July 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether the Player Empowerment Era ushered in by LeBron James' The Decision has been bad for the NBA, debut Rob's very special Sade-inspired Burger King commercial, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob's nightly bets. Plus, former NFL offensive lineman and FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Ephraim Salaam swings by to discuss LeBron's impact on the League, the narrative that LeBron only wins when he stacks the deck in his favor, Kirk Cousins' comments about feeling misled by the Atlanta Falcons, and much more!
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Let's welcome in my co host year mister Kelvin rob Oh,
my bed, I was getting ready for my trash talk.
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Is that anybody can get it today, robb G? Yeah
you over there, Steve. Anybody could get it today. Okay, Steve,
you saw like me in college my freshman year.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah. See there we go.
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He starting off already, We already talking about fistic You
need the money.
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We know you weren't fighting. People can throw coffee in
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Speaker 1 (02:17):
I fought when I college. No, I fought my roommate.
Don't be showing me copp and rob G. Don't have
don't be showing me, uh your college layups to you said,
I wasn't that was a basket. I was getting buckets
back then. Don't be showing me college layups. Are you
sitting there looking like elgend Baylor? You saw that shot,
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you were like, man, he got a little fun. I said,
you one like crazy rob looking rob G.
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That was before after the BBC.
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I thought you about to say, bbl do we still
don't know how you lose it out his weight round
what we don't know?
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Bb down six and I just started the good stuff six.
That's it. He's gonna catch you. I thought you gonna lose.
He's gonna catch I haven't able to jack up the
workouts yet. Okay, he's about to.
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Yeah, he's gonna catch you by October for sure, which
is crazy if you're putting in all this hard work,
then he gets to just cheat.
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I'm Barry Bonds. Oh there you go.
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You got everybody there, everybody rolling around.
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I didn't say that. That's rolling around. Hey, I've grown,
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I'm about to get a snippet of it. No, not yet.
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In about forty minutes, it's Rob Parker featuring feature Calvin Washington.
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Where's my check? Rob G I didn't even know I
was in it? You, Alex, Alex, you don't get no check.
That's right. This is got, This is this is motile.
This is motile. You ain't getting no money.
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Last time you saw Michael Jordans real like, real like.
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The at the All Star Game for the seventy fifth
the seventy five.
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Greatest Players You all right? Did he see you?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He did look at me a little strange because I'm
you know, Jordan's listen. But I'm always giving Jordan's stuff,
the prop you know, and all that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
He walked around. He had a MLB bro in the
backseat of his car right there you go.
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All right, let's welcome in the odd couple of crew
because we wouldn't be able to do this fine radio
program with that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I always feel low in this chair? Am I low?
Who's sitting here? Dan? I don't know, maybe Dan, Yeah,
it must be doing Dan was sitting here. All right?
You feel better now?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What I just I just felt like the chair was
a little low, Okay, all right? Rob g is our producer,
Alex's eye engineer Steve the Sager's at the anchor DWN.
Steve and Saga is our social media Google. I'm not
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he's off. He got using this m I gotta step
my game up.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yep. So there you go. Terrible, terrible vacation one in
two days, rob G. Today is a big anniversary in sports.
It is actually.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And I remember it clearly, the Boys and Girls Club
of was it?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
No, no, no, it was it Connecticut. It was in Connecticut.
They had it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was in Connecticut, if I remember correctly, at the
Boys and Girls Club or something?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Am I right? It was at where rob G.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What happened fifteen years ago today, July eighth, fifteen moons ago.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It was a true watershed moment for the NBA because
fifteen years ago today was the decision where Lebron James
famously left the Cleveland Cavaliers to take his talents to
South Beach and join the Miami Heat. Obviously, we've seen
a lot of think pieces come out about it today,
and the consensusy SEMs to be that that moment has
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spawned several different avenues in NBA history. Number One, it
was the day the player empowerment era was born. Number Two,
according to multiple people, it was the day that networks
began emphasizing insiders with scoops ahead of any player transaction
because they didn't like the idea that only one guy
had this story and it was Lebron James, and they
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wanted to have these guys to be able to have
it in advance.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So they said, all the insiders get in bed with
the agent's right, go ahead number three.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It eventually led to the full fledged evolution of the
Pace and Space era because as much as Steve Nash
and those guys were very good in Houston Orshumi in Phoenix,
nobody was really winning with that style until Lebron d
Wade and Chris Boss Chris Boss playing the five, Laurron
playing the four, and suddenly they were winning. And last
but not least, it served as the official launching point
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of Team USA Basketball, serving as a feeder system for
the NBA Super teams because, as you know, all these
super tams have come together since then, nine percent of
them those guys played together on Team USA and Rob G.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know what else it is, It's a defining moment
in Lebron James's legacy because the things that Rob G
talked about, when you really think about Lebron's legacy, it failed.
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Player empowerment failed Lebron right, he won his couple of championships,
but it didn't really work out. It didn't carry over.
Other people tried. A couple teams tried it.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Guess what. It also hurt Lebron.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It came back to bite him what he was able
to do with Miami and how his career and his
ring total could be totally different, right had he not
set this up. When I think of Lebron, I think
that what he did in Miami was MySpace.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
And then Golden States said, you know, we got something
for you.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We're gonna do Facebook, and they went and got Kevin
Durant and they won those two championships against Lebron. Those
are two more l's that hung on Lebron. So they
did it even better then Lebron did it. And when
I think of like legacy I talk about all the
time you can talk about pop Greg Popovich's five championships,
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I think of low management. When I think of Lebron James,
I think of player empowerment that didn't work ultimately, and
now all of these restrictive CBA things that they've employed
put in all to stop that to all stop players
from moving.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Here's a double apron. You can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It's gonna cost you money, Like the players allowed the
owners to put in these really stuffed stiff penalties to
stop all of this.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So what he thought he was doing, which was.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Given players a liberation and a freedom to decide what
their careers are going to do, actually backfired, cost him
some championships and also put stricter restrictions on players and
their movement. People have abandoned this whole idea of super teams.
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It is not a lasting legacy for Lebron James all right.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Lebron did not complete the super team for anybody other
than the fact that it was for himself. Because Lebron
knew he was about to be judged on a completely
different criteria, and so he realized. And this is one
of the questions I've had for fans, Rob and I
really mean it. Why don't fans get mad at the
right people. Fans don't get mad at James Dolan. Fans
don't get mad at Jerry Jones. Fans don't get mad
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at Dan Gilbert because you know what Dan Gilbert did.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
He did nothing for Lebron. When Lebron was there he left.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I swear we'll win a championship before Lebron ever wins one.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, that wasn't kit court.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Lebron won the next year and you know, two years
and so to me, it's just it's comical. And then
Dan Gilbert only won because Lebron came back and won.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Why did he go by? And why did he go
Why did Lebron go by? If Dan Gilbert was such
a bad guy and didn't know what he was doing?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Wand glad you asked?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, because Lebron went off and won and became the
biggest thing in the NBA. Why to tell you? Because
where's a home made sense to that? It absolutely does,
because Lebron wanted to win and for.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Who this once claim that this is for you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
He wanted to win one in Cleveland, and guess what
he did. He won in Cleveland. And so to me,
the player empowerment only moves if you're that great. People
been moving for the last and fifteen years and didn't
do nothing with it. Lebron goes to Miami and wins,
a couple, loses the couple as well. Then he goes
back to the couple as well. He did and he
goes back to Cleveland and wins again. And so my
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point is he's won four championships in twenty four years.
