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Hello and welcome.

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

And we start out with Pro bouncy ball, Western Conference Finals.

It was a coronation for the Phoenix Suns.

All they had to do was show up and collect a victory and go out of the NBA finals.

Nobody let Paul George know about that.

A masterpiece for the people's team.

Staying alive, staying alive. Is it time to start stressing out about things for the sons?

I am nodding my head. Yes, I will explain why right now. Here it is our number one. one 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

addition to the ben maller 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 eardrumss 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.

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