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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two.

Our number two of our radio program, the Phoenix Sun, surprisingly take game one of the Western Conference finals.

Better stories in the losing locker room, so is the glass half full or is it half empty for the Clippers?

We'll answer that, and I'll explain why it is half full and why things are looking up for the Clippers,

despite losing Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

That and more, it's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number two.

Round one to the suns.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Malar show.

We are in the air everywhere as we ride the struggle bus coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond,

on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.

From under the moonlight, camouflaged by the darkness, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Here we are together again this hour, and our lead comes from the NBA.

Two playoff games we've already documented in the previous hour, the demise of the Philadelphia 76ers,

and Doc Rivers and Ben Simmons in particular. If you want to hear that, the podcast will be up shortly after we get done with this show.

You can hear us wax poetic about the Philadelphia Atlanta series,

but we shift gears now to game one between the Clippers and the Sons,

the Western Conference Finals, the NBA's final four.

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