Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show.

We're talking about the playoffs with our friend Kenny Beecham.

And then, guys, Josh Robbins is back to talk about the Orlando Magic in part two. But to help intro our guest is my good friend Alex Spears. Alex, tell me, tell me about Kenny. Tell me what we're going to talk about today. Folks, he's back. We're so excited to have him back. You know him from podcast. Numbers on the board, Smallball with Kenny Beecham. You I'm from YouTube. KOT4Q. Kenny for real. Also, Kenny has a new show in collaboration with the NBA called Enjoy the NBA Trivia Show. First episode came out last week, which I was a little confused, Kenny, because I just watched you in another trivia show.

Yeah, I do a lot of trivia.

And you're going to do more today.

It was on YouTube for Clash where you went head-to-head against three other contestants on 2010's NBA trivia.

And I won't spoil it for anyone because they should go watch, but I'll just let you know I did really terrible as I went through it.

So what we're going to do, Kenny, is I've come up with some first round awards.

So for each award, we'll explain the award and we'll give you three finalists.

Now, you are welcome to go off the board, if you'd like, But you will be selecting the winner for each of these awards, starting with our first award, the most positive surprise of the first round starter edition.

Now, our three finalists are C.J. McComb for becoming the reluctant Knicks villain.

Scoot Henderson for averaging 24 and a half points per game

through his first two playoff games, and the other finalist, Rudy Gobert, for making Yokic

look mortal in the Wolf's series. Now, do you like any of those for that award, or would you like

to go off the board? I think those are the top three, man. This is a great battle for this spot.

If I had to pick the winner to, okay, look, okay, the case for season McCollum, literally

a salary dump acquisition, and he's leading the team in the playoffs, right?

The case for School Henderson, four weeks ago ago you'd be like hmm dames coming back

Andrew holiday where's school's minutes coming and he's got 30 in the playoff game and then

rudy gobert my goodness what they say yoke had scored the most points against anybody in a regular

season against rudy and now through three games he can't do anything this is a this is a great

group of guys i think ultimately i got to give it to c jac mollum. We did a little segment on our show a few weeks back of, like, potential free agents and who can sign where. CJ McCollum came back and not a single one of us thought about the idea of him resigning with the Atlanta Hawks pre-playoffs. And that was like, they kind of have no choice based the way he's on he's playing. Like we thought that maybe Detroit could use some secondary ball handling.

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