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

I want to show my thoughts on the NBA finals like the excruciating weight is finally over. Not so much for the heat because they've been playing.

It feels like the nuggets have not played in a month. But the NBA finals are finally here.

It may not be the matchup that anybody expected.

Or maybe anybody actually wanted outside of Colorado and South Florida,

but you ask me, it's a damn good matchup. A damn good

match up between two damn good teams. Just don't tell Vegas that. Or anybody

betting this series or any of the lava spures on social.

Because if you ask any of these people, the series is already over.

Depending on where you look this morning, Denver is going off at

minus 400, minus 425, even minus 460 to rip the laryo, which to me is pretty wild it's kind of insane it makes Denver one of the

biggest NBA finals favorites ever and they're a whopping nine-point favorite for game one at home tonight.

And nobody is giving Miami any chance, anywhere.

Nobody, nobody is giving Miami a chance.

So where have I heard that before?

Where have I heard all of this before?

Listen, I understand it. I get it.

I've been saying it, and I've been saying this Denver Nuggets team is incredible. I've been saying and not yesterday either but for several weeks that this is the best nuggets team ever,

with the best player in the world,

playing his best basketball in the world right now.

They're big, they can shoot it, they can run,

they can defend, they have depth, they have have it all they've got a great head coach

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