary like a.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Black roommate, doesn't make him fly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I'm a black niece and nephew too, and he knows
every Morris Chestnut film, Mike Epps Mike film. That's honorary status.
That's not full on. I'm at all the cookouts, you know.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
I got people on the YouTube channel commenting on videos
that I've never seen Robb's face before.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
He don't look like what I expected them. Then finish
the line, what they thought you were black?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, they thought I was the blackest dude in these streets.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
That's like showing from Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yes, remember when when I shook when I when I
showed them the picture, they could.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Not What do you say? Including me?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Alex, you remember that too, when shown from Sacramento.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
When I heard his voice, I was expecting force with
no First of all, why is he sixty five?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I was in the restaurant when I went to at
the like I had you walk right by him.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
He came up to me. He said, rob You said
excuse me, and I said, hey, how you doing? I'm sewing?
I said, Sean who showing from Sacramento? I said, oh yeah,
let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
How to walk right by him?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I did not know? Yeah, Alex is I injured.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
The Manti Bolanos is at the anchor desk yeah, and uh,
I believe Elijah is working.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Heard of him Elijah one day, Alex, you gotta let.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Him slide and so so now Elijah's even working all
of us. All right, Uh, we got a great show
in store for you today, rob G.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I don't want to say.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Set the table, but we're united right now. We'll see
it up for you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Can you tee it up there? I'm still trying to
get used to saying can you tee it up?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's right, guys.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Game six, potential close eye game for the Thunder tipping
off in about ninety minutes. Everybody's excited about it, we think,
or so we've been told, but maybe not the casual
NBA fan because we've been talking about this for weeks now,
and these NBA Finals unless you are a die hard
basketball fan just have not rated in any kind of way,
(07:19):
shape or form.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
No matter how you fudge the numbers.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Because you know, the other thing is, we haven't had
an NBA press release since that one. We had another
one like you remember when they came out trying to
diffuse the game because what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But the viewers eighteen to thirty four and what the
young said.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Since then, we haven't seen anything. They couldn't even do that.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
So, guys, through five games in this series, the Finals
are averaging just over nine million viewers on ABC. That's
down nineteen percent from last year's Finals, which ended in
five games were called. Boston was up three to zero
in that series, so that one was even. But there's
no reason for people to watch, right, So that would
(07:59):
make this series outside of the bubble by far the
lowest rated in the Nielsen era. And here's the worst
part about it, guys, this year's NBA Finals is the
first time that Nielsen has this expanded out of his
own viewing measurement, which said never used.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It used to be there are people at sports bars
that don't count, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
So now they're including that, and it's still low and
it's still the worst outside of the bubble in NBA history.
Of guys, to make it even worse, especially tonight, Monty
mentioned Tyres Halliburn has banged up his CAP's giving a
lot of problems. He's gonna give it a go, but
he's clearly limited. All signs points are okay, see big
Ley tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And here here's why this is the worst case scenario.
Just what Monty said, like, it's worse. We started small
market uh players that people don't know, like the casual
right the names. We know him if you follow basketball
and you watch the NBA. But SGA A Halliburnon, they
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did not household name. So that was number two. Number three.
If SGA, who had this incredible season and is the
MVP and can't get people juiced up, offered like what
season and what would he have to do to get
people jacked up about him? Is what I'm saying, Like
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this was the year you're coming out party.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
People should know who you are.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
And then the Kicker is the one guy who made
Indiana viable with all the great shots and moments of
this twenty five twenty twenty five postseason. Now he's not
even really available for the biggest game, which is to
try to force a Game seven, and then who knows
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if he'd be able to play. That's why this is
the worst case scenario. Everything is bad for the NBA.
Small markets not having the big marquee names as far
as play your MVP and star for one team, people
really don't know despite all he's accomplished this year.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
And lastly, the hero of the.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Postseason is now banged up and can't be himself. It
is the worst case.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, I think sometimes things are coming right down the pipeline.
There's nothing you can do about it. It's an inevitability.
And when you got Lebron and Luca lock kicked out,
not only their names but also the name of which
we just spent time talking about yesterday because they were
sold for ten billion dollars, the Lakers. When you're going, okay,
least we have the rainning champs. They should do their part,
they should get to fights. Okay, at least we'll have
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a big mark, bigger market in Boston, and then we'll
have the reigning chance for that storyline, a legacy and
blue Blood and the Celtics. They get kicked out, and
then you're all right, well, shoot, maybe there's a long shot.
