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Well, all good things come to an end, and the suns have set the Clippers season over.

We'll talk about that.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we prove.

Stupid is, as stupid does.

Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the land.

We're not at Disneyland, no, it's Radio Land, an imaginary place where listeners dwell and hang on every word, the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

So our lead this hour coming from the NBA,

the Sons and Clippers in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals,

Phoenix leading 3 to 2 with another chance to advance.

What's taking them so long to the NBA finals,

they scrappy L.A. team trying to stave off elimination at Staples Center.

Now, if you didn't watch, you didn't miss much.

We watched so you would not have to.

It was an act of kindness here to the overnight radio listener that you are. Now, unfortunately, for yours truly, Chris Paul woke up from hibernation for a rare good game, his first good game in the

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