Are the Celtics done? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Anthony Slater to discuss the Western Conference Playoffs including the Warriors without Steph, what will happen to the Clippers and Rockets in the offseason, and if the Wolves are ready to win the West. Then they do a championship draft. Then they are joined by Jared Weiss to discuss the Celtics, what is wrong with the offense, and if they can adjust in time to beat the Knicks in this series. 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: Jared Weiss and Anthony Slater
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 on today's show. |
| 0:12.0 | We're talking to Anthony Slater about the Western Conference playoffs. |
| 0:15.0 | Jared Weiss about the Boston Celtics. |
| 0:17.5 | And then we'll do some trivia. |
| 0:19.9 | First, we're going to our friend Anthony Slater's national writer here at the |
| 0:24.6 | athletics. Slater, what's up? How are you all? |
| 0:28.3 | Great. So good. Great. I didn't just get off an airplane. So I think I'm doing a little bit |
| 0:32.9 | better than you are right now. Yeah, it's been, it's been some travel. That's what happens |
| 0:37.1 | when you take your |
| 0:37.7 | first round series to seven games and you're the road team and then you're the road team to start |
| 0:42.3 | the next series and you play in a Western conference that is geographically wild, dude, uh, |
| 0:48.3 | with the fact that in Minnesota, you know, I'm basically in Chicago, Detroit area, but it's West |
| 0:53.4 | playoffs. 830 tips too, as you guys know well there in Oklahoma City. Yeah, so, Detroit area. But it's West playoffs. 830 tips, too, as you guys know well, they're in Oklahoma City. Yeah, 830 tips are brutal. Yeah, getting out of the arena at like 3 a.m. Like, I'm at home. Like, I haven't left home. And it's like, it's been a week just because the tip is so late. I do not want to sound like a grouch. Honestly, I shouldn't because this is the first time I've been home since before Game 7 of the Houston series. Wow. Oh, wow. And by the way, I mean, like nobody cares about me, but this old Warriors team is doing the same thing I'm doing. Like that's what probably matters here. Yeah. So. Yeah, no kidding. |
| 1:28.6 | Let's start with the two teams that were knocked out of the playoffs this week. |
| 1:31.8 | First, the Clippers. |
| 1:33.0 | After pushing the Series of seven, the Clippers didn't show up in Denver and failed to make it out of the first round for the third straight season. |
| 1:40.0 | Do you think the Clippers should consider trying to pivot at this point or Or were there enough positives this season to feel good about running it back and extending Hardin? |
| 1:49.7 | Probably number one, enough positives. |
| 1:51.7 | And number two, just the reality of their ownership situation, which is good in so many ways. |
| 1:56.9 | Right? |
| 1:57.0 | He's like trying to pack ball arena in their elimination game. |
| 2:00.2 | Remember with all those Clippers fans? But he's just like he doesn't seem like he's going to to pack ball arena in their elimination game remember with all those clippers fans |
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