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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, our number two of our radio show and the monologue you needed but didn't realize you wanted.

The Pistons and Lakers, the fallout from the fight the other night, did the NBA get the punishment right for LeBron and the Donnybrook with Isaiah Stewart of the Pistons?

A frame by frame, thorough breakdown,

and a heated debate with the Coupa Loop.

That and much more coming your way right now in hour number two.

To the judge's scorecards, we go welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere as we sit at the Shmendrix table, coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and extremely powerful microphones of FSR emanating

live from the circle the squared circle of audio pugilism the Fox Sports Radio

studio somewhere at a secret location off the grid in the Northwood.

So our lead this hour is what we all hoped would come yesterday.

But we had football to talk about yesterday.

So it comes from the Hall of Justice, NBA style.

NBA style justice.

We have looked at this scientifically. And we now have our ruling on the ruckus in Motown

between the Lakers and the Pistons, and this will be the last Pistons-related monologue that we do all NBA season,

so we get it out of the way right now.

So we had LeBron James versus Isaiah Stewart on the undercard.

And they got into it.

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