Welcome back to another episode of Smallball with Kitty Beach. My goodness, my goodness, my goodness.

What a week for me. What a week for me. And I haven't felt this level of hope as a fan of a sports team in quite some time. No, let me take that back. I haven't felt this level of hope for a Bulls team. Because I felt this level, we got the first overall pick here in Chicago just a couple years ago. We got Caleb Williams, which is dope. But the moment that we found out the Bulls were drafting top four my goodness my heart dropped but like this is the

first time my heart dropped in a positive way my i was just telling producer greg the lottery

happened as i record this episode this lottery happened about eight hours ago i have not stopped

thinking about the draft we had two playoff games go down and of course i did my job and watched

it but at the whole time at the back of my head, I'm thinking about scenarios of the draft. I'm trying to figure out who going to end up at four. I know it may seem very easy. It's going to fall in line, but I don't know, man. People get antsy. We got 44 days into the NBA draft. If you're trying to tell me that's not going to be some GM that's thinking about it over the next 44 days and overthinking to not take the guy that they're projected to take. It always happens. So that's what I've been thinking about. But we will. We will in today's episode talk about the two games that we just watched was the New York Knicks getting to the conference finals. And the Minnesota Tim Bulls barely getting out of the skin of their teeth against a nearly Wimbun Yama list, San Antonio Spurs.

And before we get into, I will remind you that me and my guys, the numbers on the board, co-host,

we are doing a live show June 24th, 2026, in Brooklyn, New York.

So I'm going to be, I mean, I don't know if I'm going to be in the building for the NBA draft.

I'm going to try my very best now that we got picked for.

But I'm going to be in New York for the draft.

It was meant to be.

It was meant to be. And I've said this before. I am so blessed and so lucky to be in a position that I'm in where a lot of the people that are in this year's draft have been viewers of mine or we've had conversations with.

So some of the people projected in top four

I've sent a DMs like or we've had conversations with.

So some of the people projected in top four, I've been sent a DMs, like, what you think about the city? Because all of them are here for the draft lottery drawing. So I'm like, what do you think about the city? I got some responses. Some people are excited. Some people just gave me an emoji because they can't give me too much. They don't know what's going to happen. but I'm really, really excited.

Okay, before we get into the lottery, winners and losers, let's talk about the playoffs because today the New York Knicks did it again. They have not lost NBA game or their 6-0 in the last 6, which is amazing. This is the second time they went into a close-out game and put the

Smackdown on. We saw what they did to Atlanta where at one point they were up, what, 60 to 19? And in this game, it wasn't that big of a gap, 60 to 19, but like they put foot on necks immediately. They ended this game shooting 56% from three. Deuce McBride first quarter, he has scored like 12 straight points just by himself shot after shot after shot.

Oh, J. LeBrunsen, Mr. Tocke. percent from three. Deuce McBride first quarter, he has scored like 12 straight points just by

himself, shot after shot after shot. Oh, Jalen Brunson, missed the top one of the top American players in league. He goes six May threes. Josh Hart, four made threes. Landry Schamondon off the bench. Over the last two games, Landry Shannon is getting my MVP award because you traditionally know or you normally know what you're going to get from a guy like Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson, you get an idea of what you're going to get from Carinthine and the towns do this wrong. But to have a guy like Landry come off the bench in the last game, play with so much energy and hit shots. And in this game, replicate that again. It's great because they haven't had O I'd Anobie over the last couple.

And he was questionable for game three.

They decided that we can win this without him. And they did in the game four, they're like, okay, we have three-oh. No team has ever come back from three-old deficit. So even if we lose this one, we know that we can let Josh O.G. to be just just relax relax relax and they were able to close out the series without OG who's been like

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