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Welcome in the beginning of a new week of the Ben Mallor show as we are together in the air everywhere.

Stepping forward, coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the moe as we play an audio game of Wackamo, the Fox Sports Radio Studios, at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

Hope you had a good full moon weekend out of festivities going on over the weekend.

But I'll lead this hour coming from the NBA, the NBA playoffs.

And if you were expecting a bonanza of first round matchups that went down to the wire,

you are disappointed.

Typically, the opening stanza produces a lot of mismatches,

and we had much of that blowout city right and left.

We had one game, one game that stood out from all the rest,

head and shoulders of every other game in the NBA playoffs,

and that would be in Boston.

The Nets paying a visit.

A matchup that in a normal time would have been a conference final.

But this, just the opening round of the playoffs

because the Nets were blah during the regular season,

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