Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show.

Long us open today. Lots of thoughts. They don't want to share with you. So first, some congrats.

Congrats are in order today. Congrats to the L.A. Lakers. LA Lakers. You did it.

You did it.

You finally covered this spread against the Thunder

for the first time all season.

If you were crazy enough to bet on the Lakers

after the Thunder beat their asses and covered that spread seven times in a row this season.

Good on you. Good on you. Of course, I did not because I was pretty positive that that series was going to be over last night.

And at least I was right about that much. But I just kept smashing the

Lakers, taking the points, smashing the Lakers, taking the points. So I'm like, what, and losing

every single time. So no, I'm not going to go out that way. Yes, I am. But I will say, credit to the

Lakers. They put out their very best effort. and they played pretty much their best game of the series,

and they still got swept out on their home floor.

At least they made SGA actually show up and seal the deal,

which he did, of course, with the help of that absolute stud goucho, A.J. Mitchell.

Man, that goucho is nice.

Nice, nice.

Goucho.

That dude's nice.

More on that later on.

Except nobody is worried about the thunder right now.

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