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

And no, we're not going to go down.

LeBron James Highway.

We're trying to avoid that as much as we can.

We know at some point we'll have in-depth team coverage.

But everyone's obsessed with LeBron James. We're not doing that here.

We have much more important business to take care of.

Now, as the self-proclaimed from a listener, nocturnal kernel of Foxport Radio,

you know, I have the most nicknames of anyone in radio.

I don't have the most listeners.

I don't make the most money far from it.

But I do have the most nicknames.

And one of them is the nocturnal kernel.

We cover the late night hours here.

We hide behind the darkness of the late night hours, and I do my work under that cover of darkness,

much like a vampire.

I sleep during the day.

So you can understand, you've worked the third shift, if you find these hours appealing or you just have insomnia, you live a similar life to me.

So you know I was a bit surprised when I woke up and had an assortment of grumpy messages on social media.

I was like trying to flashback.

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