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.”

Later in the clip, Isola questioned whether Beecham had the notoriety to even be deserving of his own 60-minute show.

“Nationally, who’s got a bigger name: Brian Scalabrine or Kevin Beecham? Kenny Beecham,” Isola said, remembering the name of the man he was skewering.

Scalabrine responded that Beecham was a bigger name. While Isola may not have realized the position he was putting Scalabrine in, the former Boston Celtics forward counts Beecham as a colleague at NBC Sports.

Then, Isola claimed that not only was Scalabrine bigger than Beecham, but so was Isola himself.