Biggest Roadblocks for NBA Teams
Small Ball with Kenny Beecham
Kenny Beecham
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kenny Beecham. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:09.7 | We got about 20 to 25 games left of the NBA season for a lot of casuals and a lot of people |
| 0:16.2 | that been into football or some of the other sports. |
| 0:18.9 | This is where the NBA season actually starts. So I kind of want to give y'all like a little breakdown, if you will, of some of the other sports. This is where the NBA season actually starts. |
| 0:21.1 | So I kind of want to give you all like a little breakdown, if you will, of some of the |
| 0:24.6 | top teams in the league and what I believe to be their biggest roleblock heading into |
| 0:29.3 | the postseason. |
| 0:30.5 | Now, there are a lot of teams, in my opinion, that could genuinely win the championship. |
| 0:34.6 | I love the parody era. |
| 0:36.2 | I think this year is one of those years where, like, |
| 0:39.5 | I came into the season so heavily OKC. OKC was what 24 and 1. We able to hail the number ended up |
| 0:44.7 | being. Obviously now with injuries of dub and Shab being now, it feels like the gap between |
| 0:49.4 | them and the second team and the third team has shrunk so much, that is anybody's year. And it's, |
| 0:54.9 | it's so insane to say that. And I think it's going to boil down to matchups and all of this |
| 0:59.4 | and seedings and home court advantages for game sevens and so many different things. And that's |
| 1:03.1 | why we love this goddamn sport because you never really know. So I will say before we get into |
| 1:08.2 | the first team and so on and so forth, I did not do this for all of the playoff teams. Because in a lot of cases, the 7th C, the 8 C, their roadblock is the 1 or 2 C they're going to see in the first round. You feel me? So I went to, let me count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ten. I went to twelve. Twelve is pretty respectable, right? Twelve of the potential 16 teams is going to be making into the postseason. I got a little opinion on. And the reason why this makes it even more difficult because with the play-in, the pool of teams that could be in the postseason is 20. So 12 of 20, if you will. But this is just a way to kind of look at the best of the |
| 1:46.4 | teams and what could be the reason why they don't end up doing the ultimate goal. Because I think |
| 1:50.7 | of all the teams that I have here, all of them have expectations or the aspiration to win a |
| 1:56.8 | championship. The only team here that I can't say that fully is like the Toronto Raptors. |
| 2:01.1 | I feel like who I have on my list, the Toronto Raptors are a team that this has found money, |
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