2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Slam N Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the 2025 NBA Draft with Sam Vecenie of the Athletic. They deep dive on Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and which player is most likely to go number 3? How many tier 1 players are in this draft and a lengthy discussion on the depth of the draft. They then transition to a discussion about the 2024 rookie class and hand out awards as a way to talk about 9 rookies who are standing out above (or below) the rest. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer, this time a trivia show based on the 2024 class.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Sam Vecenie
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' jam. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck with me. |
| 0:16.4 | As always, Alex Spears today with a special episode. |
| 0:18.7 | We are talking about the 2025 NBA draft. |
| 0:23.1 | And we're talking about the current rookie class. |
| 0:26.2 | And there's nobody better to talk about both of those things with than our guy, |
| 0:31.4 | Sam Vassini. |
| 0:32.1 | Sam. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome back to the slam and jam. |
| 0:36.0 | Truly, there is no show I enjoy doing more than this one. |
| 0:40.4 | It is fun. |
| 0:42.0 | I get my ass kicked in trivia every time. |
| 0:45.5 | And it's just such an enjoyable, enjoyable experience. |
| 0:48.8 | So I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:50.3 | And I'm glad to get to chat with you. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | So we do these episodes a little differently because we just need to talk to Sam. |
| 0:55.8 | We just need to pick his brain for the entire hour plus. |
| 0:59.7 | So buckle up. |
| 1:01.5 | So Sam, every year at the draft lottery, there's a fan base that feels like they miss the top |
| 1:08.4 | tier of prospects by one spot. |
| 1:10.4 | This year, will that be the same team that gets the number three pick? Or do you? they missed the top tier of prospects by one spot this year. |
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