Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball with Kenny Beach. Today we're doing a mailback. And I know you're like Kenny. It's the playoffs. We're about to be in the conference finals. Why are you out answering random questions? Because let's be honest. You know, I think I may have talked about this last year. We get to this part of the season where we get like one game a night. We're about to be at the point where one game a night, which is crazy. And between this show, my three right now numbers on the board episodes, because we still got the TV show. And guess what? We have another TV show drop a week. So I'll be doing five podcasts a week on basically the same topics. And the last thing I want to do is to just have the same content across platforms. That doesn't do y'all assert, because I want to give y'all great content. Nobody's growing from that. You know, why listen to this show if you're going to listen to numbers and get the same Kenny Beacham opinion? So I'm going to try my very best to the rest of the season, duty off season, to make sure that the content is different. And the way we get the content to be different is to answer your question. You are the curator of today's show. We hit y'all up on Twitter. We hit y'all up on Instagram saying Kenny is looking for your questions. And these questions, we will get to the playoffs. Don't get me wrong. And these questions, we'll get to the lottery. We're going to get to some personal stuff. If not, okay, not super personally, we're not going to be talking about relationships and stuff, which is something that I got asked quite a bit. Relationship advice? I'm not the person for that. But like, I like to talk anime. Everyone's the way, y'all was asking. So we're going to talk about that and a lot more. I'm going to remind you to leave a like on the episode. Subscribe to the channel. Go check out those other shows, by the way. You know, I have basically done some level of coverage on every single playoff

game. It's kind of crazy to say across all these shows, I've done something on every single

playoff game. So if you look and, hey, Kenny, what did you think about Boston versus Celtics?

Boston versus Celtics. Celtics versus Nick's game five. Well, we talked about that. Shout out to Luke Cornynett, who's, you know, there's a lot of formal bulls that are making some impacts nowadays. And I'm happy for Luke Cornyette. I'm happy that he decided to stop shooting threes on a team that only shoots threes. So it's a weird fit there. But he did an amazing job keeping him alive, and I got Knicks fans in my life, not Pierre, not Pierre, I got Knicks fans in my life. They're like, uh-oh, game five, Boston Salters look a lot better than game one through four. Get well soon, Jason Tatum, all we there. Get well soon, Jason Tatum. All right, let's get into the first question. This comes from Ant 1 for MVP.

Hypothetically, and we got some cool hypotheticals in today's episode.

If there was an expansion draft this offseason, with all the second April rules,

who do you think could be some of the surprising players left unprotected?

So historically, when we've done expansions, if you are in not, you weren't around when

the Bobcats became around, you get to protect, I think it was eight players. You get to protect

eight players in your roster, which means that those players do not go into the draft pool and

the rest do. And a smart thing to do as a general manager is to not protect bad contracts. I think

that makes a lot of sense and protect your players that you care about. So I'm looking through these

rosters. And I'm like, okay, who are some players that if an expansion happened today will go unprotected?

And this is what I came up with. These are, I got two levels. I got a guaranteed or like people to make you think. The guarantees are of course Bradley Bill. Bradley Bill basically has $110 million left if you include his player option, which he will take. The sons want to get rid of him. He's got a no trade clause. That is the easiest one to leave on protecting. Guess what? If Vegas existed or Seattle existed as an NBA teams, they're not drafting that contractor Bradley

Beal, but he will be left in the pool.

Then I was thinking about some other teams, some younger teams that have a surplus of talent.

Like, you know, a part of the trade to get rid of Damian Lillard or to transition away

from the Damilera area in Portland, you acquired a guy in DeAndre Aden. You acquired Robert Williams, and then you drafted Donovan Klingan. And you're like, I feel pretty okay about if you wanted to trade Robert Williams away. There would be teams interested, even though with his injury history, you might not get a haul for him. But like teams would be interested. It's a smaller contract. I think it's got two years, like $22 million left. That's really nothing. But DeAndre Aden? It'll be hard to move on from that DeAndre Aden contract, considering every team of basketball, almost every team of basketball have a center that they trust. And I'm just not paying DeAndre Aden that amount of money left unprotected. stand with the same team. Jeremy Grant got that big-ass contract after Damian Lillard,

or right before Damian Lillard requested a trade and he has just changed so much as a player. That could be circumstantial. They could be whatever. But like Jeremy Grant used to be a guy that could do a little bit of everything and now he don't do a little bit of nothing outside of scoring the ball. so he would be left on protected because there's a lot of years left on that contract. Terry Rozier, come on, man.

Like, he don't fit into the same group of the guys like Brad. than nothing outside of scoring the ball. So he would be left on protected because there's a lot of years left on that contract.

Terry Rozier, come on, man. Like, he don't fit into the same group of the guys like Bradley B. a former All-Star, DeAndre Aidan, not a former All-Star, but was teetering that line at some point of his career. Terry Rozier is not that. But I swear the Miami Heat would love to get rid of that guy right now. I swear they would love to get rid of him right now.

Then we have a guy like Terrence Mann who still has like $35 million guaranteed on the Atlanta Hawks. I think he goes unprotected, but he's even a level lower than some of those other dudes. And now we get to the ones that are like, would they leave him unprotected? There's a lot of stuff going on in Milwaukee right now. Do Yannis won out? Does he

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