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

Well, it does not end.

It does not end.

The NBA speculation getting cranked up, even the holidays, a couple days away.

Well, who are we kidding?

The holiday's really right here.

Most people aren't working on Monday.

Well, most regular people aren't working on Monday.

But the story, which is going around, a report that we've heard here, that Carmelo Anthony will waive his no trade clause to get out of New York.

And he wants to play for two teams, either the Cleveland Cadabbers or the Houston Rockets. One of those two

teams Carmelo Anthony wants to play

for. Now, neither one

makes any sense, and I'll tell you why.

First of all, Cleveland.

Right? Cleveland, Carmelo Anthony

and LeBron James, I guess they're BFF,

if you go way back in the hot tub time machine to when they were playing AAU basketball and navigating their way up to the NBA game.

They're familiar with each other.

They've gone back a number of years, Mello and LeBron.

The issue is how they will work together, shall we say?

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