October 7, 2020 • 37 mins
Chris Broussard and Rob Parker debate LeBron James’ calling yesterday’s Game 4 with the Miami Heat one of the “biggest games” of his career, Chris calls out Rob for saying LeBron only came to Los Angeles to make movies, and Ron Rivera’s already made a choice on Dwayne Haskins in Washington as the NFC East appears to be WIDE OPEN!
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you may be listening a lot of NBA talk as
the Lakers move within one win of a historic Finals championship,
and then we got baseball playoffs to talk about analytics
strikes again in the Bronx. How many times we're gonna
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see this right? Oh my god, it's real and it
doesn't have to be stuck to baseball. We always say
that it's infiltrated all the sports, but my goodness, some
mind boggling decisions because of it, robbed. And then of
course we got NFL and they're dealing with some COVID issues,
so we're getting all that and more. We got comedian
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Gary Cohen, Gary Owen, I'm sorry coming up at the
bottom of the hour. And Rob I don't know if
you saw his tweet. He says, it's not even a discussion.
Lebron James is the goat, you know, the profession comedian. Yes, yes,
and you know what, he proved that right there with that. Yes,
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we will leave the sports right, leave it to us.
You go ahead and make your little jokes because that's
a joke. Well, we will give him the business, that's
for sure, all right. We got the Eye Couple crew
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Both welcome to the show. Both dates. We have bran
In Haye Finley, the Low Equations one listen for the verbs.
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All right, let's get right into a robe. Last night. Look,
I thought the game was perfect. I'm not saying it
was the greatest game in the world. What I'm saying is,
as a guy that picked the Lakers to win in five,
and you know how it is, you want your picks
to win, you want your picks to be right. So
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I wanted the Lakers to win, but I wanted a
little drama, a little intrigue, a little suspense, as I
always say, a little spice. And we got that. It
was a good competitive game. You didn't know who was
going to win. Miami left it all on the court.
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Props to them. They are outmanned, overmatched, and they keep coming.
They play hard, and obviously the Lakers outlasted them to
take a three one lead. I couldn't have asked for more.
I wanted the Lakers to win, but I didn't want
to route. I didn't want a game that was over,
you know, midway through the second quarter. And so I
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thought he worked out well. Lebron James, after a bad start,
just just to put it bluntly, five turnovers in the
first half, came on with a really strong second half
in which he scored twenty points. Eleven points in the
fourth quarter accounted for sixteen of their twenty seven points.
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I thought he was big. He hit big threes, he
drove to the hole and ends up with another twenty eight,
twelve and eight and rob. I think I may have
mentioned I don't know if I mentioned this on the show,
but yesterday on television in the morning Undisputed, I predicted
I said Lebron will go for twenty eight points, twelve rebounds,
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and nine or ten assists. I was one assist off.
I think you throw that number out every time he plays. Don't. No,
I don't. I don't. I rarely throw out number. I
was still waiting, do I make him count? I was
waiting for Channing Small Friday to talk about the sixty
that he was gonna drop yesterday. Can we get him
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on line one? I'd like to get him on and
I don't know if he's coming to it. I mean,
you beat him up so bad, yeah, coming back on
this show. I'm gonna try to get him back or
I do think he's hesitant. You know what he just
texts me. He said, no way, no how but you
you not surprisingly you you got beef with Lebron. Ohho hum,
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it's it's Wednesday. Of course you got beef with Lebron.
You think that he's what trying to oversell this great accomplishment.
I mean, what, what, what's the deal? Yeah? I just
when when Lebron goes into I just think that everything's calculated.
This is just me. It's my opinion, Chris, not based
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on I don't talk to Lebron. I don't know him.
I haven't really talked to him one on one since
he was in high squash. No, I'm just saying, like,
you know, I'm being up front, like I haven't talked
to I talked to him one on one when he
was a high school senior. Okay that I'm just being honest,
like like face twenty years you know what I'm saying,
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Like like seriously, seventeen eighteen years something. Yeah, that's what
That's when I last I talked to him in that setting.
But I'm saying, uh, the idea that this was some
great game of his career and oh my god, you
know he called it, well, he called it a must win.
Do we have that quote? I don't know if we do,
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but he called it a must win he sent a text.
Big story that he sent a text to his teammates
before the game saying must win two words, must win,
and that was inspirational to them. But here's the quote.
I think that uh got under your skin. I'm just
morning after our team meeting. I just I just felt that,
I felt that vibe, I felt that I felt that pressure.
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I felt like for me personally, this was one of
the biggest games of my career. I just wanted to
relay that message to my teammates. We type of zone
I was in, the type of moment it was well.
Obviously when he came out for the first half, it
wasn't because he was thinking in the first half. But
I'll say this, for him to say that that was
the biggest game of his question, one of the biggest,
that's what he say. Even to say one of the
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biggest is Boulder Dash and poppy Cock. Okay, first of all,
they had the lead in the Series two one. Miami
had gotten bamned back Chris, but they were down still
forty percent of their starting This isn't the team, no,
none at all. I'm I'm saying, yeah, but they got
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him back, but you didn't know what he was going
to give you, is what I'm saying. Okay, so it's
hard for me. If you told me that this was
the fully loaded Miami head that knocked off Boston, that
knocked off Milwaukee, Chris whatever, maybe I would buy into it.
Maybe if they were down two to one and this
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was a huge game, then I could buy into that.
But here's a guy who came back from three to
one against the Warriors, and I don't care what shape
the Warriors were in, Chris, and who wasn't playing three
to one right there? I would say all three of
those games were huge. Down three to two against Boston
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in Boston, another huge game for me, and won his
first championship. That was right year he won his first championship. Yeah,
so I'm just saying those games to me ring out
as bigger and there's a whole cell job that has
to go in on this championship, you know what, Chris.
You know me, I'm a man of the people. I'm
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out in LA all the time and I'm running into
Laker fans and even people who are really Laker fans,
and Rob G you're one of those eyes they're even
getting like trying to build it up to feel as
good as it should feel, you know, like there's like
a cell like we gotta sell it like this is unbelievable. No, no,
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I hate it's not. And it doesn't mean that it's
not a championship or you don't count it. That's not
what I'm saying, Chris. But it's like a cell job.
And when I hear that, that's what I'm getting from Lebron,
rather than people saying they're gonna wind up beating a
broken down a Miami team that got hurt, you know,
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hurt lost two players in Game one and never had
a shot after that, and so there's this whole build
up of trying to make it more dramatic than it
really is. That that's all, And that's what I got
from that quote. I disagree, and I think some of it,
Like you said, you haven't talked to Lebron since he
started shaving, so I get it. That's where I think
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you're off. I think Lebron has learned over the years
to stay in the moment, stay in the moment, don't
think about the ramifications, the repercussions, what people are saying.
