John Hollinger + Slammie Awards
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🗓️ 7 December 2024
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Saturday Slam N Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers hand out their quarterly Slammie Awards including: League Pass Team of the 1st Quarter, Say What? Stat of the 1st Quarter, They did what now? Award, "Now THIS is gonna be fun" award, and many more. Then in Part 2 John Hollinger of the Athletic joins the show to discuss some of his observations a quarter way through the season and discuss his new book the Basketball 100. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. The Beat.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: John Hollinger
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:48.4 | On today's show, we're talking top stories of the week, our quarterly slimy awards. |
| 0:53.2 | And John Hollinger stops by to talk about his new book, The Basketball 100, by everybody here at the Athletic. |
| 1:00.4 | It's a great, great book. |
| 1:01.5 | Suggests that you go pick it up now. |
| 1:03.8 | But to start with Al, tell me what the top stories in the NBA were this week. |
| 1:09.3 | Well, Andrew, the top story this week was the conclusion of |
| 1:13.0 | group play in the NBA Cup. We have our Elite 8, who will now move on to the elimination round. |
| 1:19.7 | In the east, we've got Orlando going to Milwaukee and Atlanta going to New York. In the |
| 1:26.0 | West, it's Dallas OKC and Golden State, Houston. |
| 1:29.5 | Bet MGM has the Thunder and Knicks tied for the best odds at plus 300, |
| 1:34.1 | but don't overlook my Atlanta Hawks. |
| 1:36.7 | Is that our Bet MGM line of the week? |
| 1:37.9 | Is that our bet MGM line of the week right there, Al? |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, and I'm going to give you my pick right now, Andrew, because the Atlanta Hawks have the worst |
| 1:45.5 | odds at plus 1800, but are exactly the type of weird team that could do this. |
| 1:50.8 | Just to get this far, the Hawks had to get out of a group that featured Boston and Cleveland, |
| 1:56.0 | two teams who have seven losses combined, three of which came at the hands of the mighty hawks. |
| 2:02.9 | So crazy. |
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