Jimmy Butler now a Warrior and they've been playing very
well with him. Boom, they get knocked out. So the
star power having Steph and Jimmy and Draymond has gone
in familiarity of the Warriors. So this is one of
those things. It was coming down the pipeline. We saw
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it coming. You and I had discussions about it and
now here we are. But if you're the NBA, A
couple of things to know. One, you've been here before.
You've had you know, the seasons where we talked about it.
You beat it up to nauseum, you keep bringing it up.
The Spurs have been in you know, some of the
three lowest rated finals. You know, you had the nets,
you had. So it happens where you get these finals
(11:19):
that are down, people aren't watching, and then hopefully you
bounce back with something good, something juicy. And I think
what also is in favor Number one, you got the
Lakers being sold because now maybe the Lakers are able
to do some things, which being some juice. Secondly, well,
I mean that's what the that's what that ownership has done,
you know that, you know. Covering the Dodgers also, I
(11:40):
think they have come become where some of the real
juice like other sports like soccer or football as the
world calls it, Uh, it's some of the movement of
stars that you're blown away or moving. NFL every now
and again you get some big stars moving a quarterback
or two there the move and you're like, oh, shoot,
Aaron Rodgers. The talk of the summer and to see
where he ends up now with the Steelers. So if
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Giannis gets out there, if KD starts to becoming the
move and becomes a spur or a rocket, I think
that is where they also get some juice during the offseason.
So I think the NBA has also become where now
the movement of big time players adds a little bit
of flair and juice to the summer. But as far
as his finals, yeah, I mean there's nothing you can do.
(12:21):
SGA has been in the top what two to three
finals MVP picks finalists the last few years till he
fining won it. This year. You got a team that's
an all time defensive team, an all time point differential team.
But the thing that hurts and you really continue. You
can look at it as if this were John Morant,
if this were Anthony Edwards. As far as young guys,
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the difference is they play above the rim each night.
You're saying, I may see something you hardly see jumping
literally jumping over guys, dunking on them. Or Edwards, He's
shot he more threes than anybody in the NBA. He
goes nine to ten into three point from the three
point line, something that spectacular, something. You know, he's jawing people,
he's talking smack with fans. There's something to it, SGA.
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It works to the disadvantage that he's the model of consistency.
You're just gonna get thirty points every night, quietly, some
mid range jump shots, some free throws, good defense, no issues,
no arguing with the refs. I'm gonna go about my business.
And that is great for him. It's gonna get him
a bunch of money. He's gonna make him in All
NBA several times over. But for the fans and for
the juice, you don't get anything with that. And Haler
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Burton is inconsistent, too inconsistent to be that superstar because
during the regular season he dissipateed. He disappeared in the
regular season for twenty games because he's just you know,
eighteen and six and that's nothing spectacular about that until
this postseason run. So yeah, this is you didn't hope
for it, but you hope that you get the bounce
back next season and that the summer is interesting with
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trades and free agency.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Good look, I hear you with all that, but it's
still about market size and people are regionalized people in
New York once the Knicks got knocked out, not interested
people in Boston like this is a reality. If you
don't have anybody who's really compelling, that's that's the issue.
I mean, we can sit here and go like, oh
I love ball, Okay, batt it's the square gun. Don't
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don't I know Nick fans because I'm friends from people
in New York, they're not watching.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They're not after the Knicks got knocked out, they were
totally turned on.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It was it was their team that lost you that
team and.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
They like, I'm not I can't watch, you know what
I mean, And you wind up losing people.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's a it's a.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Tough it's a tough and we kind of it's nothing.
There's nothing you can do. You try. Like they're interviewing
Mike Epps as we speak, because he's the biggest Indiana
Pacer fan aging muster up. If this were the Knicks,
can you imagine all the you know, all the fans
they have, all the stars, so let you can be
juiced up. Who look at all the people there and
all of that. This is the best we got, is
Mike Epps all right?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the phone number?
Where is?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Where's the juice for these NBA Finals? Has this been
the worst case scenario for the league and we laid
on out a lot of stuff to not go right.
We'll continue that conversation next with you. It is the
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Speaker 1 (15:40):
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Speaker 4 (16:55):
All right, let's go Shell in Orlando. You're on the
couple Foxports to Radio. What's up?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Shell?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Not too much, man, I appreciate it and honestly love
y'all show listening all the time. But I just want
to remind you that y'all, y'all obviously got naturally syndicated
show you're being listening to by thousands and thousands of
the NBA fans and consumers from all around the country.