Stay in the moment and being in the moment meant,
this is one of the biggest games of my career
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and one of leaves it open. Rob. I'm with you.
If he had said it's the biggest game of my career,
obviously he's had what I think everyone jeopardy even if
they lost. Hold on you, you were asking me and
everyone we had on as a guest. They talked to NBA,
what if the Heat win. If they win and if
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they got all their team back, it would be it
would be something to worry about. That's what I say.
But but if they won, let's say they had won
last night and it's two two and goring Drogers, Let's
just say he can't come back. Heck, they will have
won the last two games without Drogice, and so I
mean they will have been to me as dangerous as
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good as he is. I think they would have been
dangerous if they had won the last two games without
of me. What I'd always say about about the NBA,
the great uh equal lodge or neutralizer, and the whole
thing Chris is is the four out of seven beating
Lebron and them four out of seven. Well, I always
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I always think that's that's the part. Can they beat him?
A couple games, sure they can well, but without a
full squad they can't do it. But they they I
have no problem with what Lebron said because again, one
of he could be talking about one of the top ten,
one of the ten most important games of his career,
and it's the most important game. Now. If he lost
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this seat like last night we had Dave Miller and
it was a swing game, lose it and not only
is it tied to two, but Miami has the momentum
and into the Lakers. Would that had made Game five
the biggest game of his career? Had they lost that too,
If he's staying in the moment, then I guess so.
And then game six that they lost that that would
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be the biggest game, right, But what's wrong with saying that?
At It's it's the here's the thing, and you you're
talking about build up this game, this championship. Why do
they have to build it up? This is huge? This
will make him the first player ever to lead three
separate franchises to NBA championships. That's huge, but could give
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him a title with the Lakers. You and I talked
about it before even came here. But if it comes here, Lebron.
You gotta know that every one of your statures save
Elgin Baylor, has delivered a championship to the Lakers. Jerry West,
Kareem Shock, Will, Kobe Magic, They they all delivered championship.
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You can't come here and just be an actor and
have your businesses and and make the Lakers relevant again.
You gotta deliver the ring. He's about to deliver the
ring in a year where tragically Kobe Bryant was killed.
I mean, this is big. There's no cell job that
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needs to be made. This is huge. I'm telling you
that people will celebrate it, but I don't think it
has the juice of a normal championship. I really don't.
I don't. I don't know if it's just Miami or
people don't believe in Miami having a shot. I'm not
saying it is Chris. I'm into the bar. The Clippers
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couldn't hold up there. And I'm just talking about the
Laker fans. And I talked to who are big Lebron
fans and big Laker fans? Are you saying they're selling it? That?
Does that mean that they're talking it up like they
think it's huge or what the Laker fans, you're no, no, no,
they're saying, I'm not that juiced up about it, like
I know they're gonna win, but they don't have it.
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It ain't like, oh my god, I can't he he
did it. I can't believe. That's because we know who
they're playing. They're not. They can't get beat by Miami.
They gotta beat themselves. That's what I'm saying about it,
but making it. You just said it, they can't be
beat by Miami, but say, yes, but it's a miracle.
But that would be like an upset. Yeah, it would
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be a huge upset. But but I'm talking about the masses.
Most people didn't think Miami had a shot. That's why
you picked them in five games. Some people picked them
in the Lakers in the sweep. That's all I'm saying
is that that's the lebron cell job to make it,
to make it tougher, like like, oh my god, I
can't believe we beat Miami. Really but but he virgo,
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he's not saying that. Secondly, I think that's the right mentality,
Rob if you were going up against you mentality and
trying to sell something where who's saying he's selling something.
He's letting you in on his mindset. Look, I can't
go in there. You can't go into a game thinking, man,
these dudes are chumps. We got to play our C
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plus game and beat them. You gotta go in like
respecting these dudes, taking them seriously. If we lose this
game all of a sudden, who knows what could happen.
We've given them life, they're getting healthy. No, we gotta
go out here and put the nail in the coffin.
I just think that's the right mentality to have. I
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don't think he's selling it all right, eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine sixty three
sixty nine. You're turning the way in. Does it sound
to you like Lebron is still trying to juice up
the narrative surrounding this Bubble championship or is he just
letting you in on the mind of a king. We'll
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That's right, Get in the zone. Auto Zone, all right, Rob,
let's get into this. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox was Lebron Is he trying to talk this finals up?
As Rob says, to make it seem really big. I
think he's just in the moment and he's sharing his
mentality with you. I got no problem with it. Where
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are you at on this? All right? Let's kick it
off with Dre and Michigan. You're on the odd Couple
of Fox Sports Radio. Sub Drake and what's going on? Fellas?
What up? Man? You gotta hey? Rob, you're a man
and Hunt Grand but I gotta roll with Chris on
this one, Bro, because even you yourself said it that
this season was very important to lebroncos how many more
opportunities he had left point. But not only just that,
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but you gotta think about what the COVID situation, all
the social and rest me let me rebuttle, let me
let me give you something. Yes, I get that, But
to say that that game with the two to one lead,
they weren't behind. When they played Golden State, they were
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down three to one with no wiggle room. This game
can't match up to that. And when they were down
in Boston three to two. That's all I'm saying is
that they weren't had an advantage. They were up again,
they weren't down. He didn't say it was the biggest game.
He didn't say it was bigger than those games. But
how about this. If they had lost Game five to
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the Warriors in twenty sixteen and gone out for one,
nobody would have been like, oh, they blew it. They
were expected to lose. The Warriors that won seventy three games,
this one never expected to win. Rob. Losing this series
would be a lot more damage. In this series. They're up,
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they weren't down. Chris. If it was down twa, you're
giving them no life. You're giving it even a pit
bulls light. You're not behind if you win. If you
were behind two to one, I would buy into it more.
That's all I'm saying. Tony and Los Angeles, you're in
the odd couple of Fox Sports raded. What's up, Tony?
What up? Rod? What's up? Chris? What's up? Man? Chris?
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He brought up the number three real quick. Look, they're
only three things as a kid. That that made me
feel good. That was warm soup church on Sunday in Disneyland.
Lebron look he gonna win the third tip with his
third team, but he did on the back of three
different players. KCP made the shot last night bat Kyrie
in Cleveland. Come on, MANCP has saved Lebron. Really, are
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you really fixing your mouth to say that that Lebron
James was carried by CACP. Really, you know who assisted
KCP on that big three? Lebron James. Lebron had eleven
points in the fourth quarter, hit all seven of his
free throw attempts. We know he's not a good free
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throw shooter or a great one, but he delivered stop it,
Tony trying to belittle what Lebron is done. Unbelievable. Tony
is in the house, Tony and Maryland, you're on the yard.
