Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beacham.

And I truly do mean, welcome back.

You know, after the season or during the season, we've been doing a really good job of making

sure y'all get one episode a week.

When I tell you, I had one of the craziest travel weeks of my life last week, and that was the reason why you did not get an

episode. I have been, I guess I took my first flight when I was 21 years old, so a little bit

later than a lot of people. And I would say I've had the most amount of luck when it comes to

travel, where I rarely get delays. Obviously, I've taken off in one place and landed another

place successfully. You know, we do get the turbulence occasionally, but for the most part, I've taken off in one place and landed another place successfully.

You know, we do get the turbulence occasionally, but for the most part, I've been having really good luck with travel.

And then I was just in New York slash some other places for a work meeting.

And it was supposed to be a 24-hour trip, not even a 24-hour trip, more like a 15-hour trip.

And our flight kept getting delayed and delayed and delayed. Then eventually they let us board. We taxied to the runway. And then we sit on the runway

for three hours waiting to take off. And not only did we not take off, we taxied our ass right

back to the terminal, got off, and the flight was completely canceled. So I was stuck in New York

City for an extra day. And as they rescheduled me, they rescheduled these flights. It was two days later. And not only was it just two days later, it had two layovers. We're talking about New York to Chicago. That flight is usually about an hour and a half, two hours. They wanted me to fly to Virginia, then fly to Minnesota, and they go from Minnesota to home. And I was like, no, I can't do that.

First of all, I like New no, I can't do that.

First of all, I like New York. I don't love New York. When I want to get out, I want to get out. So I ran to the car, and I drove the 14 hours from New York City to Chicago just to get home. And, you know, I'm a whole time I'm talking to producer Greg, like, yeah, we might have an episode, we should have an episode.

By the time I got home in Chicago, it was nothing I

wanted to do more than sit my ass down for 24 hours. We're not in a literal sense. I was standing

for most of that because I sat down for 14 hours. So I'm just, here we are. We're here,

and we're here to talk basketball now after one week of not being able to

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