Welcome in and welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kenny Beach,

him the first episode of the year 2025.

Today I want to go through contenders, man.

I want to go through contenders to give my new hierarchy because things are always shifting

in the grand scheme of basketball.

Later in the episode, we're going to bring back the five out with producer Greg.

And I want to talk about the teams that I have shut off for the rest of the season.

All that and more in today's episode.

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Small ball with Candy Beach,

it might be the place for them. I cannot wait for the rest of the season, man. And we were just

talking before we loaded up about this really being the dog days of the NBA, even for me,

where my whole job is to watch, consume the NBA and talk about it. It really is. The dog days were like the entire

holiday season, I feel like I didn't watch much of live basketball, man, except for, of course,

Christmas Day was an absolute bang. But we talked about that already. I didn't, I didn't watch

much live basketball. I haven't watched much live basketball in the last week or so. I've been

doing a pretty good job of waking up early to see what I

missed, like watching the 76ers give up a 15-0 run to end a game against the Sacramento

Kings, not the greatest thing, watching Wimbun Yama go against the Clippers on New Year's Eve and just

absolutely dominant. So I've, of course, still been locked in, but also been a little less locked in

as far as being there in real time. Because one of my favorite things as I continue to grow,

like the brand of enjoy and whatever Twitter accounts and stuff was like live tweeting games.

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