Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

I want to start with the NBA whip. You know we do this during the NFL season every single Monday we start with an NFL whip around.

We are into the NBA post season where everything is supposed to change so we'll have an NBA whip for you.

Except that nothing has changed.

Man, you thought the regular season sucked.

How about that first weekend of the NBA post-season?

Like we waited all year for this?

Look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that was the greatest opening weekend of

NBA playoff basketball ever.

In fact, you know what I will tell you? I'm not going to tell you that. But what I will tell you is that that was essentially, how do I put this? I want to be very diplomatic when I say this. I want to be very diplomatic and I want to be very diplomatic when I say this.

I want to be very diplomatic and I want to be very respectful.

But if I had to say it, that first weekend was straight ass.

And I will ask no one in particular, no names mentioned, Commissioner Ears.

We had to sit through the entire boring ass regular season to get more of exactly the same

on the big stage under the bright lights.

Seriously, other than last night's... Under the bright lights, seriously?

Other than last night's Thunder Pells Tilled.

Could the rest of these games

been any less interesting or any less competitive. When the product should be at its absolute best,

it was actually at one of its worst. As for the first weekend, I mean we had one good game and no the pelts did not pull off the

upset over the top seed thunder without the ZMP but they damn near did pull it off and probably do win that game if they had the big pork.

But of these there was an actual reason to watch that game until the very end.

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