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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, our number four of our radio show and the Boston Celtics.

Ennis Cantor Freedom says he has been encouraged to continue tugging at the King's Cape by one of LeBron's teammates in L.A., a new revelation from Ennis Cantor Freedom,

who do you think the Laker teammate is allegedly encouraging the needling of LeBron?

We'll get to that and much more right now in our number four.

Here it is.

Not going as planned.

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

We are together in the air everywhere as we tag along coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast and powerful

microphones of FSR emanating live from the wave, the microwave of hot sports takes, the Fox Sports Radio Studios,

at a secret location somewhere in the Northwood.

So hope all is well with you.

We're back at it again.

And the NBA, there is a basketball story here.

We'll get back to the football shortly.

But a NBA story caught my attention.

Now, it's not specifically about the Laker game last night, the Memphis Grizzlies,

without their top two players, John Morant and Dylan Brooks, out of the lineup.

And they still beat the Lakers.

And so the pressure being cranked up on Frank Vogel,

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