76ers in Trouble? + Hot Hornets and Westbrook Drama | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They discuss the week of basketball plus their Good, Bad, and What including the Hornets insane lineup, Westbrook drama, Reed Sheppard, and the 76ers in the play in? In part 2, Trill Bro Dude of the You Know Ball podcast joins to discuss the 76ers, how they are doing with Embiid, if Maxey can be a number 1 guy and why Sixers fans boo’d Morey in New Orleans. Then they finish with a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Trill Bro Dude
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Carl Finocchiaro
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic MBA Daily, brought to you by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:13.2 | On today's show, we're going to bring you our good bed and what of this week. |
| 0:19.4 | We're talking about the Philadelphia 76ers, so we'll do that with our |
| 0:23.8 | guy Trill, bro, dude, and then we will do some Sixers trivia. But before we get to any of that, |
| 0:30.6 | Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. Andrew, the top story this week is the Charlotte |
| 0:37.2 | Hornets who are on an historic winning streak. Now, the top story this week is the Charlotte Hornets who are on an historic winning |
| 0:40.0 | streak. Now, the number of games might not be historic. They've won six in a row, which is the |
| 0:44.0 | longest winning streak in the league, but it's the way they've done it that is so unique. During |
| 0:48.1 | this six-game winning streak, the Hornets have won every game by at least 15 points. The last team to do that was the 1718 Golden State Warriors, |
| 0:57.6 | who you may remember for having every good player on their team. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, now it's the Hornets. |
| 1:03.9 | This run of dominance, it was mostly against tanking teams, to be fair, |
| 1:07.9 | but Charles' most recent win was one of their best of the season, |
| 1:11.2 | a 118 to 89 domination of the Celtics in Boston. The win pushed Charlotte over 500 for the |
| 1:18.1 | first time since they were two and one on October 27th. They have moved into the ninth spot in the |
| 1:23.4 | east, only two and a half games back of the Sixers in sixth. Meanwhile, their point differential is fifth best in the east. Elsewhere in the East, only two and a half games back of the Sixers and sixth. Meanwhile, their point |
| 1:27.5 | differential is fifth best in the East. Elsewhere in the East, the Knicks got one of their |
| 1:32.7 | best wins of the season as well as they put an end to the Spurs 11-game winning streak, beating |
| 1:38.1 | them at MSG. The Knicks held the Spurs to only 89 points, which is San Antonio's lowest total of the season. |
| 1:46.2 | By the way, go check out the Knicks' defense over this recent stretch. |
| 1:49.5 | It's for real. |
| 1:49.9 | Really good. |
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