I Ranked Game 1 of Every NBA Playoff Series
Small Ball with Kenny Beecham
Kenny Beecham
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kenny shares his rankings for the first game of every round 1 playoff series. He also discusses which teams can bounce back to even the series in Game 2.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kenny Beecham. |
| 0:08.3 | It is finally time. |
| 0:10.2 | The last, I don't know, five, six episodes we've been doing nothing but prepping for the |
| 0:15.4 | post season, prep for the post season, prep for the post season. |
| 0:18.5 | And ladies and gentlemen, it's here. |
| 0:21.8 | And boy, oh boy. |
| 0:23.4 | Like, okay, okay, let me, let me be honest. |
| 0:26.1 | Gays are bit cool. |
| 0:27.4 | We ain't had no crazy games just yet, but I promise you it's going to happen. |
| 0:31.8 | Hey, it might even happen tonight because Monday, the NBA playoffs continue. |
| 0:35.9 | Raptors versus calves, Hawks versus Knicks, and Wolves versus Nuggets on NBC and Pcocktoon |
| 0:43.4 | in, y'all. |
| 0:44.8 | So I've been excited. |
| 0:45.9 | I've been having a lot of fun. |
| 0:47.1 | This whole weekend just consisted of me sitting in my office watching basketball. |
| 0:52.6 | Some of the games I watched completely solo. Some of the times one of my daughters came in and watched it with me. Lo-key, she weren't really watching. She was watching the other TV because Vita the Vett was on. Shout out to Vita the Vett. You be holding this. You be holding the beach of my house down for show. But just ball watching from, I don't know, 12 to 12 every single day. The first weekend is always really fun. As we know, it's not going to be that much basketball from here and out. So I took it and I had a lot of fun. On today's episode, a way for me to talk about every single game that we got to some capacity. I'm just going to rank them. The most fun. The most fun for different reasons, you know. Was it a cool outcome? Was it an individual performance that made it interesting? |
| 1:29.5 | But I'm going to rank all of the eight games, okay? |
| 1:32.8 | Starting off, which I think the most interesting game of them all. |
| 1:36.2 | You know, sometimes, again, it's about a good game, good performances, big implications with game one. |
| 1:41.8 | It is game one at the end of the day. |
| 1:43.0 | But I think the most interesting one was the Orlando Magic winning game one going |
| 1:46.9 | into Detroit, the one seed of Detroit Pistons team home and beating them 112 to 101. |
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