A couple of Fox Sports raded what's up Tony? Hey, guys,
thanks taking my call. Listen. I gotta agree with Rob
on this one. From this point of view, every championship
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in any sports this year comes with an asterix. Okay,
Rob doesn't say that. Rob's not saying that. I think
it does. I think every sport comes with an asteris
because it's not normal. There's nothing normal. But but I
believe and keep him to keep Tony on and asterix,
and I think Rob agrees with me. Correct me if
I'm wrong, Rob, and asterix is for when the champion
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or winner has an unfair advantage that no one else had,
or even an advantage even that no one else had.
What advantage has to have the Lakers had? They got
no more advantage than anybody else. I don't agree with
your assessment of why that asteris should be there. Why
shouldst be there? The astras should be there because there
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is nothing normal about what's going on right now and
our and our everybody's going through it. It doesn't. It doesn't.
He does, the Clippers, the Lakers the right, It didn't matter.
I'm sorry, that's my point of your wrong. You can
put an asteris by so much. Let's put an asterix
by last year's ring that Toronto won because Kevin Durant
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was hurt. That wasn't normal. And the Lake Thompson got hurt.
So two of the three best players on the team
got hurt. That should be an asterisk. It's just not normal.
Come on, man, please, Justice in Virginia. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Justice? I
have to say, Chris, I agree with you. Rob. I'm sorry, brother,
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but you're wrong. I believe that Lebron doesn't have to
sell this one. This Justice or Joseph, this is Justice. Okay,
go ahead, you sound like Joseph Virginia. Well, sorry, Well,
I believe that it's already sold itself. I believe that
they worked hard for this championship, and the Lakers they
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deserved it. Lebron he's gonna get his third championship, and
most importantly, I think for the organization, this is fourth
champions third with a different with three teams. Yeah, and
it'll be and it'll be the seventeenth title for the Lakers. Yeah.
I think where Lebron will make it, Yes, and I
think where he will make yourself as the one of
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the best Lakers is winning that eighteenth one next season.
You guys have a great one. Thank you. What about
Dwight and Charlotte real quick, because squeeze Dwight in if
you're quick, Dwight, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up? Hey, good heaven. Michella's appreciate you
taking my card. I'll listened to you every night. I
tell you, man, these Lebron haters unbelievable. And Rob Parker man,
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you make my ears plea how you hate on Lebron
so much? So let me tell you. Let me say
this real quick, fellers, I'm gonna let y'all go okay. Now,
if Kawhi Leonard was still uh, if the Clippers were
still in the playoffs and Kawhile was still playing, you
would be doing card where talking about him winning his
third championship with a third team. Come on, bro Lebron,
When and when Lebron trying to do it? Oh no, no,
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you got me wrong, because you never heard you. No,
you didn't because you didn't hear me say that that
that the championship doesn't count or anything. You did not
hear me say that you never be praised. I don't
think you be saying I wouldn't say that. What would
what would make kawise thing different is that he would
have won back to back championship with two franchises who
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had never won. And that's the part, Chris, that would
have been so unbelievable and would have year we could
talk about. It still would have been unbelievable. It still
would have been would have been unbelievable. It would but
it would have been big, but it wouldn't have been unbelievable.
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Search f SR to listen live. Rob. I think this
is a huge championship for the Laker. I mean, I
get it. They should beat Miami. I get it. They
you know them and the Clippers that was supposed to
be the big matchup would have been a tougher series,
I think than Denver. But you know, we didn't get
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to see that. But their seventeen title, as Finlay said,
matching Boston, now, I've all I've long felt like they
were the best and winning this essentially the winning this
franchise in NBA history, even though Boston had that, you know,
they advantage in banners because of the Bill Russell years.
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But obviously since Bill Russell left, you know, Boston hadn't
come anywhere near the success that the Lakers have had.
So I've always thoughts of the Lakers as the best franchise,
but now they can time it's really in your lifetime
or what you remember, but not not banners wise, I
know what you're saying, right, But even even if you
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go for consistency like the Lakers, obviously in the seventies,
in the seventies they were really good. They only won
one championship the last one was seventy nine eighty Magic's
first year, but really one championship. But they obviously had Will,
Jerry West, Elgin, Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Kareem and then Magic
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goes there. They're great in the eighties, you know, they're
they're good. You know they they're They're not champions in
the nineties for the most Partum but they're still relevant.
They end up getting shocked, and then the two thousands
they're great. Two thousand and tens, you know, they were
down a little, but they they've just been more consistent.
I mean, Boston, you had the bird years, they got three,
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and then you had you know, the Big Three with Gardinette,
Pearson Allen and that was it, you know recently and
the last what's that forty years, So you're right, it's
my lifetime. But uh, I just think over consistency over
the decades, they've been there pretty much, you know, every decade.
I just think it's what you you know, what we
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what we all witnessed, and you feel better about it
because you watched it. I get what you're saying. It's
more spread out. But at the same time, if you
had talked about this in the seventies, you would say,
but it's not years ago, right, or the fifth or
the eight you know, you would have said, will this Celtics,
And you know they were looked at that point. It
wasn't because yeah, yeah, Celtics won championships two in the seventies,
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um and then of course the eighties, so yeah, at
that point they were by far the better franchise. But
now I think it's the Lakers and they'll have the
banner to say it. And then the year, you know,
if Kobe's tragic death, like I said, Lebron delivering on
that championship that you and I both said, you you
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gotta deliver. You got to deliver now you you and
you said to Rob when he came here. You had it.
It was a good joke. It was one of your
better ones. I'll give it to you. I mean I
heard it eighty four times. That took away a little
bit of its punch, but it was good the first
seventeen times I heard it. Lebrin came here to be
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Meryl Streep remember that one, yes, because because his first
year he was into everything except basketball. He looked like
he didn't have focus when he first came in. You
know it, I know it, Yes, you do, don't It
was about he was doing a million day, he was
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doing a million things. Barbara shot and space jam and
he was doing all these businesses. No, it just seemed
like what wait a minute, what what? And And that
was the first time too. Uh. You know, it just
seemed like I remember him saying he was playoff activated
or whatever they call it. And then that fell apart.
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That didn't work, and guys didn't like him because he
basically called out his teammates that he didn't want them.
I don't know, it was just last year was didn't
seem like the focus Lebron, who normally make sure he
has his dak stack with with stack with players and
his is the stack decking? Is that how you right now? Yes,
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against my heavy stack. But you and I both agree
that the Clippers had more talent. Yeah, but I'm talking
about him. An Anthony Day was, well, you got another
great player. You have that. I'm not holding that against
him because guess what if he Johnson as great as
he was, everybody without another, nobody's holding it against him.
