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It might be a couple days old now, but the fallout continuing to rock the NBA.

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Mallor show.

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And I'm missing something about the big story of the night in baseball.

We'll get to that coming up in a couple of minutes. By the way, I'm back.

I was sent away to an exotic location now.

You're fired.

I have learned over the years that you, the listener, don't really care about my life that much,

and so you don't really want to know that much about it, but I will, if you want,

I have a travel log, Mallor's travel log that I kept.

It's a little diary.

Oh, no.

And I can do that later, but if you don't want it, I won't do it.

I'll just talk about generic, boring sports stories, which is what most people who do

this job do. But if you want to hear about my wild adventures in the Oceana area of the world,

then we'll do that. The big story, it is the shake-up of shake-ups. And I know it's past the typical 24-hour news cycle,

but the good thing about this, I'm very lucky.

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