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Hello and welcome.

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

In this hour, we took a look at the NBA finals, but not necessarily the Bucks and the Sons.

Milwaukee did upset Phoenix over the weekend.

Now one win away from the title, but LeBron James has hijacked the NBA finals.

He made a courtside appearance, and he ended up hitting the daily double.

We'll explain why more people were fascinated about what LeBron did at the NBA finals than anything that happened on the court.

That and more.

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

Hostile takeover of the NBA finals.

Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben Mather Show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we eat the alphabet soup,

coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck soaring on the red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

So our lead this hour coming from basketball.

There was no NBA finals game that was played on Sunday.

It was on Saturday.

An odd quirk in the schedule over the weekend.

Now the Bucks rallying from 16 points down early to K.O.

The Suns, Janice Edentacumbo, throwing it down in the alley-oop late in that game, the signature moment.

If you saw the game on Saturday, you know what I'm talking about. 32 points, 9 rebound, 6 assists,

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