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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our three of the Ben Maller Show, this hour dedicated to the Eastern Conference.

We get away from the Western Conference.

Game one of the Eastern Conference final,

and the Boston Celtics get burned late by the Miami Heat,

a legendary block.

So who from Boston gets to have the blame put on?

Then we'll play the blame game for the Boston Celtics here as they go down.

And one of the people, a surprise, getting a bulk of the blame game.

We'll get to that here in hour number three.

It's coming your way right now.

If you can't beat the heat, you got problems.

And that's where the Boston Celtics find themselves right now.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere, coast to coast, border to border and beyond as we blowviate

the overnight hours away here from the

Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Although we're apart these days, we're sharing more,

and Geico is sharing more too with the Geico give back.

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