NBA Awards Are Impossible
Small Ball with Kenny Beecham
Kenny Beecham
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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From picking his All-NBA teams, doing some NBA would-you-rathers, talking some college hoops, and even some comics discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kenny Beecham. I'm so excited to be here today |
| 0:09.2 | because we're bringing back a good old friend. It's been a few episodes, maybe even a few months |
| 0:13.3 | this last time you did ask KB. I say, hey, what if we did an entire episode where I answered |
| 0:17.8 | your question? So that's what we're doing today. We got NBA. We got a football |
| 0:22.0 | question, I think. Um, non-N NBA. People ask me about comics. And I was like, I can't, I can't have the whole show be about comics, but damn, but I can pull one question to kind of get into my comic bag just a little bit. So it should be a nice fun one. Made me think on a lot of these questions I truly, truly do appreciate. Let's just jump right into it, right? Let's get to the |
| 0:39.3 | first question that comes from Valentino that says, do you think, Luca, is a first team all-NBA player because he gets, well, now I'm going to fix your verbiage here. I'm going to fix your words in this question. He gets so much hate from ESPN, etc. |
| 0:55.5 | They're saying Brown, Cunningham are better than him, question mark. Now, I will say right here |
| 1:00.1 | publicly, anybody that doesn't have Luca Dant's first team all NBA is ridiculous. Just straight |
| 1:06.0 | up ridiculous. We got to the point now where guys like Luca or guys like Shea, hell, even guys like Yolkich, |
| 1:12.0 | they have been doing what they've been doing for so long, then we kind of get bored. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm sorry, not we, not we, because they are my first team. |
| 1:19.3 | But people start to get bored, right? |
| 1:20.9 | We do got a cool story of Kay Cunningham and the Detroit Piss as being the one C. |
| 1:24.9 | We do got a cool story of Jalen Brown, not having Jason Tatum for the majority of the season of them still being one of the top teams in the league. I can understand the narrative base of all of that. The stats are the stats. So I'm like, okay, Kenny, put your money where your mouth is. What does your all NBA teams look like? And I want to say, I'm a preface by saying this is a rough draft. I won't have my official, unofficial ballot for another month until these seasons ends. But it really made me think about all-in-Ba, which again, Valentino, I appreciate. So here's my three all-NBA teams as of today. March 16th, 2026, again, a full month. And things can be revised and things might be changed the next time we talk about awards. The first team, the first four spots are so simple. As long as Wimb and Yama plays the necessary amount of games, I think he can only miss two or three more games, so you keep that in the back of our mind. All NBA first team in no specific order should be Shea. It should be Luca. It should be Wimby, it should be Yokic. Those four are |
| 2:19.6 | absolute locks. I can understand having Brown on your first team or cunning him on your first |
| 2:24.1 | team, but not at the expense of those four guys. It's really about this fifth spot. That's for the |
| 2:28.5 | long time trying to figure out who I wanted all-MBA first team. Between, again, Cade, |
| 2:32.5 | between Anthony Edwards,alen Brown donovan |
| 2:35.1 | Mitchell Kuwait Leonard these are all guys that were in running for the first team |
| 2:40.1 | and I ultimately gave it to to Kauai now his case is a lot different than the cases of |
| 2:46.1 | these other dudes because as we know the clippers as of today as I record this episode are |
| 2:50.6 | sitting at the 8 seat they're only one game above 500. You're like, Kenny, you're giving an all-in-day first-team spot to a guy that is on a team that is one game above 500? Yeah. I truly just feel like he's been one of the five best players in the league for, I don't know, the last one, just five months of the season. That first |
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