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

The NBA turning green for a day.

It was the 4th of July.

It still is on the West Coast, and the Boston Celtics get the big fish they had been going for.

How many months?

How many years has Boston been trying to get that player, that one additional player?

Now they have it, so now that you have to win. Welcome in the beginning of another hour and another edition of the Ben Mather Show. We are in the air everywhere, the vast Fox Sports

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Think of this show as a spectacular display of fireworks of the verbal sports hot take variety.

So if you look at it from that perspective and through those glasses, you're going to enjoy the show.

We've got the barbecue going like our friend in Washington who's cooking stuff up all night. We've got that going. We've got the fireworks going like our friend in Washington.

He was cooking stuff up all night.

We've got that going.

We've got the fireworks, the whole thing.

And I'd like to thank Gordon Hayward for waiting until the 4th of July.

I was concerned we were going to have to break down the depth chart on the Tigers or something like that if this had not gone the way it went.

But Gordon Hayward sucking every ounce of suspense out of the Independence Day basketball conversation, or at least that is the story that we are being fed, right?

We're being spoon fed that he didn't know where he was going to go. He slept

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