Ja Morant and Westbrook Blunders + Nets Need Lottery Luck | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, the most improved player, and our players, stats and quotes of the week. Then they are joined by Mike Smeltz to discuss the Brooklyn Nets and what prospects are worth building with, coach Jordi Fernandez and his potential, which players they should target in the draft, and more. 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: Mike Smeltz
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slaman Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:14.8 | On today's show, we're talking about the most approved player, our players of the week. |
| 0:18.6 | And Mike Smeltz joins the show to talk about the |
| 0:21.3 | Brooklyn Nets. Before we get to Al's top stories of the week, we're going to direct you guys to |
| 0:27.2 | our quick survey about your podcasting habits. Go to theathletic.com slash athletic slash survey 25. |
| 0:35.2 | Again, three lucky entries. We'll get $100 to Amazon on a voucher. |
| 0:40.0 | So you should go do that. |
| 0:41.3 | If you're a long-time listener or even a new one, we'd love to hear from you from all the |
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| 1:01.5 | So please go do that. |
| 1:02.8 | We would very much appreciate that with me today. |
| 1:06.1 | My good friend Alex Spears. |
| 1:07.1 | Alex, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, Andrew, the top story this week. Well, Andrew, |
| 1:10.9 | the top story this week |
| 1:11.9 | was the race to the finish line |
| 1:13.6 | in the Western Conference |
| 1:14.8 | with the fourth seed |
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