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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program and the NBA draft,

the 75th edition of the NBA draft is our lead.

It was held on Thursday night in Brooklyn.

The draft was upstaged by a trade, the Lakers, acquiring a former MVP from the Washington Wizards,

a little sorcery, pulling off a massive trade, sending half of their roster to Washington to get Russell Westbrook.

But does Westbrook make the purple and gold a better team?

Break it down.

Toss it up.

Put a little spice on it and serve it piping hot right now in our number one.

A case of hoop heaven, depending on which side you're on. Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor 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 eardrumbs, providing you marginal sports talk radio all night long from the Fox 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.

We'll have a lot of conversation on that.

We'll mix it up as we often do.

I have attention deficit disorder.

I like to change things up throughout the course of the overnight.

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