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Hello and welcome.

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

And this hour, the ratings are out for the NBA finals opener, the lidlifter. And it turns out that the television audience that the NBA thought was going to return to pre-COVID levels didn't show up.

Chris Paul and the Greek freak not bringing customers to the NBA finals.

We crunched the numbers in our number one.

At the bottom rung of the ladder, welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Malar show.

We are in the air everywhere as we use the kitchen sink approach, coast to coast, border to order, and beyond.

On the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from your eardrums providing marginal sports talk radio all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all is well with you and our anticipation leading in to the NBA finals was that there wasn't much interest.

There wasn't much excitement.

There wasn't much in the way of anticipation going into it.

There was obviously no game played on a Wednesday night.

But our lead does come from the television ratings department.

The first report card for the 2021 finals without a big headliner, without a glamour team.

How would these sons and the bucks matchup resonate with television viewers?

And we have our first indication.

Our first indication is out.

And I don't know if you saw this or not, maybe not.

It's worth some conversation here between myself and yourself.

So the NBA finals drew flies compared to the good old days of the sport on the boob tube.

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