So my point is, how long is a person supposed
to stay in the organization that drafted them if they
done nothing. The Cavaliers did nothing before him, They didn't
do right and get guys with him. This is a
real thing. He didn't do anything. They didn't do anything
for him. Booby Gibson was a starting point guard. They
had drew good years. You want to go over there.
(11:13):
Win total during the Lebron Cleveland years? Were they the
number one seed? Did they win.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Sixty games every year?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But they didn't have anybody? Okay, put in the playoffs,
they didn't have anything. I just said that Lebron, how
they win, but they couldn't win with leron. But he
couldn't win in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Because I'm saying the team he beat the Piston by hisself.
I'm glad you apkay, So what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Michael Jordan didn't do anything either until Pippen became Pippen,
until he got Phil Jackson. He just put up a
bunch of points. And that's a fact. He was getting
swept in first round. He wasn't getting out the second round.
And that's okay because no one does it alone. Rob
Magic Johnson walked into Jamal Wilkes, Norm Nixon, Kareem Abdu
before that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But he go, look at the Lakers before them. How
many championships did they win before?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You got my point? The vitalized that friend. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But I have to do it with Kareem, who was
the best player when they were there in the first
half years. Magic will tell you that and then it's
Kareem and in Magic. So I'm not knocking you need people,
is my point.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm talking about his legacy. It ain't Nobody thinks of
him as the all time greatest scorer like Kareem was forever.
That's not what you think about when you think about Lebron.
You think about he ushered in the legacy of trying
to stack his team to win, and that's.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What he wanted to do. I don't get he went
so you're missing the genesis lost. The reason why this
happened was because the Cavs were doing nothing and he
realized you all are only gonna judge me on winning
championships period. I'm the same player talent wise, I'm good.
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I'm winning MVPs. I've got to drag the team to
the finals of two thousand and seven. You're only going
to judge me on winning championships. The team is doing
nothing for seven years at six seven eight years old, man,
so he leaves up.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You know what to sit here and say they did nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They got him everybody he wanted, even Jack, even Shaq
won Cavaliers.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No Howlready get there forty?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How did he get there? How did he get there?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He was? Why was he on that team? He was
Shack forty?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Asking you how Lebron didn't want him brought Shack? You're
argument asking that might be the worst argument you've ever seen.
Answered the forty year old Shack who would like to
get there? Lebron didn't want him, but he got there.
Why are you bringing up how did Shaq get to Cleveland?
They because I'll tell him I'm asking. Let me answer
the question, answer it easily. They always a dollar late
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and a dollar day later. Lebron, who are looking the
decisions Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Come on, they're always a day Lebron wants only want
a forty year olds. He don't want a thirty four
year old, Shack still balling. He wants a forty year old.
He wants to have Lebron say as Lebron said, I
don't want Shack. The Cavaliers wouldn't have done it. The
Cavaliers wouldn't have die. The Miami Heat got still something
in the tank. Shack, Lebron got every Shack talks about
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how washed up he was. Ben Wallace wasn't the same.
They did nothing. He leaves and wins.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Doing nothing means you didn't bring in anybody. That's what
doing nothing is. Naming somebody. I'll wait doing nothing, you
said they did nothing. Doing nothing means you don't bring anybody.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
No, no, no. It might not have worked out, but.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You can't say they didn't do anything if you're telling me,
if your that thread, they brought in a four year
old Ben Wallace won four defensive.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Plan with years over.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So what I'm saying is they didn't bring in anybody
the right time. So he went and got it himself
into the tune of the Cavaliers doing nothing before during
while he was there. The first run, he comes back
and wins. So all I'm saying is he had to
go create what he was. What he was never gonna
get there in.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Cleveland eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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Lebron's player Empowerment era legacy a bad thing?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
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All right.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Basically, Lebron fifteen years since the decision is his legacy
that the player empowerment.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
And rod set has failed. It failed.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I say he is. Thank god he's been the face
of the leave for fifteen years. To be boring with
out on what else will we have? Whether you love
him or hate him, at least we had something which
you want. Jason Tatum, the.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Lay fifteen years, the league is going down. It hasn't
been it hasn't been improved.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
All right? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox A Robot.
I'm Jason Robert in Seattle. You're on the couple Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Robert?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Hey, guys, thanks you having me on. I just want
to make the point about Lebron's support in Cleveland before
the decision. They won sixty one games last year. The
next year was essentially the same team. They only won
nineteen games.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How did they win sixty one, though, Robert? How did
they win sixty one?
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Okay, so there was nobody.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They actually won.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
They actually won fifty or more and four of the
seven years that he was there, the last five if
you really look at it, once he became established and
not in the first couple of years, they won fifty
or more games every year.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Did you know you're propping up him?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The same team?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Okay, right, Robert Gibson go to the All Star Game.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Dip though, just to give you an impact of the
surrounding cast.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Stop it, stop it all right, have a terrible, great point.
Eric in Austin, you're on the couple of Fox Sports
Radio Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What's up, Kevin.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Rod?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
You are completely off base here.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
What are you talking about? Listen?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Like Kelvin said Lebron needed help in Cleveland the first
time around, he didn't get any help. He didn't have
the Robinson's batman. You're bringing the old bit walls of
old sack, Eric snow like Rush.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You're saying Booby gives it to the Fall Game, the
Star Game.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Don't look it up. Don't look it up.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
From if Booby Gibson is Judi Galaxy by your second
best players, you're not doing much.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
How did you win sixty one game arab but he
couldn't win in the playoffs. Huh is that what you're
telling me?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I'm sorry, lebroh okay, all right, Oh crying it kills me.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
He only could exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
When he wins, it's just about him and he did it.
But when they lose, it's because he doesn't have anybody else.
It doesn't make sense, it doesn't. You'll answer that, No,
you can't. I would agree with you. That makes I
would agree with some ladder portions. I would agree with
that ladder, even that first round, even here though even
here wait, wait, we're looking around going oh a D.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I don't know we should need help. He got Luca,
one of the best players in the league. Oh, I
don't want to stick around him. I don't have help.
