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The power of positioning.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we use sports talkies, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar on the red eye all night long here hanging out at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Good to have you alongside.

So our lead this hour coming from Pro Bouncy Ball, the Fugazi playing games are going to get started on Tuesday night in the Eastern

Conference.

We have been bombarded.

At least I have been bombarded.

My inbox has been filling up with many questions, not about what's going to happen

in the playing games, but instead, I can't believe what the

Clippers did.

Oh, you should have to be so embarrassed.

Oh, my God.

All of this, the fallout from a strategy the Clippers employed late in the season.

Now, if you don't know where I'm talking about and you're completely in the dark on

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