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

Now, it's a random night in the NBA, right?

You're not going to get too worked up about any individual game on a random night in the NBA.

And the Lakers are going nowhere.

The Rockets, they think they're going somewhere, but they got together.

They butted heads.

And Kyle Kuzma, who I said should have been the second pick in the NBA draft, but wasn't.

Kyle Kuzma, 38 points for the Lakers.

And the Rockets stumble and bumble at the finish line.

And they go down, despite a mammoth performance by James Hardin, who had 51 points and a giant L.

He choked on the L.

Hardin, who is about seven miles ahead of everyone else in the marathon to win the most valuable player award in the NBA.

But the NBA season does not begin until Christmas.

We've established that.

We have established that.

Now, one of the things that I have foreshadowed and predicted over my time here at Fox Sports Radio,

I have pointed out as I have read the tariff cards,

I've looked into the future, I had the prophecy that a certain player for the Rockets was fragile.

And you don't have to call a psychic cot line.

You just call the Ben Mather Show.

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