I mean the guys.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
You need a.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Victim of his own success think and all I need
is this this at the latter portion of his career.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I'll give you that them first ten years or so,
Brod was out there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You've met Shaq and Ben Wallace and Boobie Gibson and
akis Drew Gooden.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
They won, They won sixty one game one. Let me
help you.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You keep doing that you know, if he won, then
he lost in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He did okay, he did not the team and he
was solo call in Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Hey guys, thanks for taking our call. And Rob I
got your back on this.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
This is this is why he's a.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Poster boy for the player Empowerment era. When he left Miami,
I asked the same question, why is he leaving Miami?
He won two championships. I've recently learned that from inside
India insiders. He wanted Eric's sposed to fire, yes, and
and part rally said, are you kidding me? Sit down somewhere.
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So he said, well, I'm leaving, and Para Rally said bye.
He goes to Cleveland, he wants to coach fire, He
stay fired, and he goes to l A. They win
a championship, Bogo fire, cams fire everywhere he goes. The
coaches are fine.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yep, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You didn't he didn't leave out a few other facts
those Cleveland hadn't won anything in the entire city in
fifty four years.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Then they went with him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Then he goes to Lakers, who hadn't won anything since
what was it twenty you're.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Talking about that they had Kobe here? What anything? Since?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They haven't won anything since since Kobe is what you're
saying twenty Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And how many years was that was that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Like that was ten years and Lebron came and they won.
That's what I'm saying. I know, is Lebron win. I
know every franchise he went to one. I knows he
played twenty.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Three franchise he went to one and he won four.
Every franchise one rock. That's crazy. That is nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Every franchise is Kevin in Culver City. You're on the
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Kevin.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Good all the time? Hey man, Lebron won his championships.
But you gotta give him some criticism.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, he gets no, no, no, Kelvin's on the payroll.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I criticized him.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Alex Caruso, Kyle Kuzma case. After they won the championship,
he got rid of the whole team for Westbrook. He
cost that championship.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Wind with thank you nov keV.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You were gave you the first He didn't get rid
of them, Yes, he did got rid of the first batch.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
To Brandon Ingram's and he got.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Rid of the second batch to Westbrook. He wanted the albatross, yes, contract,
and they couldn't moved that. Another thing too, that player
in Parliament Era destroyed the Clippers. They cost the Clippers
cycle of six first Rock.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He went too far, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, we appreciate the
car destroyed.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
keV.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Don't bring up don't bring up the Clippers. keV. You're
wanding right about Lebron and his legacy. All right, yeah,
all right, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Trash Talking Tuesday already early. All right, we got e
From on the way. We'll talk some with him. Maybe
throw this at Ephraim as well. Right now, Steve, the
Sega is gonna get your set on what's trending.
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Trash Talking Tuesday. Ephram salam Our guests now from We've
already started our trash talking.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He's a former NFL offensive line in Fox Sports Radio
Weekend host e From salam on X.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
What I Bean, what's up? Brothers doing?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
We you know, you'll be proud of us. We could
have went on another two three minutes yelling at each other.
We said, you know, let's just you know, let's just
stop it now. Let's make sure we give you from
all his time. And so we did that for you, right,
listen that we're maturing. We did that for you. What's
going on?
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Man, appreciate that you put a button.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
On this real quick for us.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Today mark fifteen years since the decision Lebron and the paraphrase.
Rob says that that started the player and power movement
when he failed, which failed for him, which failed? I
said Lebron had to do that because he could go
another seven years in Cleveland and do nothing, and then
we would judge him here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
He ain't got no rings, and you know he had,
he could.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Have won that experience, just didn't have the time of
patience like Michael Jordan waited in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
You said he didn't have the Pippin and Phil Jackson
and went to that. I couldn't hear you. What'd you say?
Speaker 8 (24:26):
No, Look, it was obvious that Cleveland they weren't putting
a team around him that could really win the championship.
Because Lebron was as great as he was, so fast,
they competed in a very very weak Eastern Conference, but
they weren't gonna be able to get over the hump,
not with the likes of the Spurs and everybody like.
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They weren't gonna be able to get over that hump
in the finals. And then the Celtics did what they did?
What did they do?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
What did the Celtics do?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
They went out and formed a Big three?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
No, so they made trades to form a team. They
did not do what Lebron did.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
It's you have to give to get. It ain't the
same stop.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
It hold on very what we what we what we
very rarely see at all in any sport when someone
the caliber of Lebron, which is one of the top,
you know, five six players in the league at the time,
actually make it to free agency and actually get a
chance to pick where they want to go. And so
(25:32):
the fact that he, you know, was loyal and true
to Cleveland for what seven years I believe, what was
it seven years? And he saw what was happening around
the league and he decided to, you know, do something
about it as and use that moment in time to
(25:54):
go and join his friends and put the team together
that can actually compete.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And it actually cost them to It cost him two
championships because the Warriors took what he did and they
won upped him. He was my Space and they facebooked
and that, and I'm just saying so it worked against him.
Actually it cost him and changed the way people look
at him. To play that many years and only have
four championships.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
He lost more than he won.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Rob Rob, Did he win two championships in Miami?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But that but how that was a failure in Miami.
That was a failure. That was that was that was
a failure. It was a failure in Miami.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It was two.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Because he won two championships because previously he had none.
So saying that someone it was a failure when someone
really accomplishes their goal twice over, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Here we go for you or you five not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, not saying.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Oh yeah, and when I say that, I really believe it.
I mean when I say that, I really.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Believe it, and he ain't getting close to that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I love bring up pet rallies and I also love
that they lost to the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And that's okay, Dallas kidding me.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I love that as well.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
That's a big blemish on the Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Well yeah, I mean, look, Lebron James has been ultra successful,
not the most successful, but he's probably had the best
NBA career than any player ever.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
He's a facility and.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
All of it and all of that. But what I
will say is, when you start talking about the greatest
player ever, I don't know if longevity has ever been
a part of that conversation in terms of just basically
your your your work, right, Like, what have you done
for however long you've played to be considered the greatest?
(28:00):
And for me, that's why you know MJ. Even though
I've never been a Bull fan, but I'm a basketball fan,
so I can recognize that MJ's the greatest of all
time based on his body of work when he played.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Hey, from switching gears a little bit, I want to
go to something. We're going to have a conversation about
this a little bit later on real quick, but just
your thoughts on what Kirk Cousin has kind of said
about his position there. Had he known the Falcons were
going to draft a quarterback and had they known with
the Falcons and then because he left Minnesota knowing they
were going to draft on early. Just do what you
have to make of Kirk Cousins and kind of on
(28:32):
the new episode of The Court QB Show on Netflix, saying,
had he known, he might have reconsidered some things and
what else where.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
He wasn't reconsidering that what that guaranteed money they gave him.
