# Oprah is disrupting the NBA Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 13, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824 "2011-05-13T20:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/1 "2011-05-13T20:54:08Z")
[Story Here](http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/oprahs-chicago-taping-forces-nba-reschedule-bulls-heat-27368). I guess United Center didn’t expect the Bulls to do this well. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/2 "2011-05-13T20:58:55Z")
Not sure if that’s better or worse than having a Finals game broadcast pre-empted for the white Bronco low-speed car chase. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/3 "2011-05-13T21:03:48Z")
Someone tell Charles Barkley and Dylan Stableford that Tuesday to Sunday is a _two_-day shift. Also, it doesn’t seem like the league’s stumble so much as Jerry Reinsdorf’s. He owns the Bulls _and_ the arena, right? Why did he contract his arena out on that date? Did he not expect the Bulls to do this well? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/4 "2011-05-13T22:43:42Z")
Oprah has more stroke than Vince McMahon. The WWE had to use a different venue in a similar situation with the Nuggets in the NBA playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/5 "2011-05-13T22:54:29Z")
I am not going to read the linked story because the mental image I got from **Oprah is disrupting the NBA Playoffs** isn’t something that I want to have wiped out by cold reality. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/6 "2011-05-13T23:00:05Z")
Did you picture Oprah in a Jordan jersey rushing the court to block a Lebron dunk too? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/7 "2011-05-14T14:17:50Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I am not going to read the linked story because the mental image I got from **Oprah is disrupting the NBA Playoffs** isn’t something that I want to have wiped out by cold reality. I was imagining Oprah in a Joker/Penguin style Blow-through-the-walls with an army of costumed henchmen in the middle of a game disruption. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/8 "2011-05-14T14:48:26Z")
I just picture her yelling the worst, most devastating trash talk ever heard from the sidelines, reducing players of both teams to crying, sobbing wrecks. I wish she’d cut it out. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/9 "2011-05-14T15:38:33Z")
I picture her getting her hypocritical bitch ass capped and thrown in a dumpster, but that would just upset all her fancows and we’d have to endure a bunch of boring tributes, which would be worse. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/10 "2011-05-14T16:15:01Z")
Baby, I’m sure whatever you do for your last show will be spectacular. Now can I just watch the game? Sure. Go right ahead. Oh. So now you’re mad. Um, no. You’re not mad? No. Why you got you arms and legs crossed and you won’t make eye contact? You know what?! It’s not all about you! (Stomps off to the kitchen) (A little later)Hey, hon, could you bring me a beer? Why don’t you get Derrick Rose to bring you a beer? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oprah-is-disrupting-the-nba-playoffs/581824/11 "2011-05-16T13:55:14Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I just picture her yelling the worst, most devastating trash talk ever heard from the sidelines, reducing players of both teams to crying, sobbing wrecks. Then, as she strolls across the carnage out her way out, dropping some kind of “This is how it’s done, Spike” diss. > [@wolfman](#): > > I was imagining Oprah in a Joker/Penguin style Blow-through-the-walls with an army of costumed henchmen in the middle of a game disruption. I guess dissing Spike could fit into this one, too. Add Nicholson to the list as well.