experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey with up first from npr though it doesn't have to be welcome to 15 easy minutes of breaking news clarity on international and national affairs and a casual tone that you can take in with breakfast begin your day informed ready and refreshed Begin your day with Up First.

Subscribe to Up First from NPR on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mallor Show podcast.

Be sure to catch us live every weeknight from 2 to 6 Eastern 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

And to find your local station for the Ben Mather Show at Fox Sports Radio.com, you can find it there.

Or stream us live every night on the IHeart Radio app by searching FSR.

This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

A case of hoop heaven, depending on which side you're on.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather Show. Here we are together again in the air everywhere as we ruffle a few feathers coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your

eardrums providing you marginal sports talk radio all night long from the Fox Sports

Sports Radio Studios and this is what we call a good 24-hour period for sports conversation.

But our lead this hour coming from Pro Bouncy Ball, it is one of the big stories.

That in the Major League Baseball trade deadline, also outstanding of a lot of conversation on

that will mix it up as we often do i have attention deficit disorder i like to change things

up throughout the course of the overnight so just hours ago at the barclays center in

brooklyn the NBA with limited pomp and circumstance.

Not a lot of buzz about this draft, but they did conduct the 2021 entry draft,

the 75th edition of the selection show made for television extravaganza.

Did you watch?

Probably not. Don't worry. We do have your back. We watched a little bit. Did you watch?

Probably not.

...