#279: 2024 NBA Draft (post Summer League)

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4.9 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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With the knowledge of summer league, Ahmed Jama of Swish Theory joins to discuss the 2024 NBA draft. Are there hidden stars in this class? Are the top picks ready to play right away? And who, if anyone, stood out after Summer League in Vegas? Follow Ahmed @slipthescreen. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to another episode. It is the draft episode of 2024. I know what you're thinking. It's like a month after the draft. The draft, you're supposed to do this after the draft just happened. I say no. I say today we are
0:24.2	turning things on its head because we were waiting for Summer League. We couldn't
0:28.9	this year for all kinds of reasons do a draft episode right after the night of the draft.
0:34.6	It's kind of a weird draft year.
0:36.4	Anyway, especially coming off a year with like Victor Wembinama and
0:40.9	Scoot Henderson and all the hype about these players in the G League and
0:44.4	games being streamed on the NBA app. So I wanted to take some time to watch
0:49.4	Summer League and I also wanted to give our guest, the first time guest on this show.
0:53.8	We're hoping we can continue the streak of draft people,
0:57.4	getting hired into the NBA.
1:00.1	He is Ahmed Jama.
1:01.4	Ahmed, how you doing?
1:02.2	Thanks for coming on.
1:03.6	Doing great, yeah.
1:04.9	Just winding down with some summer league.
1:06.8	It's kind of a basketball-filled summer,
1:10.4	it's a little non-typable, you know,
1:12.0	like gearing up for the next class and watching the Olympics and
1:14.8	summer league so yeah it's been a lot of fun there's a lot there's a lot of basketball
1:18.0	going on the Olympics that's another podcast we're not going to mention the Olympics
1:22.3	in this podcast we are we will be back next week
1:25.2	programming note if you're following along with our Best of Pace and Space series
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