Welcome to the Slam and Jam here on the NBA Daily. On today's show, we're recapping week one, telling you what our favorite things are from the week and our guy Esper Henney joins to give us some big picture thoughts on some small sample sizes.

With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears.

Alex, tell me about these top stories this week.

Well, Andrew, the big story this week was, of course, the return of basketball and the return

of the Boston Celtics.

Last year's champs did not miss a beat this week, starting off 2 and 0 on the season with

dominant wins against the Knicks and the Wizards.

In the game against the Knicks, the Celtics hit 29 three-pointers tying a record set by the Milwaukee

Bucks. Jason Tatum is on fire to start the season. He's hit 11 of his first 22, three-point

attempts through two games. Are the Celtics poised to be the first back-to-back champ since the

KD Warriors? Or are there other realistic challenges? Perhaps the Oklahoma City Thunder,

who started off their season with an impressive 102 to 87 win over the Nuggets in Denver.

Since Nikolokic has been a nugget,

Denver has failed to score 88 points at home in only 10 games,

and not once since 2021.

Now the story of the game was Chet Holmgren.

He outplayed Yokic.

He put up in his absurd line, 25, 9, and 5, 2 steals, 4 blocks.

The statement win came despite OKC shooting 22% from 3 and despite OKC being down

three of their big men, including their

newest free agent signing Isaiah Hartenstein.

Hartnstein got a big bag this summer, Andrew, but it wasn't quite as big as some of the

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