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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
Bill Shaikin

No one listens to sports talk radio in L.A. Why the people in charge aren't worried.

Steve Mason Los Angeles Celtics Boston Red Sox John Ireland Boston Red Sox Dodgers NBA New England Patriots

LOS ANGELES — The New England Patriots have not played a game in two months. The Boston Red Sox are locked out of spring training. The Celtics are in season, but 10 NBA teams have better records.

On the most popular show on the most popular sports radio station in America, there is plenty to talk about. It is cold and gray in Boston on this first Monday in March, but there is fire and fury on the air.

It is the day after Kyrie Irving, who defected from the Celtics in free agency three years ago after suggesting he wanted to stay, compared the relentlessly jeering Boston fans to a "scorned girlfriend." The booing had been so harsh that Celtics star Jayson Tatum tried to hush the fans.

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