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Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben Mallor show.

We're here in the air everywhere as we crash down coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast.

And lavishly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the store, the toy store,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere off the

grid in the North Woods and hope you had a great weekend. We are back at it. The work week begins

now because we're here working. So our lead this hour coming from Pro Bouncy Ball. That's right.

Now it is not, not a deep dive on one of the games played on Sunday.

There were a bunch of games.

No, no, no, no.

Instead, it's about alleged superstar, former number one overall pick in the draft

who has fallen on hard times here and is missing in action,

has gone AWOL.

And it's a very compelling story.

It's the catch of the day, if you will, here in the NBA.

And if you thought that Ben Simmons was going to make his debut for the Nets in the game

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