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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of our radio program and the Phoenix Suns playing host of the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA finals in the lead-in to game one, Devin Booker said, I'm not apologizing for the easy road, doesn't have to justify the road that Phoenix has gone down. We parse the words of the Sun's High Flyer.

That and much more.

It's coming your way right now in our number one.

No apologies.

No apologies. no apologies.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we set a low bar, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from under the moonlight camouflaged by the darkness hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Good to have you alongside.

The holidays are now in the rearview mirror.

Our lead this hour, at least the early July holiday,

our lead this hour coming from the NBA,

the silent night, another silent night in pro bouncy ball.

The NBA finals are going to begin before you know it in the Valley of the Sun.

Now Monday was a day to hype up the matchup, to try to drum up interest,

get people excited, not necessarily you, not necessarily me,

because we're sports people, but the people that aren't typically going to watch the NBA finals, an opportunity to get some excitement goal.

And to hype it up, hype it up a little bit.

And so there were some things that were said.

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