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🗓️ 9 March 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball 6th man of the year , and our players, stats and quotes of the week. Then they are joined by Law Murray of the Athletic to discuss the LA Clippers and the defensive fall off, Kawhi’s health, and what the expectations look like for the Clippers in the post season. 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: Law Murray
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamman Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:17.0 | We're talking six man of the year odds. |
| 0:19.7 | Our players of the week and LaMaree joins to talk about the Los Angeles Clippers. |
| 0:25.0 | But to start us off, Al, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 0:28.8 | Andrew, while the Dallas Mavericks are unlikely to be raising a championship title banner anytime soon, |
| 0:33.0 | they are closing in on an improbable run to win the title of most tortured fan base. While it's fun to talk about sports curses, Curse of the Bambino, curse of the Billy Goat, the Madden curse, if a team was actually cursed, would it look any different than what is currently happening to the Dallas Mavericks? This week's top story is that Mavs All-Star Kyrie Irving tore his ACL on a drive to the rim, |
| 0:58.2 | knocking him out for the rest of this season and likely a large chunk of next season as well. |
| 1:01.9 | In the very next game, a 137 to 107 loss to the Bucks, |
| 1:04.6 | the Mavs were only able to suit up eight players. |
| 1:07.3 | And to add insult to the many injuries in Dallas, |
| 1:16.6 | the Mavs franchise announced this week that season ticket prices would be going up next season, a continuation of their new strategy to do the dumbest possible thing they can think of. |
| 1:28.1 | In other injury news, the Sixers released a statement this week saying that the team and Joelle Mbid had consulted with specialists about his troublesome knee and determined that he is medically unable to play and will miss the rest of the season. The team and Embed are working on a treatment plan with the hope that he will be |
| 1:32.2 | able to return next season. The Sixers are in full tank mode having dropped 12 of their last 14. |
| 1:38.2 | You literally cannot escape bad news for the Mavericks because those two Sixers wins over that |
| 1:43.2 | stretch were a win over the Mavs and a win over Golden State, a game in which former Mav Quentin Grimes scored a career high 44 points. |
| 1:53.1 | Meanwhile, Caleb Martin has still not suited up for the Mavericks. |
| 1:56.9 | The Sixers currently have the same record as the Brooklyn Nets who have gotten their act together. |
| 2:01.1 | They've lost six in a row, despite almost beating the Warriors on Thursday night. |
| 2:05.1 | Hot on both of those teams heels, though, from the bottom of the standings are the Toronto Raptors, |
| 2:10.4 | only a game back of Philly and Brooklyn, and who, as we will discuss later, |
| 2:14.9 | are about to embark on the highest degree of difficulty tank job in NBA history. |
| 2:20.1 | Now, from the bottom of the East standings to the top, the Cleveland Cavaliers have now won 12 games in a row, |
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