Can the Wolves Upset the Nuggets? | Mega Playoff Preview
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers, and Dave DuFour break down the matchups in the first round of the Playoffs and make predictions about who wins each series.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Dave DuFour
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam live on YouTube. |
| 0:16.3 | Part of the Athletic TVA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:20.4 | We are previewing the playoffs. |
| 0:22.9 | We know every team that's in the playoffs now |
| 0:25.8 | because the play in, it's over. |
| 0:28.9 | See you later, Warriors. |
| 0:31.0 | Your 37 wins aren't impressing anybody anymore. |
| 0:34.5 | We want to send you home. |
| 0:35.9 | We won't talk about them anymore. |
| 0:39.0 | On today's show, Alex Spears is going to send you home. We don't talk about them anymore. On today's show, |
| 0:45.0 | Alex Spears is going to guide us through each series. We're going to do a little drafts. |
| 0:53.1 | And Dave DeFour is here to hang out with us. So, Al, tell us how we're going to preview the playoffs. |
| 0:57.0 | All right, folks, welcome to the slam and jam playoff preview. We're gonna do it a little differently than those other pods you've been listening to. |
| 1:02.0 | The way this is gonna work is Dave or Andrew, depending on the round, will draft a series. |
| 1:12.5 | Okay? |
| 1:13.4 | You'll draft your series. |
| 1:15.3 | By drafting a series, you get first dibs on predicting that series outcome. |
| 1:21.1 | And the other person cannot copy you. |
| 1:23.4 | There's one thing I hate. |
| 1:24.9 | It's listening to these playoff preview pods. |
| 1:26.7 | Someone says, I'm taking Nixon sick. |
| 1:28.5 | And the other person says, oh, I think I'm going to do that too. And they take the same thing. Who cares? I don't want to hear that. So this forces you to choose something different. Because you're usually waffling between one or two anyways. What's waffling? Yeah. So, and then also at the end of each series that we cover, |
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