I Ranked NBA Teams By Expectations
Small Ball with Kenny Beecham
Kenny Beecham
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kenny gets into his Knicks-Bulls experience before going through tiers of teams based on expectations before the season. What a season it's been!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beecham. |
| 0:07.7 | On today's episode, we're going to talk about all 30 teams with the lens of did this team meet expectations coming into the season. |
| 0:15.9 | But y'all know over here, we don't just have yes or no answers. |
| 0:19.0 | We don't have normal type of tiers. So we're tier ranking them in a different way. So I'm excited for this one. Next time we talk to each other, next time you have an episode, we'll be geared enough for the NBA playing. So like, this is it. This is all. And I'm so happy for that because the other day, Friday night, I had like a, I don't know, existential crisis, I guess you could call it, where I order out some food Friday night. |
| 0:42.1 | You know, you indulge a little bit, a little bit more than usual. |
| 0:45.7 | My family was gone. |
| 0:46.8 | My girls had a play date with a family friend, so my wife and my daughters are gone. |
| 0:50.6 | So I got the whole crib to myself on this Friday night. |
| 0:53.4 | I guess some food delivered |
| 0:54.4 | and I sit down in my office to watch Bulls versus Knicks. And about three minutes into this game, |
| 1:00.7 | I had to stand up and leave. And I had to like really think to myself, what the hell am I, |
| 1:06.0 | what am I doing? It's a nice weathered Friday night. And instead of doing something productive or doing something |
| 1:12.7 | fun, I am torturing myself. We're watching a good team go against a really bad team. So I'm so |
| 1:20.5 | excited and so happy for the play in to be right around the corner because these, in theory, |
| 1:24.9 | at least after the play in, we should get nothing but good teams |
| 1:27.9 | going against good teams. |
| 1:29.2 | We should get the most intense level of basketball we've ever seen started in a week or so. |
| 1:33.8 | So I'm really excited for it, man. |
| 1:35.9 | The Bulls, that game really broke me. |
| 1:37.7 | And I've seen a lot of bad Bulls games in my life. |
| 1:39.8 | But that game is one of them ones that you like, |
| 1:46.1 | the next day I looked at the schedule and I said, |
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