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But it's this is more like Lebron, That's all I'm saying.
And before it wasn't last year when he got hurt.
They were the second seed in the West. They beat
Golden State on Christmas Day. If Chris, if I'm not
what stop what you talking about? What argument is that?
Are that argument? That's that's garbage because they had a
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chance last year to make the playoffs. They had a chance,
and you know what, they know they're not doing space jam. Now,
no they didn't. They didn't, not this moment, but they
didn't like they had they had a chance and and
to make the playoffs and he failed during that time. Okay,
that don't mean you said he came here to be
and he came. Yes, he came here and just seemed
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like they were doing that. Give you that was wrong. No,
I'm not because at the time I didn't say that
this year. I said that at the time when he
came LA. Yes, he met the time, and I based it,
and I based it off of what he was doing
at the time. You didn't say he came to La
Meryl Streep in twenty nineteen. You say that came the
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La to be Meryl Streep. Period. I could. I didn't
say he's done with period. You said he's out of
the champions. Yes, when he came here with no team
and those young guys, he wasn't trying to win it.
He realized it. He realized he couldn't win. He was
at first or though he came, Yeah, with those young guys,
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he was gonna win. Lebron was gonna mold him and
all that, and then he realized I got you know,
he shot he was gonna win the championship. He thought
that he could come here with that with those young players.
Oh we can't trade Kyle Kuzma. Oh we can't trade
Lodo ball, Lazo ball. Jersey's gonna be in the rafters.
That was magic. No, but at that was that was
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the thinking with the Lakers. Look at this young poor
and add Water and stir and they we're gonna win
a championship. But they weren't winning no championship. And just
admit I was wrong. He didn't go Chris. He came
here to be Meryl Streep when he first showed up.
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Stop it. If he can be Meryl Streep and win
a championship, that's huge, that's huge, admit it. My goodness,
hate this, Gonna hate, hate this, Gonna hate all right,
One NFL head coach is lying right through his teeth.
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the NFL rob and people are not wasting time with moves.
They are not wasting time at all. Of course, what
a week in little Morten. I don't know what two
weeks ago, almost the Chicago Bears bench Mitch Trubisky after
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a two oh start, and then they lost their third game.
They bench him and go to Nicky Foles, and look,
you and I could have told Matt nag don't do it.
If you're gonna go to Nick Foles, wait till there's
about five regular season games left. Nothing whatsoever is expected.
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Anything he gives you his house money. He's playing with
house money. Anything he gives you is gravy. That's when
you get the best Nick Foles. But when you put
him into early name him the starter, where you got
a chance to make the playoffs, and people are expecting
him to do great things though he's not built for that.
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And now they I wouldn't be surprised if they go
back to Drubisky, you think so, I mean foals? Come on? You?
Am I wrong on false? No? I've always what if
I said a million times, he's cool if you're setting
them out to go get some bread and milk from
the store. But when you toss them the keys and
say it's your car's gonna wind up getting crashed at
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some point. It's just it's true. It's who he is.
He doesn't. There are athletes and you've covered them, Rob,
I've covered them that are talented but don't want the
pressure of consistent expectations. Right. They're guys that you know
they can go out there and get your twenty. They
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got the talent to go out and get you twenty
points a night, but they don't want to be counted on,
you know, to give you twenty points a night. I
don't want to deal with that. I'd rather come in
nobody thinks, you know, I'm gonna do anything, and I
give you twenty seven. Wow, right, with no pressure, no expectations,
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and everything is like, wow, he scored twenty seven. I
was going right, right, that's Nick Foles. I don't know
what Matt Nate I mean again, Trubisky, I'm not saying
these you know, Hall of Fame potential, but I mean,
come on, you were two and one and so it'll
be interesting to see what they do. But we're seeing
the same thing similar in Washington with the football team.
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They're benching. They announced today Dwayne Haskins and he's not
even going to second string. He's the third string holding
the clipboard. Right, that's why they dropped him, you know
what I mean. Right, that's not even like you can
maybe get back in there when you get the clipboard.
You're not getting in Chris, No, really, no, you're you're right.
And and I look, I think they're starting Kyle Allen,
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who's nothing to write home about. Um, I'm just familiar
with him because he played with the Panthers, right, you
know that. And look, Rivera said, and Rivera is roundly
recognized as one of the great guys in the NFL,
honest and all that. So he's probably telling the truth.
He says, Look, our division, he didn't say it this way,
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but our division is horrible. We got a shot, we
got a great defense, which Chase coming back. I mean,
he's off to a ridiculous start, That's what I mean.
It's unbelievable. They got a nice defensive front. He's thinking,
look at Dallas, they're a joke. Look at Philly they're
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a joke. And the Giants we're We're better than the Giants.
With askins, we could actually win this division to make
the playoffs. And I get it because it is a
win now league, not really about five year plans. If
it's about a win now league, then Alex Smith should
be the quarterback's healthy. Yeah, no, I agree, but I'm serious.
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I I just I'm just saying that he's serious about
trying to win, like right now, we're gonna throw it
like like this is twenty. He's not fully there Weathers
he must you know what I mean. But you know
what I'm saying, Yes, and he's had success in the
league and he was playing well and Watchington before he
got hurt. This guy's been hurt. Uh. I'm just saying,
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I don't know, so so I mean, I agree with you,
You're right, he probably is there still a mental black
you know. I don't know, but that's that's undeniable that
he would be better than Alan if he's right now. Mate,
So for whatever they know better than we do, he
might not be right, But um, I think Rob and
they didn't couch it. You know, he didn't say it
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this way. He just said he's not ready. Haskins isn't ready.
It seems to me like Rivere's made his decision on him.
And because I get we can make the playoffs now,
but what are you gonna do with Haskins? I mean,
I think you need to find out is this is
this our guy? Because because getting a friend, I think
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I think they know. I think I really do. I
don't think you're that far off in that, you know, like,
if anything, Chris, if you had a little wiggle room,
it's now because the division isn't that right. So actually
it's the exact opposite to me, is that the division
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isn't tough. And maybe he can, you know what I mean,
win a game or two, but they don't if they
kid gets hot, yeah right, but they don't feel like that.