I'm not trying to point fingers, but I do want
to remind you that I think y'all have like a
sacred responsibility to like create and promote the product on
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the floor. And so, like my biggest complaint with the
NBA media is y'all like cannibalize. It's it's you never
hear like NFL like down talking the product on the field.
And so for you guys, when you ask, like where's
the juice with like this current finals right now, I
just want to say, like y'all get to create those storylines.
Y'all get to promote that and talk about that and
hype it up instead of like tearing it down and
(17:45):
so like it's but it becomes self fulfilling prophecy at
a certain point. And unless I'm like completely misreading.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
It, like Shell, here here's the issue.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Okay, I hear you, and and I think here's where
where you're misguided. Because Shell, if there were a buzz
and numbers, we couldn't have that narrative. There would be
no conversation.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Shell.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
They're not like the numbers are in the middle or
are okay but not great. These are all time lowest
rating numbers. It would be like a house being on
fire and not covering the fire.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Shell, do you understand, like like it's all time low?
This is it's a story, Like that's a story that's
no There's.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
No way you can go on about this and act
like it's not the all time worst, the worst since COVID.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
I hear that.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
I think I think the problem is that this is
not just a twenty four to twenty five season issue.
This has been growing and growing and growing. So every
single year, NBA media only wants to talk about the
big names in the big cities and all these small
market teams get crapped on. You never hear that in NFL.
Nobody's down talking Cincinnati, Buffalo, Kansas City like nobody down
talks to these teams like man like Goddell would lose
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his mind if the NFL media will Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So no, I hear your point A couple couple of things.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
All I've said is I've been rooting for the Pacers
to win.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I picked the pace, and I think, and I think
what I would add to that. Part of the reason
we caught this conversation because we're confused though on SGA
is doing everything right? What a team player, MVP, a
baller only putting up numbers that Jordan has. Why aren't
people watching? And let's make it. I personalize it. I've
told you guys person in our chats and I've said
it on the air. You guys know how I am
(19:28):
about basketball. I'm basketball nut. That's just my thing. But
then so are my friends. The guys that I've been
talking to about NBA and basketball since I was eight
nineteen years old, not a single one of them have
texted me. And that has never happened in my life,
and so that warrants the question of why, what is missing,
what's different? So I don't think it's a talking down.
It to trying to figure out what the confusion is.
(19:49):
Why is this the case?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Is what I'm at, And that's fair because you're used
to getting stuff art squeeze in. Another one is that
Josh from is that Idaho Falls?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yes? I do, Yes, what's up, Josh?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (20:04):
Guys, third time caller.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Appreciate that Josh would.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Yeah, Josh, Yeah. So I a couple of things for you.
So I don't think so I get the viewser down.
But to me, I'm a true basketball fan that just
loves the game and this is some of the best
basketball I've seen in a long time. So for me,
I love me some great defense. I love that the stars.
(20:36):
I love the SGA is just a good dude and
Jay Will, they're.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Just good dudes.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
That those are the people that I want my sons
to watch and model their behavior after, because they're good
people that are doing the right things for the right reason.
And that doesn't get clicks. But at the end of
the day, they got me to be a big fan.
So that's all I got to.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Say, Josh, real quick, and I think you'll appreciate, Josh.
I appreciate the call too. One thing is similar to
caller before. I think it's not fair, is Roger. You
can be the testament, obviously you Rob sitting next to me.
I've set up here and said, I think we're looking
at the model of the new NBA. You look at
the Pacers deep eight nine, ten deep, bunch of different
(21:18):
guys playing, and look at the defensive effort, look at
the camaraderie, the almost college like style in which the
Thunder play. I've sang their praises, but for us to
have one segment where we're going, hey, well, what's up,
what's going on here? And you know, as if we,
I specifically even me, have been talking about how great
this is and how good they are, and I think
they I just said it that day. You and I
have got a debate. I said, I think they're gonna
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have a five six year run the Thunder of winning
possibly two or three. So I don't want to I
don't want it to be as if we haven't set
up here and talked about how good basketball is.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But I'll push back even further and real quick. I
know we got Eddie House gripping up in an update.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Dude, I've been sitting in the last ten years where
all people talk about Baseball's guys sell seventy million tickets
and all they talk about TV rating.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I can't am I right, that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But they sell seventy million tickets. The stadium is a pack.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
You know that you're at Dodger Stadium packed, and all
they talk about is all the ratings on television about baseball.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
So baseball's going through it now.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
The ratings have taken a rebound in baseball and they're
going up. That's what's so weird about the NBA is
going down in a time where where baseball is going up.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And I will be that's listen. Baseball caught some some
heat for a while. That's why they changed the game.
