Frank Isola whines that Kenny Beecham is taking over an hour of his SiriusXM NBA Radio show
Credit: Kenny Beecham on YouTube; The Ryen Russillo Show Rising NBA media personality Kenny Beecham is getting an hour-long show on SiriusXM NBA Radio starting this week, and his new colleague Frank Isola gave him quite the welcome. Isola, a longtime host on the station who also has contributed to the New York Daily News , ESPN, YES Network, and The Athletic across a long career covering the NBA, took Beecham’s debut to air grievances with his bosses, complaining about content creators over multiple minutes during a segment Monday morning on The Starting Lineup with co-host Brian Scalabrine. “ The Kenny Beecham Hour with Kenny Beecham , aptly named,” Isola said.
“God forbid we name it the Frank Isola-Brian Scalabrine show, but we’ve only been doing this show here for about how many years now? Fifteen. But you walk in, first day, they’re gonna name a show after you.
” Isola also took issue with the fact that the show’s producer, Warren Gross, gave him a promo for Beecham’s show that stated Beecham’s arrival would make Monday’s lineup on the station better, despite the fact that it is coming at the expense of Isola and Scalabrine. “He wanted me to [say] that Mondays just got better,” Isola said. “Which means that our show, they’ll be taking an hour off our show, and Warren wants me to [say] that Mondays just got better.
Because an hour of our show will be cut. ” At that point, Scalabrine suggested that Isola “just calm down. ” The entire conversation was clipped and posted to X by Beecham himself.
“This is weird,” Beecham wrote. “Dont hate the player, hate the game. ” This is weird.