Michael Rapaport is dying to know which of Candace Parker’s opponents overseas do not wear deodorant.
With Rapaport’s 8-year-old mutt, Weezy, lying at Parker’s feet during a recent taping of the “I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast,” Parker, the Los Angeles Sparks’ star forward, detailed one EuroLeague rivalry in which armed guards keep order, spit shields protect the benches and fans light coins on fire and toss them at the court.
Rapaport, a career actor, basketball junkie and, now, fidgeting interviewer, rephrases his question: Who smells the worst? It’s the kind of “snapping” — a raw form of comedic trash talk that he grew up with in predominantly black neighborhoods in New York — that he has known, used and laced with curse words to become a breakout radio and podcast guest in recent years for the likes of Howard Stern and Bill Simmons.
Not a week goes by when Rapaport’s takes aren’t in your face. To him, he’s keeping it real and honest; to others,…
