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

Now, I had the best of intentions when I was looking ahead to the night.

I said, well, it's likely we'll talk about the rockets.

It's likely the rockets will be the story.

But as the night...

See, the great thing about this is you have to have flexibility.

You have to have flexibility. You have to have flexibility.

And I had the flexibility to see the better story, the better talker is what happened in Oklahoma City.

Not that I find in Oklahoma City Utah matchup generally compelling, but that was absolutely the case on this particular night.

All the bravado, all the showmanship of Russell Westbrook,

and he is on the cusp of getting knocked out of the NBA playoffs in the first round.

And it wasn't even close.

It was close for 12 minutes.

Unfortunately, you've got to play 48 minutes in your standard NBA game.

And the Oklahoma City Thunder did not do that at all.

And the Utah Jazz with Joe Ingalls, let me tell you, if you took, and they had to do this, they had to take Joe Ingalls

and take him to any playground basketball game anywhere in the United States.

Joe Ingalls would be, if you don't see him shoot the basketball, would be the last guy

picked in any pickup game

anywhere.

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