I don't think anybody else is going to give him
that level of contract coming off from the Achilles injury,
and so don't I don't think that it was going
to be, you know, any other team at that point
for Kirk Cousins. The best deal to me seemed like
(29:03):
the only thing really on the table.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, well, I mean he and not to mention it too.
I think I said, i'mna talk about a little bit later,
but he no one is in the room to complain
with all the money he's made at the end of
his career.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It doesn't matter like money, Like money doesn't matter, you
know that there's still a part of how you're treated
right and how people do stuff and whether or not
they said stuff to you to lead you to believe
something that's what this is about. Nobody sits in and go, oh,
I don't get I don't care. I just want money.
People have been with, people have been disrespected, he from,
people have been lied to, and you know this.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
That doesn't solve everything. It doesn't. Of course, of course
it's good, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
If you got hired, if you get hired a spectrum
and they tell you you're gonna be the anchor the
morning show and they're bringing a young guy and he
starts putting you on the show, and then you would
be like, I thought outsigned the contract for this, right,
I thought this was my show.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
But we also know we also know uh and Kirk
Cousins knows this and any other professional ad lead under
contract and some things have happened that you can't control
any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Agreed, But I'm just saying it doesn't mean that you
can't feel good. We're good about it.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Those conversations happen all the time across business. You can
come in feeling like yeah, okay, okay, and then it
can tift at the drop of a dime. And so
he's been in the league, and you gotta remember Kirk
Cousins have He's dealt with things like this before, so
it shouldn't have been such a big shock to him
because he is seasoned and been in the league where
(30:31):
things then ultimately turned in his favor.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yep, we're gonna break now. Man, appreciate you as always.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Man, We'll do it again. That's great, Salim especially.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Follow their appreciate it. Yes, sir, guess what what's that
coming up?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's the debut of our new burger King Saul. You
do not want to move for this?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Don't move then stay right there. It is featuring No
I was on it. Calvin Washington. Am I right?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
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Speaker 1 (31:12):
Fox Sports Radio couple Rob Parker Kevin Washington on the
trash Talking Tuesday coming up in about an hour or so.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
So looking forward to seeing what you guys have when
it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
But right now it is time for gotta let the
be drop check them City City, Checker City.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Welcome to Shekel City, the hole base for Rob Parker's
day Dix against the Spread.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
You gonna be do today one and two.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Last night I did not here we okay, here we
go for tonight. We will bounce back on this trash
talking Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
All right, I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Uh, the Atlanta Braids minus one and a half taken
on the A's in Sacramento. So we got the Brave
minus one and a half. That's the best bet. Then
we're gonna go with the Giants minus one and a half.
They're hosting the Phillies in the Bay Area, and then
the Padres minus one and a half at home taking
(32:15):
on the Arizona Diamondback.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So again, best bet.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Take the Brays minus one and a half, take the
Giants minus one and a half, and take the Padres
minus one and a half. And remember, I'm not telling
you who to bet on. I'm telling you who I
bet on. I don't forget I knew that. Wait till
you hear this long because we did that. We did that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
That's coming up right after this golf down to right
field in deep talk, fit in it. Jock Bargers left
the yard two runs shot in the sixth.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's five to one.
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Speaker 4 (33:14):
It is the way tire buying should be. And Rob,
would you like to intro? Yes, you know I wrote
this like twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I was trying to become a TV commercial writer and
I was like sweating and blood my blood, sweating tears
to break into the business. I just couldn't get anybody
from Burger King to return my phone call. And now
after they hear this, they just might we might have
this show. And like Burger King commercial proprietory right, we
(33:42):
get some rights to it right, So here we go
free whoppers.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
The new Burger King commercial.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Rob g is like rolling his eyes like I can't
wait to hear this terrible song. And Alex and Ricky,
you guys are the best because they put some time
and energy we hear them.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Doctor Dreda is thinking, okay, here it is what the
game on your burger is?
Speaker 10 (34:06):
Key, you're the ruler for everyone.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I wrote that mustn't have been an angel by my side.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Wrapping in upon you.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Give me some extra pickles just because.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Jo Burger's kid, your meat is we I don't know
about that. The last part look crazy? Ain't last part
is a little crazy? Gee? What are you doing over there?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
First of all, Alex, Bravo, Alex and Ricky, you guys
are not.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He's over there doing actual work. So here's what's crazy.
But first of all, I didn't get the sign of
NDA or anything. I just I'm just out here an
these streets putting up versus.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
You got a you're featured on it. I did not
know I was featured.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Alex and Ricky, y'all didn't call me permission, You didn't
send it to my agent.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
As long as you're in the eye couple, we do
whatever we Okay, Okay, that's what of me talking about
agent Scott?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
What? Robbed you? You know, God has no comedy?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
What.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I'm glad you liked it, Rob? What can we hear
it again? Alex? One more time? One more time? Put
the game one. You're the ruler for everyone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Reb I wrote that age of by my side.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Wrapping, give me some extra pickles just because.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
This part, this part was that part was a little crazy,
but the last part it was gonna be your meat
is real. I need a happy meal.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Like that part of the McDonald's I would have been
mad at it. With all that been an advertising commercial
like y'all did. All that had us so over the
first one minute and fifty nine seconds, and then this this,
we'd have been in Oklahoma City thunder, and then we
got Haller Burton.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
At the end, there was some Burger King executive who's
driving around right now who just heard that, and it's like.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
What, how did I miss this for two decades?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The worst The worst they can do is look, put
it online, put it on something, and then they can
give us some free whoppers, and then you can come
back around eat meat, hold up, and.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Then you can you can get some free whoppers too.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Can you just imagine me, you and shaw Day doing
what would you?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Let me tell you, Let me tell you who's not
coming from from Britain for that shot. I'm my biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
We are both her biggest and that's how that whole
segment started.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Her biggest fan.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Shod Day is incredible, and you always say that I
don't like any black performers. I want you to know
that I love Shada the same capital l If she
walked by fast enough, people might not know she's black.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Shot. You like Tim Cevie Nicks. You hear me, Rob,
You're like Tim's Tim.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
You like Sizza who knows so women a little more mellenated.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I'm trying to check in with you.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
No, no, no, I'm just saying Shaw day Man, Alex Bravo.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Summer Walker. Rob g is just a hater, Jasmine Sullivan.
Why my hater?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Claud didould say that it's great and you love it
and you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Like don't you want to be objective?
Speaker 8 (37:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I want you to be like Rob Roddy couple. All right,
Roger the scale of one to ten, be honest. Otherwise
you could go work over at that other network. I
wouldn't love to be Hey, be honest. Then you get
a threat by the way, you don't you don't want
to work over there, You don't he already worked there.
He's telling you don't do it, you don't work put
the camera on. Well, if you're him, you know what.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
As far as some of your other songs, this one
is one of the better ones. The production value is incredible.
