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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

And the last game of the day in the NBA playoffs, the Western Conference, first round matchup between the team that needed a playing game to get in, the Minnesota Timberwolves,

the college basketball playing game coming to the NBA as they got by the Nuggets and the

Houston Rocketsets who were high

falutin on top of their game and I'm told by so many people invincible at Houston Rockets.

They certainly looked human in game one of the NBA playoffs.

Now James Hardin, who is, I think we can all agree, a wild card for the Rockets, right?

Because you don't know what you're going to get.

He has proven to be a fraud at times in the playoffs.

Hardin's done a Houdini act and vanished, and you can't rely on James Hardin.

So one thing we've learned from the Rockets over the years, you can't rely on James Hardin. Now the Rockets have an old man at Point Guard and Chris Paul, who, by the way, played

like a geyser.

Did he not?

I mean, man, was I right about that or what?

You got to hope he gets hurt at this point.

The way that Paul was playing, he sucks.

Terrible.

He's going to bring down the Rockets by himself.

But James Hardin played very well in this particular game.

We'll get to Chris Paul in a moment.

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