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Hello and welcome.

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

And we take a peek behind the curtain at the Eastern Conference Finals.

How does one explain the Atlanta Hawks now being truant, not showing up to game five of the Eastern Conference Finals?

The first nine minutes of the game, they were down by 20 points.

And the other game, Milwaukee, in the previous game, they didn't show up.

It's bizarre a world in the Eastern Conference.

I'll explain what I am seeing and what I expect to happen.

That and a whole lot more.

It's coming your way here in our number one.

It turns out the Hawks decided to stay in the nest.

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

We are in the air everywhere.

We are chomping at the bit, to coast border to border and beyond on the

vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we saw on the

red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports

Radio Studios and we are back at it again in our lead this hour coming from the NBA

as we await the other half of the bracket. It was game five, game five of the Eastern

Conference finals. And not a lot of Bill. I'm not going to lie to you and say, boy, this was a massively five of the Eastern Conference Finals.

And not a lot of build.

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