They obviously don't feel like that, and they're looking at
it going we just can't win with him, right, Yeah,
that's what they feel like. I don't know if he'll
I don't know if he'll ever be the quarterback again
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and again because they dropped him. The third told me
all I needed to know, I just think that. Look, obviously,
quarterbacks are playing a lot sooner than ever before, and
you're expecting more than ever before. Right, the decisions are
made used to be, you know, if a guy's not
really good till this third year, that's about what we expect, right,
But now everybody's not gonna come right in though this
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guy only started fourteen games in college. So I just
wonder if you need to make this decision this quickly,
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you may be listening a lot of NBA talk as
the Lakers move within one win of a historic Finals championship,
and then we got baseball playoffs to talk about analytics
strikes again in the Bronx. How many times we're gonna
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see this right? Oh my god, it's real and it
doesn't have to be stuck to baseball. We always say
that it's infiltrated all the sports, but my goodness, some
mind boggling decisions because of it, robbed. And then of
course we got NFL and they're dealing with some COVID issues,
so we're getting all that and more. We got comedian
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bottom of the hour. And Rob I don't know if
you saw his tweet. He says, it's not even a discussion.
Lebron James is the goat, you know, the profession comedian. Yes, yes,
and you know what, he proved that right there with that. Yes,
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we will leave the sports right, leave it to us.
You go ahead and make your little jokes because that's
a joke. Well, we will give him the business, that's
for sure, all right. We got the Eye Couple crew
DJ Alex Tisher on the ones and twos on the
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All right, let's get right into a robe. Last night. Look,
I thought the game was perfect. I'm not saying it
was the greatest game in the world. What I'm saying is,
as a guy that picked the Lakers to win in five,
and you know how it is, you want your picks
to win, you want your picks to be right. So
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I wanted the Lakers to win, but I wanted a
little drama, a little intrigue, a little suspense, as I
always say, a little spice. And we got that. It
was a good competitive game. You didn't know who was
going to win. Miami left it all on the court.
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Props to them. They are outmanned, overmatched, and they keep coming.
They play hard, and obviously the Lakers outlasted them to
take a three one lead. I couldn't have asked for more.
I wanted the Lakers to win, but I didn't want
to route. I didn't want a game that was over,
you know, midway through the second quarter. And so I
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thought he worked out well. Lebron James, after a bad start,
just just to put it bluntly, five turnovers in the
first half, came on with a really strong second half
in which he scored twenty points. Eleven points in the
fourth quarter accounted for sixteen of their twenty seven points.
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I thought he was big. He hit big threes, he
drove to the hole and ends up with another twenty eight,
twelve and eight and rob. I think I may have
mentioned I don't know if I mentioned this on the show,
but yesterday on television in the morning Undisputed, I predicted
I said Lebron will go for twenty eight points, twelve rebounds,
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and nine or ten assists. I was one assist off.
I think you throw that number out every time he plays. Don't. No,
I don't. I don't. I rarely throw out number. I
was still waiting, do I make him count? I was
waiting for Channing Small Friday to talk about the sixty
that he was gonna drop yesterday. Can we get him
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on line one? I'd like to get him on and
I don't know if he's coming to it. I mean,
you beat him up so bad, yeah, coming back on
this show. I'm gonna try to get him back or
I do think he's hesitant. You know what he just
texts me. He said, no way, no how but you
you not surprisingly you you got beef with Lebron. Ohho hum,
(05:37):
it's it's Wednesday. Of course you got beef with Lebron.
You think that he's what trying to oversell this great accomplishment.
I mean, what, what, what's the deal? Yeah? I just
when when Lebron goes into I just think that everything's calculated.
This is just me. It's my opinion, Chris, not based
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on I don't talk to Lebron. I don't know him.
I haven't really talked to him one on one since
he was in high squash. No, I'm just saying, like,
you know, I'm being up front, like I haven't talked
to I talked to him one on one when he
was a high school senior. Okay that I'm just being honest,
like like face twenty years you know what I'm saying,
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Like like seriously, seventeen eighteen years something. Yeah, that's what
That's when I last I talked to him in that setting.
But I'm saying, uh, the idea that this was some
great game of his career and oh my god, you
know he called it, well, he called it a must win.
Do we have that quote? I don't know if we do,
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but he called it a must win he sent a text.
Big story that he sent a text to his teammates
before the game saying must win two words, must win,
and that was inspirational to them. But here's the quote.
I think that uh got under your skin. I'm just
morning after our team meeting. I just I just felt that,
I felt that vibe, I felt that I felt that pressure.
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I felt like for me personally, this was one of
the biggest games of my career. I just wanted to
relay that message to my teammates. We type of zone
I was in, the type of moment it was well.
Obviously when he came out for the first half, it
wasn't because he was thinking in the first half. But
I'll say this, for him to say that that was
the biggest game of his question, one of the biggest,
that's what he say. Even to say one of the
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biggest is Boulder Dash and poppy Cock. Okay, first of all,
they had the lead in the Series two one. Miami
had gotten bamned back Chris, but they were down still
forty percent of their starting This isn't the team, no,
none at all. I'm I'm saying, yeah, but they got
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him back, but you didn't know what he was going
to give you, is what I'm saying. Okay, so it's
hard for me. If you told me that this was
the fully loaded Miami head that knocked off Boston, that
knocked off Milwaukee, Chris whatever, maybe I would buy into it.
Maybe if they were down two to one and this
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was a huge game, then I could buy into that.
But here's a guy who came back from three to
one against the Warriors, and I don't care what shape
the Warriors were in, Chris, and who wasn't playing three
to one right there? I would say all three of
those games were huge. Down three to two against Boston
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in Boston, another huge game for me, and won his
first championship. That was right year he won his first championship. Yeah,
so I'm just saying those games to me ring out
as bigger and there's a whole cell job that has
to go in on this championship, you know what, Chris.
You know me, I'm a man of the people. I'm
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out in LA all the time and I'm running into
Laker fans and even people who are really Laker fans,
and Rob G you're one of those eyes they're even
getting like trying to build it up to feel as
good as it should feel, you know, like there's like
a cell like we gotta sell it like this is unbelievable. No, no,
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I hate it's not. And it doesn't mean that it's
not a championship or you don't count it. That's not
what I'm saying, Chris. But it's like a cell job.
And when I hear that, that's what I'm getting from Lebron,
rather than people saying they're gonna wind up beating a
broken down a Miami team that got hurt, you know,
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hurt lost two players in Game one and never had
a shot after that, and so there's this whole build
up of trying to make it more dramatic than it
really is. That that's all, And that's what I got
from that quote. I disagree, and I think some of it,
Like you said, you haven't talked to Lebron since he
started shaving, so I get it. That's where I think
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you're off. I think Lebron has learned over the years
to stay in the moment, stay in the moment, don't
think about the ramifications, the repercussions, what people are saying.
Stay in the moment and being in the moment meant,
this is one of the biggest games of my career
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and one of leaves it open. Rob. I'm with you.
If he had said it's the biggest game of my career,
obviously he's had what I think everyone jeopardy even if
they lost. Hold on you, you were asking me and
everyone we had on as a guest. They talked to NBA,
what if the Heat win. If they win and if
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they got all their team back, it would be it
would be something to worry about. That's what I say.
