Lakers in Trouble? + Bulls Need to Pick a Direction | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA basketball, leaders in spot ups, isos and more, Sengun is fearless, and some weirdness around the NBA Draft. Then the guys are joined by Joel Lorenzi of the Athletic to discuss the Bulls, their direction at the trade deadline, Billy Donovan’s influence and more. Then the gang play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
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Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Joel Lorenzi
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 1:05.5 | Welcome to the Saturday slam and jam brought to you by Amazon Prime. |
| 1:10.2 | On today's show, we're going to do our good, bad, and what? |
| 1:15.3 | We're going to talk about the Chicago Bulls. |
| 1:18.4 | Had a pretty nice win this week. |
| 1:20.5 | And we are also going to do some trivia. |
| 1:23.1 | But before we get to all that, Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 1:29.4 | Andrew, the top story this week was a season-changing injury for the Golden State Warriors. |
| 1:35.3 | In a game against the Miami Heat, Jimmy Butler came down awkwardly on his right leg and tore his ACL, |
| 1:40.7 | which will end his season and effectively end the Warriors season unless they are able to |
| 1:45.2 | conjure up some magic at the trade deadline. |
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