2025 NBA Draft Deep Dive with Sam Vecenie | Slam N Jam
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Sam Vecenie of the Athletic to discuss the NBA Draft, what the Pelicans and Nets are doing, who from this class will be an All Star or fringe All Star and so much more.
Then the guys have Sam sort the 2024 and 2025 drafts into categories of All Star, Starter, Role Player and Out of the league with the lottery for each draft. They finish the show with a fun edition of Andrew vs. The Beat.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Sam Vecenie
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:14.9 | On today's show, we're recapping the NBA draft. |
| 0:17.9 | We're going to do draft awards. |
| 0:19.5 | We're going to play a little draft game. |
| 0:21.4 | And we're doing some trivia with me, as always, |
| 0:24.8 | is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:27.2 | Alex, what's up? |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, Andrew. |
| 0:29.9 | Hi, Alex. |
| 0:30.8 | And also with us, |
| 0:33.1 | the only person that I would want to recap the NBA draft with, |
| 0:36.7 | Sam Vecini of the athletic and the |
| 0:38.6 | game theory podcast. Sam, how's it going? Well, I have live streamed for seven hours now over |
| 0:47.9 | the course of the last two days, gone through all 60 or no, I'm sorry, 59 picks that have been made. |
| 0:55.7 | And, you know, we only had one. |
| 0:57.9 | It was off my top 100 board. |
| 0:59.3 | Shout out the Indiana Pacers. |
| 1:00.8 | I'll try again next year with Taylon Peter. |
| 1:05.6 | So heading into the draft, many were expecting that Ace Bailey was going to fall to one of his desired |
| 1:11.2 | destinations from the six to eight range. Instead, it was the Utah Jazz that grabbed him at |
| 1:17.2 | five. There's been a lot of discussion, this draft cycle, about what situations may be best for |
| 1:22.4 | ACE's continued development. What do you think about him ending up in Utah? |
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