Clippers Perpetual Chaos + Tanking is Good | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 72 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 week of basketball including a fight between the Hornets and Pistons, Clippers drama, new faces in new places and more. Then they go over their Good, Bad and WHAT??? Including tanking, Topic’s return, CP3’s retirement and more. In part 2, Law Murray of the Athletic joins to discuss the Clippers on and off court drama, what it’s been like covering them, and more. Then they finish with a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Law Murray
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam, brought to you by Amazon Prime on today's show. |
| 0:12.5 | We're back doing the good, the bad, the what? |
| 0:15.9 | It is Clippers Week. |
| 0:19.3 | It's Clippers Week. |
| 0:20.4 | Law Murray's here. |
| 0:21.6 | And trivia is back. |
| 0:24.0 | And someone else is back. |
| 0:25.3 | My good friend Alex Spears is back to tell us what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:30.0 | Andrew, the top story this week is that we got our first look at the new faces in new places after the NBA tread deadline last Thursday. |
| 0:39.1 | How about starting with James Harder? |
| 0:40.8 | It was now in Cleveland. |
| 0:41.8 | The Cavs with 3 in their first week with Hardin, including a win over Denver that featured |
| 0:47.1 | a game tying three by Hardin with 32 seconds left in the game. |
| 0:51.6 | The Cavs are now 10 and 1 in their last 11. |
| 0:55.3 | Sit only a game out of the three seed in the east, |
| 0:58.1 | where I, of course, predicted they would finish at the halfway point. |
| 1:01.4 | Could I have been more bolder, though? |
| 1:03.3 | Because the calves are only a game and a half back of the Celtics for the two seed. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's go. |
| 1:09.0 | And listen to this. |
| 1:10.4 | Bottom five schedule rest of the season per tank. |
| 1:13.3 | Ooh. |
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