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Well, that was unexpected.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we open Pandora's box, 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 on the red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all is well with you.

Our lead to begin the hour and to begin the week comes from the NBA,

the Eastern Conference Finals.

In a hotlanda game that ended a few hours back, a pivotal game three.

The Hawks stealing game one, not showing up the game two.

The Bucks kicking some major tookus in game two, a no showshow by the guys from Georgia.

And so they were like, hey, let's go back and let's play a home game now.

The Hawks playing the home uniforms out there.

I don't know if you watch this or not, perhaps not, as we like to say,

we watched so you didn't have to.

It's a public service that we provide here on the overnight to the consumer of overnight sports talk radio.

So Chris Middleton, the much maligned Chris Middleton, who had been horrifically bad, the first two games.

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