But but if they won, let's say they had won
last night and it's two two and goring Drogers, Let's
just say he can't come back. Heck, they will have
won the last two games without Drogice, and so I
mean they will have been to me as dangerous as
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good as he is. I think they would have been
dangerous if they had won the last two games without
of me. What I'd always say about about the NBA,
the great uh equal lodge or neutralizer, and the whole
thing Chris is is the four out of seven beating
Lebron and them four out of seven. Well, I always
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I always think that's that's the part. Can they beat him?
A couple games, sure they can well, but without a
full squad they can't do it. But they they I
have no problem with what Lebron said because again, one
of he could be talking about one of the top ten,
one of the ten most important games of his career,
and it's the most important game. Now. If he lost
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this seat like last night we had Dave Miller and
it was a swing game, lose it and not only
is it tied to two, but Miami has the momentum
and into the Lakers. Would that had made Game five
the biggest game of his career? Had they lost that too,
If he's staying in the moment, then I guess so.
And then game six that they lost that that would
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be the biggest game, right, But what's wrong with saying that?
At It's it's the here's the thing, and you you're
talking about build up this game, this championship. Why do
they have to build it up? This is huge? This
will make him the first player ever to lead three
separate franchises to NBA championships. That's huge, but could give
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him a title with the Lakers. You and I talked
about it before even came here. But if it comes here, Lebron.
You gotta know that every one of your statures save
Elgin Baylor, has delivered a championship to the Lakers. Jerry West,
Kareem Shock, Will, Kobe Magic, They they all delivered championship.
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You can't come here and just be an actor and
have your businesses and and make the Lakers relevant again.
You gotta deliver the ring. He's about to deliver the
ring in a year where tragically Kobe Bryant was killed.
I mean, this is big. There's no cell job that
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needs to be made. This is huge. I'm telling you
that people will celebrate it, but I don't think it
has the juice of a normal championship. I really don't.
I don't. I don't know if it's just Miami or
people don't believe in Miami having a shot. I'm not
saying it is Chris. I'm into the bar. The Clippers
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couldn't hold up there. And I'm just talking about the
Laker fans. And I talked to who are big Lebron
fans and big Laker fans? Are you saying they're selling it? That?
Does that mean that they're talking it up like they
think it's huge or what the Laker fans, you're no, no, no,
they're saying, I'm not that juiced up about it, like
I know they're gonna win, but they don't have it.
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It ain't like, oh my god, I can't he he
did it. I can't believe. That's because we know who
they're playing. They're not. They can't get beat by Miami.
They gotta beat themselves. That's what I'm saying about it,
but making it. You just said it, they can't be
beat by Miami, but say, yes, but it's a miracle.
But that would be like an upset. Yeah, it would
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be a huge upset. But but I'm talking about the masses.
Most people didn't think Miami had a shot. That's why
you picked them in five games. Some people picked them
in the Lakers in the sweep. That's all I'm saying
is that that's the lebron cell job to make it,
to make it tougher, like like, oh my god, I
can't believe we beat Miami. Really but but he virgo,
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he's not saying that. Secondly, I think that's the right mentality,
Rob if you were going up against you mentality and
trying to sell something where who's saying he's selling something.
He's letting you in on his mindset. Look, I can't
go in there. You can't go into a game thinking, man,
these dudes are chumps. We got to play our C
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plus game and beat them. You gotta go in like
respecting these dudes, taking them seriously. If we lose this
game all of a sudden, who knows what could happen.
We've given them life, they're getting healthy. No, we gotta
go out here and put the nail in the coffin.
I just think that's the right mentality to have. I
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don't think he's selling it all right, eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine sixty three
sixty nine. You're turning the way in. Does it sound
to you like Lebron is still trying to juice up
the narrative surrounding this Bubble championship or is he just
letting you in on the mind of a king. We'll
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That's right, Get in the zone. Auto Zone, all right, Rob,
let's get into this. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox was Lebron Is he trying to talk this finals up?
As Rob says, to make it seem really big. I
think he's just in the moment and he's sharing his
mentality with you. I got no problem with it. Where
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are you at on this? All right? Let's kick it
off with Dre and Michigan. You're on the odd Couple
of Fox Sports Radio. Sub Drake and what's going on? Fellas?
What up? Man? You gotta hey? Rob, you're a man
and Hunt Grand but I gotta roll with Chris on
this one, Bro, because even you yourself said it that
this season was very important to lebroncos how many more
opportunities he had left point. But not only just that,
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but you gotta think about what the COVID situation, all
the social and rest me let me rebuttle, let me
let me give you something. Yes, I get that, But
to say that that game with the two to one lead,
they weren't behind. When they played Golden State, they were
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down three to one with no wiggle room. This game
can't match up to that. And when they were down
in Boston three to two. That's all I'm saying is
that they weren't had an advantage. They were up again,
they weren't down. He didn't say it was the biggest game.
He didn't say it was bigger than those games. But
how about this. If they had lost Game five to
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the Warriors in twenty sixteen and gone out for one,
nobody would have been like, oh, they blew it. They
were expected to lose. The Warriors that won seventy three games,
this one never expected to win. Rob. Losing this series
would be a lot more damage. In this series. They're up,
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they weren't down. Chris. If it was down twa, you're
giving them no life. You're giving it even a pit
bulls light. You're not behind if you win. If you
were behind two to one, I would buy into it more.
That's all I'm saying. Tony and Los Angeles, you're in
the odd couple of Fox Sports raded. What's up, Tony?
What up? Rod? What's up? Chris? What's up? Man? Chris?
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He brought up the number three real quick. Look, they're
only three things as a kid. That that made me
feel good. That was warm soup church on Sunday in Disneyland.
Lebron look he gonna win the third tip with his
third team, but he did on the back of three
different players. KCP made the shot last night bat Kyrie
in Cleveland. Come on, MANCP has saved Lebron. Really, are
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you really fixing your mouth to say that that Lebron
James was carried by CACP. Really, you know who assisted
KCP on that big three? Lebron James. Lebron had eleven
points in the fourth quarter, hit all seven of his
free throw attempts. We know he's not a good free
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throw shooter or a great one, but he delivered stop it,
Tony trying to belittle what Lebron is done. Unbelievable. Tony
is in the house, Tony and Maryland, you're on the yard.
