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I didn't realize June was the season of giving, but the NBA, very generous, very generous in the NBA playoffs.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we bridge the gap, 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, the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

So Paul is somewhat well in your life.

You like to say that if you're listening to an overnight radio show, things cannot be going

that bad.

That's usually true.

It's usually true.

So I lead this hour comes from the Western Conference Finals, game number two.

Game number two, as our caller from Chicago likes to say, the Sons and the Clippers.

Now, Phoenix tried to take a 2-0 lead in this series.

Many people thinking the Sons were going to blow out the Clippers.

In fact, I heard that.

Skip Bayless was like Clippers can get blown out early in the game.

But it was a closely contested contest.

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