They they Timberland, Doctor Dre, you know, Swiss beats, all
of it.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They put it all over Pharrell and I really love
Jones out of know where the saxophone solo for no reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Yeah, well that was to get to meet his real
part in there. That man.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
That's whoever, the size, whoever that saxophone is is man
or fema. They're roll around the right like this is
what y'all use my wonderful solo for. Yes, this amazing
iconic solo. Your burgery is key for this. I swear folk,
and we don't get some whoppers in here. About the
end of the week, I got smoke with you. Trash
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Speaker 4 (01:50):
Let's welcome in my co host year mister Kelvin rob Oh,
my bed, I was getting ready for my trash talk.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Is that anybody can get it today, robb G? Yeah
you over there, Steve. Anybody could get it today. Okay, Steve,
you saw like me in college my freshman year.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah. See there we go.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He starting off already, We already talking about fistic You
need the money.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We know you weren't fighting. People can throw coffee in
your face and you'll go get management.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I fought when I college. No, I fought my roommate.
Don't be showing me copp and rob G. Don't have
don't be showing me, uh your college layups to you said,
I wasn't that was a basket. I was getting buckets
back then. Don't be showing me college layups. Are you
sitting there looking like elgend Baylor? You saw that shot,
(02:38):
you were like, man, he got a little fun. I said,
you one like crazy rob looking rob G.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
That was before after the BBC.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I thought you about to say, bbl do we still
don't know how you lose it out his weight round
what we don't know?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Bb down six and I just started the good stuff six.
That's it. He's gonna catch you. I thought you gonna lose.
He's gonna catch I haven't able to jack up the
workouts yet. Okay, he's about to.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, he's gonna catch you by October for sure, which
is crazy if you're putting in all this hard work,
then he gets to just cheat.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm Barry Bonds. Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Very about Arry rolling around somewhere right now, about to
come see you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You got everybody there, everybody rolling around.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I didn't say that. That's rolling around. Hey, I've grown,
I've mature, new year knew me, don't forget. In about
forty minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We debut will be Dabu, the new Burger Kings song
here on the odd couple is it?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm about to get a snippet of it. No, not yet.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
In about forty minutes, it's Rob Parker featuring feature Calvin Washington.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Where's my check? Rob G I didn't even know I
was in it? You, Alex, Alex, you don't get no check.
That's right. This is got, This is this is motile.
This is motile. You ain't getting no money.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
It was a Robin if Fox Sports Radio. iHeart jump
Man Adidas getting no checks from the Rob Parker Mergan
definitely getting no check A couple when it is the.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Last time you saw Michael Jordans real like, real like.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The at the All Star Game for the seventy fifth
the seventy five.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Greatest Players You all right? Did he see you?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He did look at me a little strange because I'm
you know, Jordan's listen. But I'm always giving Jordan's stuff,
the prop you know, and all that.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
He walked around. He had a MLB bro in the
backseat of his car right there you go.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
All right, let's welcome in the odd couple of crew
because we wouldn't be able to do this fine radio
program with that.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I always feel low in this chair? Am I low?
Who's sitting here? Dan? I don't know, maybe Dan, Yeah,
it must be doing Dan was sitting here. All right?
You feel better now?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
What I just I just felt like the chair was
a little low, Okay, all right? Rob g is our producer,
Alex's eye engineer Steve the Sager's at the anchor DWN.
Steve and Saga is our social media Google. I'm not
gonna other guy. Is he still Elijah? Who is he employed? Yes,
(05:05):
he's off. He got using this m I gotta step
my game up.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yep. So there you go. Terrible, terrible vacation one in
two days, rob G. Today is a big anniversary in sports.
It is actually.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And I remember it clearly, the Boys and Girls Club
of was it?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
No, no, no, it was it Connecticut. It was in Connecticut.
They had it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was in Connecticut, if I remember correctly, at the
Boys and Girls Club or something?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Am I right? It was at where rob G.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What happened fifteen years ago today, July eighth, fifteen moons ago.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It was a true watershed moment for the NBA because
fifteen years ago today was the decision where Lebron James
famously left the Cleveland Cavaliers to take his talents to
South Beach and join the Miami Heat. Obviously, we've seen
a lot of think pieces come out about it today,
and the consensusy SEMs to be that that moment has
(06:02):
spawned several different avenues in NBA history. Number One, it
was the day the player empowerment era was born. Number Two,
according to multiple people, it was the day that networks
began emphasizing insiders with scoops ahead of any player transaction
because they didn't like the idea that only one guy
had this story and it was Lebron James, and they
(06:25):
wanted to have these guys to be able to have
it in advance.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So they said, all the insiders get in bed with
the agent's right, go ahead number three.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It eventually led to the full fledged evolution of the
Pace and Space era because as much as Steve Nash
and those guys were very good in Houston Orshumi in Phoenix,
nobody was really winning with that style until Lebron d
Wade and Chris Boss Chris Boss playing the five, Laurron
playing the four, and suddenly they were winning. And last
but not least, it served as the official launching point
(06:53):
of Team USA Basketball, serving as a feeder system for
the NBA Super teams because, as you know, all these
super tams have come together since then, nine percent of
them those guys played together on Team USA and Rob G.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know what else it is, It's a defining moment
in Lebron James's legacy because the things that Rob G
talked about, when you really think about Lebron's legacy, it failed.
(07:26):
Player empowerment failed Lebron right, he won his couple of championships,
but it didn't really work out. It didn't carry over.
Other people tried. A couple teams tried it.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Guess what. It also hurt Lebron.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
It came back to bite him what he was able
to do with Miami and how his career and his
ring total could be totally different, right had he not
set this up. When I think of Lebron, I think
that what he did in Miami was MySpace.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
And then Golden States said, you know, we got something
for you.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
We're gonna do Facebook, and they went and got Kevin
Durant and they won those two championships against Lebron. Those
are two more l's that hung on Lebron. So they
did it even better then Lebron did it. And when
I think of like legacy I talk about all the
time you can talk about pop Greg Popovich's five championships,
(08:27):
I think of low management. When I think of Lebron James,
I think of player empowerment that didn't work ultimately, and
now all of these restrictive CBA things that they've employed
put in all to stop that to all stop players
from moving.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Here's a double apron. You can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It's gonna cost you money, Like the players allowed the
owners to put in these really stuffed stiff penalties to
stop all of this.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So what he thought he was doing, which was.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Given players a liberation and a freedom to decide what
their careers are going to do, actually backfired, cost him
some championships and also put stricter restrictions on players and
their movement. People have abandoned this whole idea of super teams.
