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Watch out for that sunshine.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition.

And a new week of the Ben Mallor show,

we are in the air everywhere as we get a worded edgewise,

coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar all night long here on the red eye.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios, good to have you hanging out with us.

There's a lot of playoff basketball.

I don't know if you're into any of this.

It is our lead this hour, a pro bouncy ball.

We have plenty of time.

Four hours of a blank canvas to paint a mosaic here of what we saw over the weekend.

But the big story is the defending Mickey Mouse champions who took it, well, in the shorts there, in the Valley of the Sun.

And that is our lead.

If you didn't watch it, maybe you missed it.

Devin Booker, book it.

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