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

It is a yearly tradition.

We've done it for several years now running since LeBron went back to Cleveland,

the Cavaliers, usually post holidays right around this time of the year,

sometimes even earlier, and they end up just being brutal.

They appear to have outdone themselves, though, with this particular stretch of diarrhea that they are spreading in the United States and Canada, and Canada as well,

because the cavaliers visiting the Toronto Raptors, who I am not taking seriously, and the

Cavaliers also not taking the Toronto Raptors seriously.

The midpoint of the NBA season for the Cavaliers, and not only are they're an NBA team,

they are a disgrace the way they performed there.

The Toronto Raptors took them to the woodshed.

That was a dinosaur smashing an ant is what it was.

Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield.

And we know the result of this particular game here.

The Cavaliers in a nationally televised game like that matters.

What does matter for the purposes

of our conversation more people had access to this but it was the worst margin of defeat

the most points allowed this season and that comes after the previous record which was the

last game right it's Minnesota so they're stacking them up, baby.

They're lining them up and stacking them up.

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