A couple of Fox Sports raded what's up Tony? Hey, guys,
thanks taking my call. Listen. I gotta agree with Rob
on this one. From this point of view, every championship
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in any sports this year comes with an asterix. Okay,
Rob doesn't say that. Rob's not saying that. I think
it does. I think every sport comes with an asteris
because it's not normal. There's nothing normal. But but I
believe and keep him to keep Tony on and asterix,
and I think Rob agrees with me. Correct me if
I'm wrong, Rob, and asterix is for when the champion
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or winner has an unfair advantage that no one else had,
or even an advantage even that no one else had.
What advantage has to have the Lakers had? They got
no more advantage than anybody else. I don't agree with
your assessment of why that asteris should be there. Why
shouldst be there? The astras should be there because there
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is nothing normal about what's going on right now and
our and our everybody's going through it. It doesn't. It doesn't.
He does, the Clippers, the Lakers the right, It didn't matter.
I'm sorry, that's my point of your wrong. You can
put an asteris by so much. Let's put an asterix
by last year's ring that Toronto won because Kevin Durant
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was hurt. That wasn't normal. And the Lake Thompson got hurt.
So two of the three best players on the team
got hurt. That should be an asterisk. It's just not normal.
Come on, man, please, Justice in Virginia. You're on the
odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Justice? I
have to say, Chris, I agree with you. Rob. I'm sorry, brother,
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but you're wrong. I believe that Lebron doesn't have to
sell this one. This Justice or Joseph, this is Justice. Okay,
go ahead, you sound like Joseph Virginia. Well, sorry, Well,
I believe that it's already sold itself. I believe that
they worked hard for this championship, and the Lakers they
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deserved it. Lebron he's gonna get his third championship, and
most importantly, I think for the organization, this is fourth
champions third with a different with three teams. Yeah, and
it'll be and it'll be the seventeenth title for the Lakers. Yeah.
I think where Lebron will make it, Yes, and I
think where he will make yourself as the one of
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the best Lakers is winning that eighteenth one next season.
You guys have a great one. Thank you. What about
Dwight and Charlotte real quick, because squeeze Dwight in if
you're quick, Dwight, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. What's up? Hey, good heaven. Michella's appreciate you
taking my card. I'll listened to you every night. I
tell you, man, these Lebron haters unbelievable. And Rob Parker man,
(22:24):
you make my ears plea how you hate on Lebron
so much? So let me tell you. Let me say
this real quick, fellers, I'm gonna let y'all go okay. Now,
if Kawhi Leonard was still uh, if the Clippers were
still in the playoffs and Kawhile was still playing, you
would be doing card where talking about him winning his
third championship with a third team. Come on, bro Lebron,
When and when Lebron trying to do it? Oh no, no,
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you got me wrong, because you never heard you. No,
you didn't because you didn't hear me say that that
that the championship doesn't count or anything. You did not
hear me say that you never be praised. I don't
think you be saying I wouldn't say that. What would
what would make kawise thing different is that he would
have won back to back championship with two franchises who
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had never won. And that's the part, Chris, that would
have been so unbelievable and would have year we could
talk about. It still would have been unbelievable. It still
would have been would have been unbelievable. It would but
it would have been big, but it wouldn't have been unbelievable.
All right. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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Search f SR to listen live. Rob. I think this
is a huge championship for the Laker. I mean, I
get it. They should beat Miami. I get it. They
you know them and the Clippers that was supposed to
be the big matchup would have been a tougher series,
I think than Denver. But you know, we didn't get
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to see that. But their seventeen title, as Finlay said,
matching Boston, now, I've all I've long felt like they
were the best and winning this essentially the winning this
franchise in NBA history, even though Boston had that, you know,
they advantage in banners because of the Bill Russell years.
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But obviously since Bill Russell left, you know, Boston hadn't
come anywhere near the success that the Lakers have had.
So I've always thoughts of the Lakers as the best franchise,
but now they can time it's really in your lifetime
or what you remember, but not not banners wise, I
know what you're saying, right, But even even if you
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go for consistency like the Lakers, obviously in the seventies,
in the seventies they were really good. They only won
one championship the last one was seventy nine eighty Magic's
first year, but really one championship. But they obviously had Will,
Jerry West, Elgin, Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Kareem and then Magic
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goes there. They're great in the eighties, you know, they're
they're good. You know they they're They're not champions in
the nineties for the most Partum but they're still relevant.
They end up getting shocked, and then the two thousands
they're great. Two thousand and tens, you know, they were
down a little, but they they've just been more consistent.
I mean, Boston, you had the bird years, they got three,
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and then you had you know, the Big Three with Gardinette,
Pearson Allen and that was it, you know recently and
the last what's that forty years, So you're right, it's
my lifetime. But uh, I just think over consistency over
the decades, they've been there pretty much, you know, every decade.
I just think it's what you you know, what we
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what we all witnessed, and you feel better about it
because you watched it. I get what you're saying. It's
more spread out. But at the same time, if you
had talked about this in the seventies, you would say,
but it's not years ago, right, or the fifth or
the eight you know, you would have said, will this Celtics,
And you know they were looked at that point. It
wasn't because yeah, yeah, Celtics won championships two in the seventies,
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um and then of course the eighties, so yeah, at
that point they were by far the better franchise. But
now I think it's the Lakers and they'll have the
banner to say it. And then the year, you know,
if Kobe's tragic death, like I said, Lebron delivering on
that championship that you and I both said, you you
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gotta deliver. You got to deliver now you you and
you said to Rob when he came here. You had it.
It was a good joke. It was one of your
better ones. I'll give it to you. I mean I
heard it eighty four times. That took away a little
bit of its punch, but it was good the first
seventeen times I heard it. Lebrin came here to be
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Meryl Streep remember that one, yes, because because his first
year he was into everything except basketball. He looked like
he didn't have focus when he first came in. You
know it, I know it, Yes, you do, don't It
was about he was doing a million day, he was
(27:09):
doing a million things. Barbara shot and space jam and
he was doing all these businesses. No, it just seemed
like what wait a minute, what what? And And that
was the first time too. Uh. You know, it just
seemed like I remember him saying he was playoff activated
or whatever they call it. And then that fell apart.
(27:30):
That didn't work, and guys didn't like him because he
basically called out his teammates that he didn't want them.
I don't know, it was just last year was didn't
seem like the focus Lebron, who normally make sure he
has his dak stack with with stack with players and
his is the stack decking? Is that how you right now? Yes,
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against my heavy stack. But you and I both agree
that the Clippers had more talent. Yeah, but I'm talking
about him. An Anthony Day was, well, you got another
great player. You have that. I'm not holding that against
him because guess what if he Johnson as great as
he was, everybody without another, nobody's holding it against him.
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But it's this is more like Lebron, That's all I'm saying.
And before it wasn't last year when he got hurt.
They were the second seed in the West. They beat
Golden State on Christmas Day. If Chris, if I'm not
what stop what you talking about? What argument is that?
