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It was a garden partay.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we do the verbal tango coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the greasy spoon as we fry up, piping hot sports takes all night long here, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

But our lead this hour comes from Pro Bouncy Ball, the New York Knickerbockers playing host of the Atlanta Hawks on a Wednesday night in Midtown Manhattan.

And since the Wizards, 76ers game and the Jazz Grizzlies game, both were not competitive in the late stages of that game.

Of course, the Wizards, which didn't show up at all.

This is the top story in the NBA.

Atlanta leading by as many as 15 points.

I don't know if you saw the game or not,

but the first half it looked like, here we go.

The Hawks are going to have a 2-0 lead.

They're going both games on the road.

They're up 13 at halftime.

And then nothing has changed more than halftime adjustments in my life.

A trap door opened up and swallowed up

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