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Small Ball with Kenny Beecham

Which NBA Teams Are Now Contenders?

Small Ball with Kenny Beecham

Kenny Beecham

Basketball, Sports

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Kenny runs through his list of teams that have jumped a tier, and then the teams he thinks have taken a step back. Also, an adress to Raptors fans and a Small Ball state of the union. Follow Small Ball! Small Ball on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@enjoy_smallball Small Ball on IG - https://www.instagram.com/enjoysmallball/ Small Ball on Twitter - https://x.com/EnjoyBBall Sign Up @FanDuel: http://fanduel.com/kenny. Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com.Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800) 327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.2

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0:30.1

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0:33.8

Lots of us feel like we understand our dogs,

0:37.3

but scientists who actually study dogs say we might be a bit overconfident.

0:44.3

We're just not as smart as we think we are when it comes to understanding our dogs.

0:49.3

This we've got to explain it to me. Do we actually know what our dogs are feeling? Or are we just

0:55.2

fooling ourselves? New episodes every Sunday. Welcome back to another episode of Small Ball

1:03.9

with Kenny Beach. I'm going to say this right now. I'm filming this July 3rd, around 10 o'clock

1:08.4

central time. So when you listen to this, maybe some big old trade has happened. Maybe another big free agency deal has happened. And if that is the case, don't worry, you can still listen to this show. And if there is more stuff dropping, go over to the Kenny Friel YouTube channel, because I'll probably cover it there as well. I'm really excited for today's episode, man. There are a lot of teams doing some cool things. Has not been the craziest of free agencies, I'll say that. I think yesterday we got like one signing and then one coach being decided. So it's not, you know, it's already dying down two days in. But there are teams being really aggressive. And in today's episode, I kind of want to go over teams that switch tears, went from a playing team to a

1:46.3

real playoff team, went from a team to a contender, maybe went the opposite direction, from a

1:52.1

contender to are they even going to make the playoffs? A lot of things, again, are changing to shaping

1:58.0

things up. For example, this morning I woke up and saw that the Doran Finney Smith signing for the Houston Rockets may turn into a sign and trade, which means that the Lakers may get something. So again, all of this is very, very fluid. In between this show, numbers on the board and the Kenny Friel Channel, hopefully I'm doing a decent job of covering all things free agency. Summer League is just in a couple days. We got like

2:18.6

the, is it California Summer League? The Utah Summer League starts this weekend. And of course,

2:22.6

Vegas starts a little bit after that. One of my first years in a long time where I won't

2:26.3

be in Vegas for Summer League. So I'm a little upset about that. My upset is the wrong word.

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