NBA Panic Meter for Eliminated Teams
Small Ball with Kenny Beecham
Kenny Beecham
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kenny runs through his Game 7 reactions before sharing his panic meter rankings for eliminated teams and discussing the conference semi-finals!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kenny Beecham. |
| 0:08.5 | Guess what, y'all? |
| 0:09.5 | Just like that, the first round of the playoffs is over. |
| 0:13.7 | And you know what? |
| 0:15.0 | Straight up 8 plus plus from almost everybody involved. |
| 0:19.0 | I think that every series, except for one, no disrespect to Thunder versus Sons, |
| 0:22.3 | but Godly Thunder versus Sons went exactly the way we expected and they give us no wild cards. |
| 0:26.0 | Every other series ended up giving us something, you know, a new narrative to play around with, |
| 0:32.1 | great games game winners, the future of a team being in jeopardy, it ends up being a phenomenal first |
| 0:39.6 | round. And maybe I'm just living in a moment. But it feels like one of the best first rounds |
| 0:44.6 | we've had where we had, you know, top seeds and multiple conferences looking like they were |
| 0:51.0 | on the brink of elimination in the first round the one seeded 60 win |
| 0:55.5 | pistons had to go to seven to get rid of their eight seed of Orlando magic the two seeded boss |
| 1:00.6 | the Celties is straight up out of the tournament y'all the Denver Nuggets a team that many of us |
| 1:05.6 | believe to be contenders is straight up out of the tournament so it ended up being really really |
| 1:10.3 | really fun. |
| 1:11.4 | And hell, instead of just being the first round series, let's go back to the playing. |
| 1:14.4 | That was a banger too. |
| 1:15.4 | So I just felt like since the turn of regular season versus postseason, we've got everything. |
| 1:21.4 | And all the old heads that been talking trash about our league, not playing defense, being too soft, being this, being that. |
| 1:27.8 | This first round of the postseason was for you. |
| 1:30.4 | Because I thought defense was amazing. |
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