Welcome in and welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beetzum.

Today, we have a trade in the NBA?

I didn't even know that was possible anymore.

It's just so many rumors and no action.

But we do have a trade that we're going to talk about.

I want to talk about the Boston Celtics and their recent stress because, boy, it has not been good. And then I want to stick on a positive note. You know, we're about halfway through the NBA season. I picked out seven things that have made me really excited about the first 40 or so games. Before we get into it, I'm going to remind you to leave a like on the episode. subscribe to the channel, tell a friend, the telefriend that small ball with Kenny Beacham is what you need to be at. Maybe I shouldn't even be talking about this on this podcast, but we are doing a live show in San Francisco. If you're going to be there for All Star Week, not Small Ball, but numbers on the board, which I'm a part of. So if you want to meet, if you want to come out, just know that more details I'll maybe have for next week.

But just we're doing a live show, man, special guests, cool stuff. We always try to do some really cool stuff for the live shows, making more interactive. You know, you got a live audience. You got to keep them entertained. So it always is a blast. I'm just saying if you're in the San Francisco area around All-Star,

lock in. More details coming soon. All right, let's start off with the trade. You know,

you get, you get rumors about Jimmy Butler. You get rumors about the Houston Rockets being really

interested in Devin Booker and Casey became available in the trade that we get is Nick Richards.

Damn. Can I say real quick, I am over the Jimmy Butler, Pat Riley. He says, she said thing.

It's going way too far. Hey, Jimmy Butler has been taking private jets to stay away from the team,

paying some extra money for whatever reason. Then Jimmy Butler's team is saying, no, no, no, no, no, I only did that when my father was sick the four times. That was it. So it's like, I don't know what to believe. I don't know who's been telling the truth, but it's got real ugly, really, really fast. And I guess it's kind of the Jimmy Butler way, right? He going to make you feel uncomfortable. And Pat Riley being 80

years old, how do you make an 80 year old feel uncomfortable? I don't know if you can. The man's

live like four lives. If you think about him as a ball player, you think about him as a coach and him as a

GM, he's seen it all. So it's like just too stubborn, big-headed people trying to win this battle.

And I'm just over. Hopefully we see a

trade because even the idea, and this is not you're supposed to be what this is about, I just don't

get the idea of Jimmy Butler reporting back to the team. And that's about to happen, right? His

suspension is over after tomorrow's game. So will he report back? Will it make sense for the team to have a disgruntled star in the locker room? Especially if it was reported that his old teammates in Cal Lari was no longer there, felt some type of way about Jimmy Butler not being on. This is not this first part of the episode is supposed to be about, but I'm just tired of it. You know, I hope that we can come to an agreement that Jimmy Butler moves to his next team and then Tyler Hero, who we will talk about later, continue to blossom. All right, let's talk about this trade where backup center got moved and everybody cares about it. The Charlotte Hornets trade is sent her Nick Richards in a second round pick to the Phoenix Sons for Ford, Josh Akogi, and three second round picks. This is where I get real interesting of your real NBA nerd. The Horn has sent out a 2025 Denver second round pick to Phoenix. Not really a super valuable pick. The Diver Nuggets are playing great basketball as of right now. Trade a trade of the 2026 Diver Nugget second round pick, another pick that's probably not going to be that valuable because they have Nicole Yokitz but they do have two picks down the line the second round is

a 2031 from Denver who knows where Yolkids is going to be I'm going to assume he's there but it's a

231 from Phoenix that's the one that's real interesting y'all because the Phoenix sons have now pretty

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