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

So the NBA has decided to go on a gap year situation.

They've got this NBA plus.

They've decided to take a lot of time.

So what that does is it frees us, right?

We've been empowered to talk about other things.

All right, while they're on break and they have their intermission, God forbid, they continue to have a game every night.

You can't do that.

No, no, you got to have an interruption and build the suspense up.

I assume that's what they're doing.

Well, they're actually, what they're doing is they're appeasing and pacifying the television provider is what they're doing.

So I get it.

I'm not naive to that.

But there's no real buzzworthy thing in the NBA.

There's nothing there.

Rather than sit here and force something, we will not do that.

I mean, I do, I want to talk a little bit about the NBA playoffs later, but the story

that caught my attention, it's a follow-up to something that we talked about a couple

of days ago.

It involves Robinson Canoe, don't you know.

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