Can the Thunder Repeat? + Post All Star Break Leap Team | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They discuss the All Star Weekend, the Sixers, the success of the Pistons, and their pre-leap players. Then after the break they are joined by Rylan Stiles of the Locked on Thunder Podcast and OKC Dream Team to discuss the Thunder’s season, their injuries, leaps from Cason Wallace and Isaiah Joe and much more. Then they finish with a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Rylan Stiles
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamat Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily's YouTube feed. |
| 0:13.0 | You got to watch us on YouTube. |
| 0:14.6 | We're here on YouTube. |
| 0:15.8 | It's a great production. |
| 0:16.8 | We'd love to have you here. |
| 0:18.0 | We're brought to you by Amazon Prime on today's show. |
| 0:21.7 | We are going to do the good, the bat, and the what of this week, and we're going to try to avoid talking about tanking during that. |
| 0:29.0 | We're also going to have my good friend Rylan Stiles on the show to talk about the Thunder, and then we're going to do some Thunder trivia. |
| 0:35.5 | But before all of that, Al, tell us what happened in the NBA this week. Andrew, I'm going to do some thunder trivia. But before all of that, Al, tell us what happened in the NBA |
| 0:39.3 | this week. Andrew, our top story this week is that the All-Star game is good now. In one of |
| 0:47.5 | the biggest twists of the season, the new format for the All-Star game appeared to work. |
| 0:53.1 | Ignited by Victor Wemnon Yamma's energy in the first game, |
| 0:57.4 | each of the first three games was close, |
| 0:59.8 | came down to clutch shots from Scotty Barnes, De Aaron Fox, and Quay Leonard. |
| 1:04.5 | In the third game, Kauai, on an absolute heater. |
| 1:08.0 | He scored 31 in just 12 minutes, |
| 1:13.3 | and not against typical All-Star defense. |
| 1:16.5 | It was legitimately cool and fun. |
| 1:22.4 | The final game, now that was a bit of a snoozer as the old man U.S. team got run out of the gym by the Young Guns and All-Star MVP, Anthony Edwards, 4721. |
| 1:27.5 | But all in all, I would say best All-Star game I can remember in a long time. |
| 1:32.4 | And credit to the league for preventing a week's worth of the worst NBA pods imaginable. |
| 1:38.0 | You thought endless segments about fixing tanking was bad. |
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