Jokic era over? + Big Changes coming for the Blazers | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. Ben Golliver joins the show to discuss the Playoffs including what is happening to the Celtics and how the Sixers have gained ground against them, are the Nuggets completely cooked?, and much more. Then Ben helps Andrew and Alex draft the best teams left in the Playoffs and which teams can win the title… plus… TRIVIA.
Then after the break Sean Highken joins to discuss the Blazers, their first round series with the Spurs, and how their team could change this summer.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Ben Golliver and Sean Highken
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:13.3 | Van Oliver is stopping by to talk about the NBA playoffs and what in the world just happened to the Denver Nuggets. |
| 0:22.3 | And then Sean Hiken is going to join to talk about what's happening with the Blazers this summer. |
| 0:27.1 | Feels like a lot's going to happen with me. |
| 0:29.3 | As always, my good friend Alex Spears, Alex, what's up? |
| 0:32.4 | What's up, Andrew? |
| 0:34.1 | And joining us from Ben Gulliver.substack.com and also the greatest of all talk podcast, Ben Goliver, Ben, |
| 0:43.0 | thanks for joining. I don't get a what's up too. Come on, man. |
| 0:46.7 | What's up? |
| 0:51.3 | Man, I'm just trying to wrap my head. So we're recording this Thursday night, late, after all the games. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything that's happening here. |
| 1:01.9 | So let's talk Celtics Sixers first. |
| 1:05.1 | After getting down 3-1, the Sixers have now pushed the Celtics to an unimaginable |
| 1:10.6 | seventh game after dominating |
| 1:13.1 | game six in Philly. In your opinion, what are some of the biggest factors that have allowed |
| 1:17.5 | Philly to climb back into the series? Well, first things first, I consider myself like a 99th |
| 1:24.3 | percentile Sixers skeptics. So I'm as shocked as anyone is to be here. Honestly, Andrew, you look like you had a concussion like Wembe because of this Denver Nuggets results. So I really appreciate you trying to power through this, but we're going to get you tested, all right? In terms of the factors, I see a few different things. First of all, obviously, Emb. B.D. got the rust off. They look terrible |
| 1:44.3 | when he first came back. And now they're really looking seamless. Offensively, I felt like the balance between him, Maxi, Paul, George, and V.J. Edgecom was like exactly how you would want it if you're Philly. They actually felt like a team with everybody out there. And it didn't I feel like everyone's like, you know, trying to work around MBE or it's MBEed show. |
| 2:01.7 | It was just kind of seamless and very team oriented. |
| 2:04.1 | That's a big part. everybody out there. It didn't feel like everyone's like, you know, trying to work around M-Beed or it's |
| 2:00.8 | an M-Beed show. It was just kind of seamless and very team-oriented. That's a big part of it. Obviously, Boston can't hit shots. That's a huge part of it, too. They live and die by the three more than basically anybody right now they're dying. I also look at this idea about Maxie, though. They cannot keep this guy out of the paint. |
| 2:16.9 | They can't keep him in front of them. |
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