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

It is the night or the morning before,

depending on how you look at the start of NBA free agency.

And Coach Cal getting in the middle of this,

the plot twist of the basketball reality show.

And some people saying there's lies, well, it's definitely lies.

Someone's not telling the truth here with the latest.

Just as Phil Jackson says goodbye to New York, exiting stage right, another, another twist here with John Calapari.

I assume you've heard this by now. It's been going around that the Kentucky coach,

his name popped up. Now, the initial report, which made the rounds.

Everyone was chattering about this was that John Calipari was interested in becoming the president of the Knicks.

Big headlines all over the place.

Everyone's yapping about this.

Now, Calipari, the initial story was that he had reached out through intermediaries,

that he had the middlemen to try to figure out a way to get together with the New York Knicks

and presumably to coach the team as well.

Well, that was the story.

And then the social media accounts of Coach Cal changed that.

He denied everything.

But there are many saying that he denied that,

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