Let's not act they didn't speed up the pitch clack
that they didn't try to, you know, shorten the games
and then to have the line shift.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
The ratings went up.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The ussis on like that wasn't a conversation too. And
it's the thing. Listen, by the way, if you don't
think this is happening with your favorite restaurant, meaning they're
going behind the scenes. Why the numbers that? Why is
that one state, one location? It always does big? Now
what's going? How do we shift? What do we need
to do? That's why Pepsi or Coke changes their can
every two years. It's the same product for you to man,
(23:01):
you know what, I guess I will have a Pepsi
today because they switched the can on me. Sorry, I digress.
Eddie House on the way, we'll talk some finals with
him in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
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Speaker 1 (23:21):
It's The Odd Couple Robin Kelvin on a juneteenth edition
of TV Things on Thursday, joined now by our guy,
Eddie House, NBA Champion, NBC Sports Boston, Fox Sports Radio,
Emmy winner and Ain't never been dumped Eddie? What's up man?
Speaker 8 (23:36):
What's happening? What's happening? Happy Jones thinks.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
That's right, hayday brother, And what's you up to?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What's going on? You're getting ready for this game.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yeah, I'm getting ready for this game. I'm in New
York right now. I'm gonna get on FS one tomorrow
on the breakfast Ball. I was on it this morning.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I never missed the breakfast Ball.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Very nice, You never missed the breakfast Ball?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yes, exactly, all right, Halliburton playing. Do they need him
to play, Eddie? Or could he inspire them?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know what I mean? Like, what what are you
expecting out of him? Is it just that he's out
there trying to help out or does he have to
actually compete, play and do something in order for them
to win.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
I think he has to play. He's been the driving force,
the head of the snake for that team all season long,
whether it be him being aggressive scoring or being uh
the guy that is the closer, or being a guy
that sets the table for everybody else. And that usually
comes off of his aggressions that he has when he's
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starting off being aggressive and attacking and scoring the basketball,
which opens up everything for everybody else. So I just
want to see how he's gonna be on that leg.
You know, those cast injuries are very very very very
tricky to deal with because that can lead to Achilles
and God willing that that does not happen to him.
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But at the same time, once you get out there,
we don't want to hear no excuses.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, and he's out there too. And listen, we've seen
some all time great games from guys who've been nicked up,
injured a little bit, and they played in the series.
I'm looking at this, Well, let's say he's good enough
to go and is gonna give him thirty thirty five minutes,
he still have to be has to be aggressive. One
of the numbers that I've seen the stats that I
was amazing to me. When he scores twenty or more,
they're eight to zero in this postseason Eddie, And so
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he's gonna have to be more aggressive. He's aggressive. Isn't
the same as a Kevin durantor stephf He doesn't have
to take thirty shots, but he definitely has to be
more aggressive to me, for in order for them to
have a shot, do you expect them to kind of
play a little bit more? TJ McConnell, though, who played
well in Game five.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You know what, I think. I think that's like a
coach and feel because if if he's able to go
out there and play well right and not have any
kind of you don't see any kind of laboring or
anything like that. And he's aggressive and he's putting pressure
on the defense. I think you can you could. You
gotta rock with what you gotta rock with because this
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do or die at this particular point, you know what
I mean. So you can't say, hey, man, I'm gonna
go out with PJ McConnell if I see that, my
faith in my franchise is out here rocking.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Yeah, Eddie, I want to ask you a question about
Ace Bailey.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Did you see that story we were talking about him tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I think right, But but Eddie that basically he canceled
on the seventy six y and he doesn't want to
play in Utah, And I just I'm surprised.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
That that is like what would be coming.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Out considering what happened with Shador and all that, and
just the idea like teams aren't playing around with people
when there and there's a lot of money at stake.
We just saw what happened in Dallas right where they
just they.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
They Willie Luca was doing his own thing.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
They weren't happy about it, and they just weren't going
to commit to one hundred and fifty million dollars to
them or whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Are you surprised that that.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Would come out of a kid's camp these days, that
he don't want to play here and he's not going
to this workout.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
It's surprising because when you could go up your stock
by going to work out somewhere else unless a team
and the agents knows that you have no shot of
being there, but you have a You always have a shot.