(09:21):
It is not a lasting legacy for Lebron James all right.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Lebron did not complete the super team for anybody other
than the fact that it was for himself. Because Lebron
knew he was about to be judged on a completely
different criteria, and so he realized. And this is one
of the questions I've had for fans, Rob and I
really mean it. Why don't fans get mad at the
right people. Fans don't get mad at James Dolan. Fans
don't get mad at Jerry Jones. Fans don't get mad
(09:46):
at Dan Gilbert because you know what Dan Gilbert did.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
He did nothing for Lebron. When Lebron was there he left.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I swear we'll win a championship before Lebron ever wins one.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Well, that wasn't kit court.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Lebron won the next year and you know, two years
and so to me, it's just it's comical. And then
Dan Gilbert only won because Lebron came back and won.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Why did he go by? And why did he go
Why did Lebron go by? If Dan Gilbert was such
a bad guy and didn't know what he was doing?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Wand glad you asked?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, because Lebron went off and won and became the
biggest thing in the NBA. Why to tell you? Because
where's a home made sense to that? It absolutely does,
because Lebron wanted to win and for.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Who this once claim that this is for you.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
He wanted to win one in Cleveland, and guess what
he did. He won in Cleveland. And so to me,
the player empowerment only moves if you're that great. People
been moving for the last and fifteen years and didn't
do nothing with it. Lebron goes to Miami and wins,
a couple, loses the couple as well. Then he goes
back to the couple as well. He did and he
goes back to Cleveland and wins again. And so my
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point is he's won four championships in twenty four years.
So my point is, how long is a person supposed
to stay in the organization that drafted them if they
done nothing. The Cavaliers did nothing before him, They didn't
do right and get guys with him. This is a
real thing. He didn't do anything. They didn't do anything
for him. Booby Gibson was a starting point guard. They
had drew good years. You want to go over there.
(11:13):
Win total during the Lebron Cleveland years? Were they the
number one seed? Did they win.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Sixty games every year?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But they didn't have anybody? Okay, put in the playoffs,
they didn't have anything. I just said that Lebron, how
they win, but they couldn't win with leron. But he
couldn't win in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Because I'm saying the team he beat the Piston by hisself.
I'm glad you apkay, So what happened?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Michael Jordan didn't do anything either until Pippen became Pippen,
until he got Phil Jackson. He just put up a
bunch of points. And that's a fact. He was getting
swept in first round. He wasn't getting out the second round.
And that's okay because no one does it alone. Rob
Magic Johnson walked into Jamal Wilkes, Norm Nixon, Kareem Abdu
before that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
But he go, look at the Lakers before them. How
many championships did they win before?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You got my point? The vitalized that friend. That's my point.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But I have to do it with Kareem, who was
the best player when they were there in the first
half years. Magic will tell you that and then it's
Kareem and in Magic. So I'm not knocking you need people,
is my point.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm talking about his legacy. It ain't Nobody thinks of
him as the all time greatest scorer like Kareem was forever.
That's not what you think about when you think about Lebron.
You think about he ushered in the legacy of trying
to stack his team to win, and that's.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What he wanted to do. I don't get he went
so you're missing the genesis lost. The reason why this
happened was because the Cavs were doing nothing and he
realized you all are only gonna judge me on winning
championships period. I'm the same player talent wise, I'm good.
(12:57):
I'm winning MVPs. I've got to drag the team to
the finals of two thousand and seven. You're only going
to judge me on winning championships. The team is doing
nothing for seven years at six seven eight years old, man,
so he leaves up.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You know what to sit here and say they did nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
They got him everybody he wanted, even Jack, even Shaq
won Cavaliers.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
No Howlready get there forty?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
How did he get there? How did he get there?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He was? Why was he on that team? He was
Shack forty?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Asking you how Lebron didn't want him brought Shack? You're
argument asking that might be the worst argument you've ever seen.
Answered the forty year old Shack who would like to
get there? Lebron didn't want him, but he got there.
Why are you bringing up how did Shaq get to Cleveland?
They because I'll tell him I'm asking. Let me answer
the question, answer it easily. They always a dollar late
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and a dollar day later. Lebron, who are looking the
decisions Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Come on, they're always a day Lebron wants only want
a forty year olds. He don't want a thirty four
year old, Shack still balling. He wants a forty year old.
He wants to have Lebron say as Lebron said, I
don't want Shack. The Cavaliers wouldn't have done it. The
Cavaliers wouldn't have die. The Miami Heat got still something
in the tank. Shack, Lebron got every Shack talks about
(14:14):
how washed up he was. Ben Wallace wasn't the same.
They did nothing. He leaves and wins.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Doing nothing means you didn't bring in anybody. That's what
doing nothing is. Naming somebody. I'll wait doing nothing, you
said they did nothing. Doing nothing means you don't bring anybody.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
No, no, no. It might not have worked out, but.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
You can't say they didn't do anything if you're telling me,
if your that thread, they brought in a four year
old Ben Wallace won four defensive.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Plan with years over.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So what I'm saying is they didn't bring in anybody
the right time. So he went and got it himself
into the tune of the Cavaliers doing nothing before during
while he was there. The first run, he comes back
and wins. So all I'm saying is he had to
go create what he was. What he was never gonna
get there in.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
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Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Basically, Lebron fifteen years since the decision is his legacy
that the player empowerment.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
And rod set has failed. It failed.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I say he is. Thank god he's been the face
of the leave for fifteen years. To be boring with
out on what else will we have? Whether you love
him or hate him, at least we had something which
you want. Jason Tatum, the.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Lay fifteen years, the league is going down. It hasn't
been it hasn't been improved.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
All right? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox A Robot.
I'm Jason Robert in Seattle. You're on the couple Fox
Sports Radio. What's up, Robert?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Hey, guys, thanks you having me on. I just want
to make the point about Lebron's support in Cleveland before
the decision. They won sixty one games last year. The
next year was essentially the same team. They only won
nineteen games.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How did they win sixty one, though, Robert? How did
they win sixty one?
Speaker 8 (18:04):
Okay, so there was nobody.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They actually won.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
They actually won fifty or more and four of the
seven years that he was there, the last five if
you really look at it, once he became established and
not in the first couple of years, they won fifty
or more games every year.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Did you know you're propping up him?
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The same team?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Okay, right, Robert Gibson go to the All Star Game.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Dip though, just to give you an impact of the
surrounding cast.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Stop it, stop it all right, have a terrible, great point.
Eric in Austin, you're on the couple of Fox Sports
Radio Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What's up, Kevin.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
Rod?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
You are completely off base here.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
What are you talking about? Listen?
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Like Kelvin said Lebron needed help in Cleveland the first
time around, he didn't get any help. He didn't have
the Robinson's batman. You're bringing the old bit walls of
old sack, Eric snow like Rush.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You're saying Booby gives it to the Fall Game, the
Star Game.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Don't look it up. Don't look it up.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
From if Booby Gibson is Judi Galaxy by your second
best players, you're not doing much.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
How did you win sixty one game arab but he
couldn't win in the playoffs. Huh is that what you're
telling me?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I'm sorry, lebroh okay, all right, Oh crying it kills me.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
He only could exactly.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
When he wins, it's just about him and he did it.
