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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour one of our radio program and the stutter from the NBA playoffs, Dallas, without Luca Donchick, upset Utah because Jalen Brunson had an out-of-body experience.

Who's responsible, though, the better story in the losing locker room?

Who's responsible for the jazz stumbling against an injury-laden Maverick team?

We'll answer that question and many others right now in our number one.

Hitting a sour note, welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show as we are in the air everywhere,

taking new prisoners.

None, I promise, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful, enormously powerful,

microphones of FSR as we emanate live from the race, the race against time,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios,

at a secret location somewhere in the North Woods,

and we are glad to have you along for another night in the rat race of overnight sports talk radios.

Here we are bloviating the night away.

So our lead this hour coming from the NBA

is not, not the game that we thought we would be talking about.

We had a couple of duds and one game that went down to the wire,

a head-turning result in Dallas, not in Philadelphia, in Dallas.

I don't know if you watched this or not.

Possibly not.

Jalen Bruntz flashing back to his college days, he scored 41 points.

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