When you have a shot, you know what I mean.
If you don't shoot your shot, you can't have a
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shot right right.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You can't score on any points if you're not shooting
right exactly.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
So my thing is, I don't know how that I
don't know. Man, it's a weird story because if the
people that you are around or allowing you to do
certain things, then you got to look at them and say,
are you holding me back or do you know something
that I don't know? Do you know that I'm guaranteed
(28:09):
to be at this spot and they say that I'm
going to go there. If they say that, okay, cool,
then that's what we're going. But if you don't know
and it's up in the air, and then all of
a sudden that situation becomes a cancerous, for a lack
of a better word, situation to where all of a sudden,
now everybody's looking at you like, oh, I don't know
(28:32):
if your camp is cool, I don't know what kind
of person you are, and then it drops your stock.
So I think you have to show up just to
show who you are and that you are a representative
of not only yourself, your family and what you're doing
and how you do it, to make sure that somebody
could say, hey, man, we believe in you and we
(28:54):
want you.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, Eddie House, you also don't want to alienate people,
am I right? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Like if you must, yeah, you'd be like, oh I
don't know if we want this kid.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, and we're gonna talk more about it. So I'm
saving kind of some of my points still tomorrow. But
I mean, he you act like you Lebron are just
an obvious shock, you know, in ninety two ninety three,
like whereas just the clear cut like all right, notes
relaxed a little bit. I want to ask you this.
We got the new ownership group, which is obviously familiar.
Mark Walter has been a part owner of the Lakers,
(29:24):
and but now he is the majority owner and also
part of the Dodgers owner of the Dodgers as well.
What does ownership what role do they play when when
Eddie House is on the team, you're with the Heat,
you're with the Celtics, you're with the whoever, what's that like?
What's the relationship and when you did you have good
ownership where you felt it and did you have bad
where you felt that as well and affected as the team?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Well, the worst ownership I ever had was Donald Sterling. Uh,
that was like probably the worst ownership that ownership owner
that I ever played for. We didn't have or we
didn't have any food on the plane. We didn't have
food before practice or after practice. We played. Uh, we
practiced at a junior college. The showers didn't work, so
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we came here cleaned, left with a funky ass.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
This is the truth. No food on the planes. We
was you know, God's eating Popeyes. Now imagine I'm coming
from Miami, which is ran by Mickey Harrison, and you know,
Pat Riley was the coach at the time, and it
was a one professional We had food before practice, We
had got a chef that would make omelets every single
morning for you or whatever you want it, and then
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we would have lunch afterwards. We had our own plane.
Uh you know, food on the plane. And so going
from that my first three years and then going to
so that's great ownership. Then going to what I dealt
with for one year and with the Clippers was like
(30:57):
a culture shock. And mind you we practic is at
Southwest Junior College. Now you literally had to drive through
every single hood like I'm not getting I.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Know that we're out here and that we know where
it is.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, you had to really go through everything. So and
then go into the Boston Tels ownership, it's fantastic. You know,
Wick was amazing, PAGs was amazing, everybody that was involved
in in the ownership, you know, Rich Climbing that, everybody,
(31:29):
every everybody is amazing over there. And so you know,
seeing the two different spectrums, you know what I mean,
and being caught at the back end with the Clippers
ownership means everything because they make you comfortable and feel
comfortable on what you need to be doing. And that's
the most important thing is that you want your players
(31:52):
to feel as comfortable as possible. So they could play
their best.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No, that makes sense, absolutely makes sense. All right, Eddie Man,
we got a bail in pre shit it as always man,
enjoy game six tonight.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
All right, right on, Pete, no doubt.
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
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with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Kevin, you know this, I'm gonna take a stab at
it Newlyweds. No, it's a game show, because that's what
we're It's not a game show.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
It is a game show.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Oh, you just hit me with the buzz. Okay, you
know what Quin said. I know the host's name, but
now I'm blanking on the name of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well give me the host name. That might help me.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Monty Hall.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh, definitely deal.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Let's make a deal. Yeah, yes, let's make a deal
with Monty Hall.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Many Hall. It's see hot cover Rob Parker Kevin Washington
on a June teenth TV Themes on Thursday theme song,
specifically our game shows. So there you have it, this
one right here. Let's make a deal. All right, and
it is time now far I'm gonna be doing a
game show voice. It's time out far Shekel.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
City two Shekel City, the home base for Rob Parker's
daily Dicks against the spread.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
All right, how'd you do? You gotta get on the runk.