But when they lose, it's because he doesn't have anybody else.
It doesn't make sense, it doesn't. You'll answer that, No,
you can't. I would agree with you. That makes I
would agree with some ladder portions. I would agree with
that ladder, even that first round, even here though even
here wait, wait, we're looking around going oh a D.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I don't know we should need help. He got Luca,
one of the best players in the league. Oh, I
don't want to stick around him. I don't have help.
I mean the guys.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
You need a.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Victim of his own success think and all I need
is this this at the latter portion of his career.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I'll give you that them first ten years or so,
Brod was out there.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
You've met Shaq and Ben Wallace and Boobie Gibson and
akis Drew Gooden.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
They won, They won sixty one game one. Let me
help you.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You keep doing that you know, if he won, then
he lost in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He did okay, he did not the team and he
was solo call in Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Hey guys, thanks for taking our call. And Rob I
got your back on this.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
This is this is why he's a.
Speaker 9 (20:53):
Poster boy for the player Empowerment era. When he left Miami,
I asked the same question, why is he leaving Miami?
He won two championships. I've recently learned that from inside
India insiders. He wanted Eric's sposed to fire, yes, and
and part rally said, are you kidding me? Sit down somewhere.
(21:13):
So he said, well, I'm leaving, and Para Rally said bye.
He goes to Cleveland, he wants to coach fire, He
stay fired, and he goes to l A. They win
a championship, Bogo fire, cams fire everywhere he goes. The
coaches are fine.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yep, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You didn't he didn't leave out a few other facts
those Cleveland hadn't won anything in the entire city in
fifty four years.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Then they went with him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Then he goes to Lakers, who hadn't won anything since
what was it twenty you're.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Talking about that they had Kobe here? What anything? Since?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
They haven't won anything since since Kobe is what you're
saying twenty Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And how many years was that was that?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Like that was ten years and Lebron came and they won.
That's what I'm saying. I know, is Lebron win. I
know every franchise he went to one. I knows he
played twenty.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Three franchise he went to one and he won four.
Every franchise one rock. That's crazy. That is nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Every franchise is Kevin in Culver City. You're on the
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Kevin.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Good all the time? Hey man, Lebron won his championships.
But you gotta give him some criticism.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah, he gets no, no, no, Kelvin's on the payroll.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I criticized him.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Alex Caruso, Kyle Kuzma case. After they won the championship,
he got rid of the whole team for Westbrook. He
cost that championship.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Wind with thank you nov keV.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
You were gave you the first He didn't get rid
of them, Yes, he did got rid of the first batch.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
To Brandon Ingram's and he got.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Rid of the second batch to Westbrook. He wanted the albatross, yes, contract,
and they couldn't moved that. Another thing too, that player
in Parliament Era destroyed the Clippers. They cost the Clippers
cycle of six first Rock.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
He went too far, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, we appreciate the
car destroyed.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
keV.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Don't bring up don't bring up the Clippers. keV. You're
wanding right about Lebron and his legacy. All right, yeah,
all right, yeah.
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Speaker 8 (23:34):
What I Bean, what's up? Brothers doing?
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We said, you know, let's just you know, let's just
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Speaker 8 (23:52):
Man, appreciate that you put a button.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
On this real quick for us.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Today mark fifteen years since the decision Lebron and the paraphrase.
Rob says that that started the player and power movement
when he failed, which failed for him, which failed? I
said Lebron had to do that because he could go
another seven years in Cleveland and do nothing, and then
we would judge him here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
He ain't got no rings, and you know he had,
he could.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Have won that experience, just didn't have the time of
patience like Michael Jordan waited in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
You said he didn't have the Pippin and Phil Jackson
and went to that. I couldn't hear you. What'd you say?
Speaker 8 (24:26):
No, Look, it was obvious that Cleveland they weren't putting
a team around him that could really win the championship.
Because Lebron was as great as he was, so fast,
they competed in a very very weak Eastern Conference, but
they weren't gonna be able to get over the hump,
not with the likes of the Spurs and everybody like.
(24:48):
They weren't gonna be able to get over that hump
in the finals. And then the Celtics did what they did?
What did they do?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
What did the Celtics do?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
They went out and formed a Big three?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
No, so they made trades to form a team. They
did not do what Lebron did.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
It's you have to give to get. It ain't the
same stop.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
It hold on very what we what we what we
very rarely see at all in any sport when someone
the caliber of Lebron, which is one of the top,
you know, five six players in the league at the time,
actually make it to free agency and actually get a
chance to pick where they want to go. And so
(25:32):
the fact that he, you know, was loyal and true
to Cleveland for what seven years I believe, what was
it seven years? And he saw what was happening around
the league and he decided to, you know, do something
about it as and use that moment in time to
(25:54):
go and join his friends and put the team together
that can actually compete.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And it actually cost them to It cost him two
championships because the Warriors took what he did and they
won upped him. He was my Space and they facebooked
and that, and I'm just saying so it worked against him.
Actually it cost him and changed the way people look
at him. To play that many years and only have
four championships.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
He lost more than he won.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Rob Rob, Did he win two championships in Miami?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But that but how that was a failure in Miami.
That was a failure. That was that was that was
a failure. It was a failure in Miami.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
It was two.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Because he won two championships because previously he had none.
So saying that someone it was a failure when someone
really accomplishes their goal twice over, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Here we go for you or you five not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, not saying.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Oh yeah, and when I say that, I really believe it.
I mean when I say that, I really.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Believe it, and he ain't getting close to that.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I love bring up pet rallies and I also love
that they lost to the Dallas Maverick.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And that's okay, Dallas kidding me.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I love that as well.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
That's a big blemish on the Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Well yeah, I mean, look, Lebron James has been ultra successful,
not the most successful, but he's probably had the best
NBA career than any player ever.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
He's a facility and.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
All of it and all of that. But what I
will say is, when you start talking about the greatest
player ever, I don't know if longevity has ever been
a part of that conversation in terms of just basically
your your your work, right, Like, what have you done
for however long you've played to be considered the greatest?
(28:00):
And for me, that's why you know MJ. Even though
I've never been a Bull fan, but I'm a basketball fan,
so I can recognize that MJ's the greatest of all
time based on his body of work when he played.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Hey, from switching gears a little bit, I want to
go to something. We're going to have a conversation about
this a little bit later on real quick, but just
your thoughts on what Kirk Cousin has kind of said
about his position there. Had he known the Falcons were
going to draft a quarterback and had they known with
the Falcons and then because he left Minnesota knowing they
were going to draft on early. Just do what you
have to make of Kirk Cousins and kind of on
(28:32):
the new episode of The Court QB Show on Netflix, saying,
had he known, he might have reconsidered some things and
what else where.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
He wasn't reconsidering that what that guaranteed money they gave him.
