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Well, it turns out the forecast does not call for sunshine,

at least not the Phoenix Suns to shine.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition to the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we take a flight of fantasy, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside your eardrums providing marginal sports talk radio all night long as we hang out together

at the Fox Sports Radio Studios, the compound, as we like to call it.

Well, we begin this hour with the NBA Western Conference Finals, game number five.

The Suns, as you know, by now looking to close out the Clippers in advance to the NBA finals.

All they had to do was beat up a team that was ripped apart.

The team from Los Angeles, the people's team, short-handed, without starting

center Zubots, a bad knee, he was knocked out.

The Clippers facing the ultimate uphill battle.

And did you watch?

Did you see what happened?

Perhaps not.

We watched, as we'd like to say, so you didn't have to.

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