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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our number two of our radio program.

And we take a look again at the NBA finals, the basketball stat geeks, the historians.

It's stat porn.

Janis Adentacombo undergoing a metamorphosis for the ages in the NBA finals, and he is being compared to the greats.

He is in the book, the good book, but how far up is he?

We take a look at the performance that wins the MVP award for Janice Adentacombo.

Also, we mix in a few phone calls, including a very bizarre conversation with a random caller

named Joseph from Oakland that really stood out.

That and more, it's coming your way right now here in our number two.

Bucking the odds.

Welcome in the beginning.

Here we are again, the another hour of the Ben Mather show in the air everywhere

as we twiddle our thumbs, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the greasy spoon, frying up, piping hot sports takes all night long.

The doors never closed.

The lights don't go out here Here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

And our lead this hour, yet again, back to back and belly to belly from the NBA.

But those of you just joining us this hour, it was game six of the finals.

The Bucks leading three, two, looking to put the final nail in the coffin of the

sons and add more misery in the land of cacti and a lot of sand and win the title.

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