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

Call it the shamrock shake.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere.

It's kind of a partnership.

It really is.

As we let her rip coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and monolithically

powerful microphones of f sr emanating live from the line as we go across the finish line

the fox sports radio studios back at a secret location somewhere as we go across the finish line, the Fox Sports Radio Studios,

back at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

So our lead this hour coming from the Bay Area,

the chase is on for the NBA title.

Ironically, at the Chase Center, the Hoops House in San Francisco

where tickets were not cheap and all the prologue has come to an end, all the chatter,

curtains up, it's showtime in the Apollo or the Chase Center.

So the Celtics Awards, round one of what is scheduled to be a time in the Apollo or the Chase Center.

So the Celtics are worst, round one of what is scheduled to be a seven-round heavyweight matchup unless someone is knocked out in the fifth, sixth round, possibly the fourth round.

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