Durant Trade Destinations + West Risers | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 1 March 2025
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, West Risers like the Lakers and Warriors, and our players, stats and quotes of the week. Then they are joined by Lauren Williams of the Atlanta Journal Constitution to discuss the Atlanta Hawks and the future of Trae Young, how Risacher has performed, and the emergence of Dyson Daniels. 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: Sam Cooper
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 1:17.6 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. On today's show, we're talking Western Conference Rizers, our players of the week, and then Sam Cooper joins to talk about the lowly Phoenix Suns sons but to start off al tell me about the top |
| 1:29.9 | stories this week well andrew the top story this week was the first matchup between |
| 1:35.7 | lucca and the mavericks since the worst trade in NBA history was made nico harrison was in |
| 1:40.6 | attendance and was showered with love from lakers fans who chanted thank you, Nico, |
| 1:45.1 | several times during the game. Lucas started off the game hot and ended with a triple double |
| 1:49.6 | 1915 and 12 in the 107 to 99 win. While it was a good win for the Lakers, this week also saw |
| 1:55.8 | them get arguably their most impressive win of the season, a 123 to 100 win over a healthy Nuggets team in Denver. |
| 2:03.2 | It was Luca's best game yet as a Laker, scoring 32 points to go along with 10 rebounds and |
| 2:08.0 | seven assists. The Lakers have won four in a row and are 36 and 21 only a game back of the Nuggets |
| 2:14.5 | for third in the West. Now, it wasn't a great week for the Nuggets who |
| 2:18.2 | also lost to the Bucks on Thursday. The Bucks have started to find their footing after making |
| 2:22.9 | the mid-season trade for Kyle Kuzma. Since Couss has started averaging 30 plus minutes a night, |
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