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

Oh, it was supposed to be the Sixers!

All I heard in this lead-up to the Celtics and the Sixers was all about Philadelphia.

Now, listen, the first game, they just sucked.

That was a cup of jello for the Celtics in game one of the conference finals in the East, and it was a much more interesting game, too.

The Philadelphia 76ers, the darlings of the media elite that cover the NBA,

celebrating, romancing all of these ill-begotten games of the 76ers through no furious ways.

The shady activity of the Sixers.

But let's focus in on Game 2.

Let's focus.

Did you watch it?

Did you check it out?

Early on, the Sixers jumped all over Boston.

And I was getting those annoying, wretched people from the Delaware Valley.

You know what I'm talking about.

Those undemesticated animals from Philadelphia that were starting to do a little victory lap in the first quarter

because they were jumping all over the Celtics.

And JJ Reddick looked like Steph Curry in the beginning of that game, knocking down

money balls.

Man, he looked good.

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