Everyone Roasted Train’s Lead Singer For His Rendition Of The National Anthem Before Game 1

Hey, the NBA Finals are about to tip off! Ain’t that swell? Both of the teams are ready to go, and after a lengthy layoff, it’s almost time for tip. All we need to do now is get through the National Anthem and lineup introductions and it’ll be time for the game!

First, let’s get to the anthem, sung by Patrick Monahan, the lead singer for San Francisco-based band Train. You may know him from such songs as “Drops of Jupiter” and “Hey Soul Sister” and some other tunes you’ve heard at a Macy’s. Let’s get some reviews of Monahan’s performance … oh, oh no.

https://twitter.com/noamschiller/status/870446243582967808

Yeah, people weren’t exactly high on Monahan’s rendition of the anthem. It wasn’t that it was bad as much as it sounded like he was trying to power through a bad case of laryngitis. Still, there were some bright sides, like the bevy of Train jokes Twitter busted out.

https://twitter.com/celebrityhottub/status/870446234204504064

We even got a good “Neither Chris Paul nor Carmelo Anthony has ever made a Finals” joke out of this whole thing.

The best tweet, though, was the conspiracy theory that one person threw together. Despite the fact that Monahan is a Dubs fan, it connects the dots to show that this obviously means Cleveland is going to win another championship.

We also got one heck of an idea on who should do the anthem for Game 2.

But of course, one Twitter user decided to say what everyone was thinking.

Let he who has never sang “Drops of Jupiter” a little too loud in a bar at 1:30 in the morning cast the first stone.