It's like over three one and two and it's been
a rough go for man.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Okay, I'm not even trying the truck.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Okay, here we go. Let's start with at least start
with a one h oh and three live Hello Darkness,
Rob's old friend.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I was one sixty three, went sixty six, Rob Sterling.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Junior, Come on, Sterling, here we go.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
You own a team Giants best bet minus one and
a half runs against the Cleveland Guardians in San Francisco
Cardinals minus.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
One and a half runs. There were oh, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It was six to one, six six. You said, I
turned around like that six six?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
It was am I right? We just what was six
to one a minute ago?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
It's six to six. Now, brother, unbelievable. I'm like, what, hello,
darkness already for tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And now I'm mad too, because the Pirates.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
I had the Pirates plus two and a half, right, yeah, right,
you're all right. No, that was Game one that the
Tigers won nine to two, scored to two down.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And you know what what was the score that Cardinals
game Game one?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Because if they had doubleheaders, I gotta check that one,
all right.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Because that would have been for game one.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, both were game one, all right?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Anyway, Shekel City Pirates plus two and a half chance already, Yes,
the best bet was the.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Giants minus one and a half.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
Ye.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'm not telling you who to bet on. I'm telling
you who. I'm your dag, alright, You ain't telling me
who to bet on?
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Bet up with?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
All right, all right, man, it's signed out for the
tirereck play the day.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
One all pitch to wood swing, a high flying wall,
center field deep that goes Hilliard to the warning track
at the wall.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
It's gone, James, what doesn't listen to the line, Mary's over.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Net swin at four to three, he puts it on
the batter's high hill with a soaring home run.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
The straightaway center field.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Are they boing note that your they had lost eleven
in a row.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
That was a low cheer. They're like, oh yeah, and
that's your man too, James with he MLB bro yet.
Have you had a chance to talk with him? Of course, yeah,
we're all over it. Okay, Yeah, congrats to him. Nationals
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it briefly, there's another NEPO hiring rob Gi Huh SAT's right,
Steve Kerr's son Nick. I'm never gonna say his first
and last name back to get together, but he has
(36:20):
been hired now definitely, not on juneteen, Definitely, not on juneteenth,
not never.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
He is the new assistant coach for the Golden State
Warriors entry next season. Just a quick background on Nicholas Kerr.
I don't know his real name is Nicholas. Nicholas Kerr's
coaching career, he served as a grad assistant for University
of California, Berkeley. In twenty sixteen twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
he was an intern for the Spurs, and after that
(36:46):
he spent the next three seasons working in the Warriors
player development and video department, and the previous three seasons
he's been the head coach for the Warriors G League team.
Now he gets a call up to the big leagues.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Rob Parker, I.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Know I'm against nepotism. I've told you this is a
thousand time. I don't care who it is. And there's
nothing wrong with his son getting into coaching. He shouldn't
be working for the Warriors. Let him go out and
get a job at one of the other organizations. Seriously,
that's my only issue, not that he wants to follow
on his dad's footsteps. Doug Gottlieb on this radio network, Right,
(37:23):
his father was a longtime coach.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
It's in their family, that's their family business.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I always say, my family business is the barbershop business.
My nephew owns two barbershops New York and Virginia Beach
and you know I own barbershops and I have one
still in Detroit, so that's our family business, you know,
So that's not what I'm against. And if I was there,
I would ask him, if I was at the press conference,
Steve Kerr, where are you on nepotism? Is that a
(37:50):
good thing to be able to hire your family, you know,
and jobs and you know, maybe cut off the opportunity
for other people. And how many people were really interviewed
for this position and how were they fully evaluated when
they were up against you?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Was it just hurry of get this done so we
can get to no signs?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I think, by the way, I actually no. I think
he would be the I actually would want to hear
his response because he's so well thought out type of person.
He might fight out just say you know, hey, look man,
you know one of my things was to get my
son to this position so he could be a part
of us. And you know, he might reference something like
we see with Lebron or other coaches we've seen, or
(38:29):
Bill Belichicker. He seems like the type of whether you
like the answer or not, he would answer it well
thought out and honestly what.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I would really want to know, like what was then
interview process, how many other people were up for the job,
and where were their experience level.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Compared to your son when when?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
When I was in Detroit, I used to ask Rod
Marinelli all the time, are you going to fire your
son in law?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Like I would ask him in the press conference.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
What would he say, He's letting to swing on now,
Steve Kirk, gonna swing on you.
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