Contender Draft + Playoff Preview | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of headlines in the NBA, and an update on the surprise teams and post All Star Break Leap players. Then they are joined by Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports to discuss the NBA Playoffs, matchups they like, and then the guys do a contender draft taking the teams they think are most likely to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy at the end of the season.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: Dan Devine
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. |
| 0:15.7 | We're going to give an update on the surprise teams. |
| 0:18.5 | Dan Devine of Yahoo Sports stops byide to discuss the playoffs and we do a |
| 0:22.0 | contender draft. But before we get to all of that, Alex, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 0:28.7 | Well, Andrew, our top story this week was the end of the 24, 25 regular season. The Phoenix Suns, |
| 0:35.0 | owners of the league's highest payroll, missed the play in completely, |
| 0:38.7 | finishing tied with the Portland Trailblazers at 36 and 46. In response, the Sons quickly |
| 0:44.6 | moved to fire coach Mike Boodenholzer, who was only hired last summer. Now, assuming |
| 0:49.5 | Devin Bucker is still a son next season, their next coach will be his eighth head coach in 11 NBA seasons. |
| 0:56.8 | Matt Isbia met with the media this week and was defiant, |
| 0:59.7 | promising that the sons would win championships, |
| 1:03.1 | quote, with an S at the end. |
| 1:06.9 | Another word with an S at the end is PICS, |
| 1:09.5 | which the sons do not have until I'm like 45. |
| 1:13.3 | The expectation is that Kevin Durant will be traded this summer. |
| 1:17.1 | And while many have assumed Houston would be a likely suitor, Mark Stein reported this week that a KD trade would be unlikely for the Rockets because he does not fit with the team's timeline. |
| 1:25.8 | Now, it took all the way until Game 82 to decide who would finish the season with the worst record. |
| 1:30.3 | And this year's reverse champion was the Utah Jazz, who finished with 17 wins, only three more than last year's Pistons team. |
| 1:39.3 | The Jazz secured the worst record after the Wizards got a dramatic win in the final game of the season, |
| 1:45.7 | a 119 to 118 win in Miami that ended on an impossible Bubbington floater at the buzzer. |
| 1:52.7 | The Wizards finished the season with an average scoring margin of minus 12.4. |
| 1:57.8 | That is third worst in NBA history behind only the seven-win Bobcats and the 92-93 Dallas |
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