Are that argument? That's that's garbage because they had a
(28:39):
chance last year to make the playoffs. They had a chance,
and you know what, they know they're not doing space jam. Now,
no they didn't. They didn't, not this moment, but they
didn't like they had they had a chance and and
to make the playoffs and he failed during that time. Okay,
that don't mean you said he came here to be
and he came. Yes, he came here and just seemed
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like they were doing that. Give you that was wrong. No,
I'm not because at the time I didn't say that
this year. I said that at the time when he
came LA. Yes, he met the time, and I based it,
and I based it off of what he was doing
at the time. You didn't say he came to La
Meryl Streep in twenty nineteen. You say that came the
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La to be Meryl Streep. Period. I could. I didn't
say he's done with period. You said he's out of
the champions. Yes, when he came here with no team
and those young guys, he wasn't trying to win it.
He realized it. He realized he couldn't win. He was
at first or though he came, Yeah, with those young guys,
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he was gonna win. Lebron was gonna mold him and
all that, and then he realized I got you know,
he shot he was gonna win the championship. He thought
that he could come here with that with those young players.
Oh we can't trade Kyle Kuzma. Oh we can't trade
Lodo ball, Lazo ball. Jersey's gonna be in the rafters.
That was magic. No, but at that was that was
(30:07):
the thinking with the Lakers. Look at this young poor
and add Water and stir and they we're gonna win
a championship. But they weren't winning no championship. And just
admit I was wrong. He didn't go Chris. He came
here to be Meryl Streep when he first showed up.
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Stop it. If he can be Meryl Streep and win
a championship, that's huge, that's huge, admit it. My goodness,
hate this, Gonna hate, hate this, Gonna hate all right,
One NFL head coach is lying right through his teeth.
(30:50):
We'll get into that next. It's The Old Couple of
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All right, it's the Eye Couple coming to you live
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Let's move to
the NFL rob and people are not wasting time with moves.
They are not wasting time at all. Of course, what
a week in little Morten. I don't know what two
weeks ago, almost the Chicago Bears bench Mitch Trubisky after
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a two oh start, and then they lost their third game.
They bench him and go to Nicky Foles, and look,
you and I could have told Matt nag don't do it.
If you're gonna go to Nick Foles, wait till there's
about five regular season games left. Nothing whatsoever is expected.
(32:00):
Anything he gives you his house money. He's playing with
house money. Anything he gives you is gravy. That's when
you get the best Nick Foles. But when you put
him into early name him the starter, where you got
a chance to make the playoffs, and people are expecting
him to do great things though he's not built for that.
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And now they I wouldn't be surprised if they go
back to Drubisky, you think so, I mean foals? Come on? You?
Am I wrong on false? No? I've always what if
I said a million times, he's cool if you're setting
them out to go get some bread and milk from
the store. But when you toss them the keys and
say it's your car's gonna wind up getting crashed at
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some point. It's just it's true. It's who he is.
He doesn't. There are athletes and you've covered them, Rob,
I've covered them that are talented but don't want the
pressure of consistent expectations. Right. They're guys that you know
they can go out there and get your twenty. They
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got the talent to go out and get you twenty
points a night, but they don't want to be counted on,
you know, to give you twenty points a night. I
don't want to deal with that. I'd rather come in
nobody thinks, you know, I'm gonna do anything, and I
give you twenty seven. Wow, right, with no pressure, no expectations,
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and everything is like, wow, he scored twenty seven. I
was going right, right, that's Nick Foles. I don't know
what Matt Nate I mean again, Trubisky, I'm not saying
these you know, Hall of Fame potential, but I mean,
come on, you were two and one and so it'll
be interesting to see what they do. But we're seeing
the same thing similar in Washington with the football team.
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They're benching. They announced today Dwayne Haskins and he's not
even going to second string. He's the third string holding
the clipboard. Right, that's why they dropped him, you know
what I mean. Right, that's not even like you can
maybe get back in there when you get the clipboard.
You're not getting in Chris, No, really, no, you're you're right.
And and I look, I think they're starting Kyle Allen,
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who's nothing to write home about. Um, I'm just familiar
with him because he played with the Panthers, right, you
know that. And look, Rivera said, and Rivera is roundly
recognized as one of the great guys in the NFL,
honest and all that. So he's probably telling the truth.
He says, Look, our division, he didn't say it this way,
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but our division is horrible. We got a shot, we
got a great defense, which Chase coming back. I mean,
he's off to a ridiculous start, That's what I mean.
It's unbelievable. They got a nice defensive front. He's thinking,
look at Dallas, they're a joke. Look at Philly they're
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a joke. And the Giants we're We're better than the Giants.
With askins, we could actually win this division to make
the playoffs. And I get it because it is a
win now league, not really about five year plans. If
it's about a win now league, then Alex Smith should
be the quarterback's healthy. Yeah, no, I agree, but I'm serious.
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I I just I'm just saying that he's serious about
trying to win, like right now, we're gonna throw it
like like this is twenty. He's not fully there Weathers
he must you know what I mean. But you know
what I'm saying, Yes, and he's had success in the
league and he was playing well and Watchington before he
got hurt. This guy's been hurt. Uh. I'm just saying,
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I don't know, so so I mean, I agree with you,
You're right, he probably is there still a mental black
you know. I don't know, but that's that's undeniable that
he would be better than Alan if he's right now. Mate,
So for whatever they know better than we do, he
might not be right, But um, I think Rob and
they didn't couch it. You know, he didn't say it
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this way. He just said he's not ready. Haskins isn't ready.
It seems to me like Rivere's made his decision on him.
And because I get we can make the playoffs now,
but what are you gonna do with Haskins? I mean,
I think you need to find out is this is
this our guy? Because because getting a friend, I think
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I think they know. I think I really do. I
don't think you're that far off in that, you know, like,
if anything, Chris, if you had a little wiggle room,
it's now because the division isn't that right. So actually
it's the exact opposite to me, is that the division
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isn't tough. And maybe he can, you know what I mean,
win a game or two, but they don't if they
kid gets hot, yeah right, but they don't feel like that.
They obviously don't feel like that, and they're looking at
it going we just can't win with him, right, Yeah,
that's what they feel like. I don't know if he'll
I don't know if he'll ever be the quarterback again
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and again because they dropped him. The third told me
all I needed to know, I just think that. Look, obviously,
quarterbacks are playing a lot sooner than ever before, and
you're expecting more than ever before. Right, the decisions are
made used to be, you know, if a guy's not
really good till this third year, that's about what we expect, right,
But now everybody's not gonna come right in though this
(37:32):
guy only started fourteen games in college. So I just
wonder if you need to make this decision this quickly,
keep it locked. Two hours left
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