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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program.

And this hour, it's an NBA drama-o-roma.

A bunch of games on the card last night in the NBA, but only one of them came down to the final seconds.

We'll give you our takeaways from the very lucky Dallas Mavericks able to escape by the hair on their chinny, chin, and get past the Clippers in game five.

Will the Clippers punch back and force a game seven?

We'll take a look at that.

And more, it's coming your way right now in our number one.

Made for TV drama welcome in the beginning of the ben maller show we are in the air everywhere as we make heads or tails of the sporting news

of the day coast to, border to border and beyond

on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar

on the red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio studio.

So our lead this hour coming from Pro Bouncy Ball, we had another full night of

opening round NBA playoff activity, and the games were mostly for the dogs.

They were.

The 76ers without Joelle Embed blowing past the wizards using sorcery to make the wizards vanish from the playoffs.

So Washington is done.

The Atlanta Hawks went to Broadway and the New York Knicks not ready for Broadway as they were done in by Tray Young at the Mecca.

So Atlanta has advanced in the NBA playoffs.

Update your bracket.

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