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It's our number three, hour three of our radio program, the rare and appropriate NBA monologue.

Big story in the NBA, the future of Ben Simmons percolating yet again.

The agent for Ben Simmons and the 76ers Brass had a meeting at a high-end restaurant in Philadelphia about their stalemate. What are the odds that Ben Simmons is traded?

There's less than a month to go before the February 10th NBA trade deadline.

We'll give you the maller odds on Ben Simmons being traded right now in our number three.

It is an NBA trade logjam.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour of the Ben Mather show.

We are side by side in the air everywhere as we provide eloquent silence between the words,

coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast and tremendously powerful

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From the mouth, the big mouth of the overnight radio dial, the Fox Sports Radio

Studios, at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

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