I don't think anybody else is going to give him
that level of contract coming off from the Achilles injury,
and so don't I don't think that it was going
to be, you know, any other team at that point
for Kirk Cousins. The best deal to me seemed like
(29:03):
the only thing really on the table.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, well, I mean he and not to mention it too.
I think I said, i'mna talk about a little bit later,
but he no one is in the room to complain
with all the money he's made at the end of
his career.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It doesn't matter like money, Like money doesn't matter, you
know that there's still a part of how you're treated
right and how people do stuff and whether or not
they said stuff to you to lead you to believe
something that's what this is about. Nobody sits in and go, oh,
I don't get I don't care. I just want money.
People have been with, people have been disrespected, he from,
people have been lied to, and you know this.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
That doesn't solve everything. It doesn't. Of course, of course
it's good, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
If you got hired, if you get hired a spectrum
and they tell you you're gonna be the anchor the
morning show and they're bringing a young guy and he
starts putting you on the show, and then you would
be like, I thought outsigned the contract for this, right,
I thought this was my show.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
But we also know we also know uh and Kirk
Cousins knows this and any other professional ad lead under
contract and some things have happened that you can't control
any of it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Agreed, But I'm just saying it doesn't mean that you
can't feel good. We're good about it.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Those conversations happen all the time across business. You can
come in feeling like yeah, okay, okay, and then it
can tift at the drop of a dime. And so
he's been in the league, and you gotta remember Kirk
Cousins have He's dealt with things like this before, so
it shouldn't have been such a big shock to him
because he is seasoned and been in the league where
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things then ultimately turned in his favor.
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Speaker 4 (31:52):
All right, I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Uh, the Atlanta Braids minus one and a half taken
on the A's in Sacramento. So we got the Brave
minus one and a half. That's the best bet. Then
we're gonna go with the Giants minus one and a half.
They're hosting the Phillies in the Bay Area, and then
the Padres minus one and a half at home taking
(32:15):
on the Arizona Diamondback.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
So again, best bet.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Take the Brays minus one and a half, take the
Giants minus one and a half, and take the Padres
minus one and a half. And remember, I'm not telling
you who to bet on. I'm telling you who I
bet on. I don't forget I knew that. Wait till
you hear this long because we did that. We did that.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
That's coming up right after this golf down to right
field in deep talk, fit in it. Jock Bargers left
the yard two runs shot in the sixth.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It's five to one.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
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Speaker 4 (33:14):
It is the way tire buying should be. And Rob,
would you like to intro? Yes, you know I wrote
this like twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I was trying to become a TV commercial writer and
I was like sweating and blood my blood, sweating tears
to break into the business. I just couldn't get anybody
from Burger King to return my phone call. And now
after they hear this, they just might we might have
this show. And like Burger King commercial proprietory right, we
(33:42):
get some rights to it right, So here we go
free whoppers.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
The new Burger King commercial.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Rob g is like rolling his eyes like I can't
wait to hear this terrible song. And Alex and Ricky,
you guys are the best because they put some time
and energy we hear them.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Doctor Dreda is thinking, okay, here it is what the
game on your burger is?
Speaker 10 (34:06):
Key, you're the ruler for everyone.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I wrote that mustn't have been an angel by my side.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Wrapping in upon you.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Give me some extra pickles just because.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Jo Burger's kid, your meat is we I don't know
about that. The last part look crazy? Ain't last part
is a little crazy? Gee? What are you doing over there?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
First of all, Alex, Bravo, Alex and Ricky, you guys
are not.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He's over there doing actual work. So here's what's crazy.
But first of all, I didn't get the sign of
NDA or anything. I just I'm just out here an
these streets putting up versus.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
You got a you're featured on it. I did not
know I was featured.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Alex and Ricky, y'all didn't call me permission, You didn't
send it to my agent.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
As long as you're in the eye couple, we do
whatever we Okay, Okay, that's what of me talking about
agent Scott?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
What? Robbed you? You know, God has no comedy?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
What.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
I'm glad you liked it, Rob? What can we hear
it again? Alex? One more time? One more time? Put
the game one. You're the ruler for everyone, y'all.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Reb I wrote that age of by my side.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Wrapping, give me some extra pickles just because.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
This part, this part was that part was a little crazy,
but the last part it was gonna be your meat
is real. I need a happy meal.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Like that part of the McDonald's I would have been
mad at it. With all that been an advertising commercial
like y'all did. All that had us so over the
first one minute and fifty nine seconds, and then this this,
we'd have been in Oklahoma City thunder, and then we
got Haller Burton.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
At the end, there was some Burger King executive who's
driving around right now who just heard that, and it's like.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
What, how did I miss this for two decades?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The worst The worst they can do is look, put
it online, put it on something, and then they can
give us some free whoppers, and then you can come
back around eat meat, hold up, and.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Then you can you can get some free whoppers too.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Can you just imagine me, you and shaw Day doing
what would you?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (37:01):
Let me tell you, Let me tell you who's not
coming from from Britain for that shot. I'm my biggest fan.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
We are both her biggest and that's how that whole
segment started.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Her biggest fan.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Shod Day is incredible, and you always say that I
don't like any black performers. I want you to know
that I love Shada the same capital l If she
walked by fast enough, people might not know she's black.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Shot. You like Tim Cevie Nicks. You hear me, Rob,
You're like Tim's Tim.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
You like Sizza who knows so women a little more mellenated.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I'm trying to check in with you.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
No, no, no, I'm just saying Shaw day Man, Alex Bravo.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Summer Walker. Rob g is just a hater, Jasmine Sullivan.
Why my hater?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Claud didould say that it's great and you love it
and you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Like don't you want to be objective?
Speaker 8 (37:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I want you to be like Rob Roddy couple. All right,
Roger the scale of one to ten, be honest. Otherwise
you could go work over at that other network. I
wouldn't love to be Hey, be honest. Then you get
a threat by the way, you don't you don't want
to work over there, You don't he already worked there.
He's telling you don't do it, you don't work put
the camera on. Well, if you're him, you know what.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
As far as some of your other songs, this one
is one of the better ones. The production value is incredible.
They they Timberland, Doctor Dre, you know, Swiss beats, all
of it.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They put it all over Pharrell and I really love
Jones out of know where the saxophone solo for no reasons.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Yeah, well that was to get to meet his real
part in there. That man.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
That's whoever, the size, whoever that saxophone is is man
or fema. They're roll around the right like this is
what y'all use my wonderful solo for. Yes, this amazing
iconic solo. Your burgery is key for this. I swear folk,
and we don't get some whoppers in here. About the
end of the week, I got smoke with you. Trash
talking Tuesday,
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Rob Parker
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