6 Young Players on the Rise + Hawks keeping Trae Young? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 22 February 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, all star weekend aftermath, Defensive Player of the Year Odds, and 6 players the guys think are poised to make a leap in the last part of the season. Then they are joined by Lauren Williams of the Atlanta Journal Constitution to discuss the Atlanta Hawks and the future of Trae Young, how Risacher has performed, and the emergence of Dyson Daniels. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Lauren Williams
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | season season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to the Saturday Slamma Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:47.6 | On today's show, we're talking about the updated defensive player of the year odds, |
| 0:52.8 | the players that are making a pre-leap, and then Lauren |
| 0:55.5 | Williams joins the show to talk about the Atlanta Hawks. |
| 1:00.0 | But to start with Al, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 1:04.5 | Well, Andrew, our top story this week was All-Star Week in San Francisco in the Skills |
| 1:10.1 | Challenge. |
| 1:13.3 | One of the teams won. More importantly, |
| 1:20.0 | that little trickster Chris Paul tried to break the game by not even attempting to make a three-pointer and instead just throwing the balls haphazardly toward the basket. Thankfully, the league stepped in |
| 1:25.6 | to uphold the sanctity of the skills challenge, which again, |
| 1:28.9 | one of the teams won. |
| 1:30.5 | In the three-point contest, the big question was whether Damien Lillard with three-peat |
| 1:35.3 | as champ, but he did not. |
| 1:37.3 | Instead, it was Tyler Hero in his first All-Star game, who won the three-point contest |
| 1:41.8 | defeating Darius Garland and Buddy Healed in the final. |
| 1:45.1 | We would see a three-peat on Saturday, however, as Mack McClung did four pretty cool dunks |
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