Mid Season Slammies + Will the Bucks Finally Trade Giannis? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA basketball, and hand our their mid season awards, the Slammies, a different kind of awards show aimed at pointing out some of the fun and unusual things going on around the NBA. After a break Eric Nehm of the Athletic joins to discuss the Bucks and how their season has gone so poorly, if Doc Rivers could be on the hot seat, if Giannis would sign an extension 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: Eric Nehm
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam, presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:11.1 | On today's show, we're doing mid-season slammy. |
| 0:15.7 | Eric Name joins to talk about the saddest team in basketball, the Milwaukee box. |
| 0:22.5 | And then we will finish with some trivia. |
| 0:25.8 | But before we get to all that, Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week? |
| 0:31.7 | Andrew, the top story this week was the Oklahoma City Thunder, |
| 0:35.9 | finally beating some good teams, those frauds. |
| 0:39.3 | First, fourth time was the charm as the Thunder finally looked normal against the Spurs, |
| 0:45.0 | getting their best win of the season, beating San Antonio 119 to 98. |
| 0:49.4 | SGA had 34-5 and 5 in the game with four blocks, including a blocked lob intended for Wembe in the |
| 0:57.3 | critical third quarter. After beating the Spurs, Thunder got their second best win of the season, |
| 1:01.9 | a similarly dominant 11-191-91 win over the Rockets in Houston. It appears OKC has finally |
| 1:07.8 | weathered their mid-season slump and are now on a league-leading five-game |
| 1:12.0 | winning streak. |
| 1:12.9 | The only other team to have won eight of their last 10, the Los Angeles Clippers, of course, |
| 1:18.7 | who have now won 11 of their last 13. |
| 1:21.4 | The Clippers are now tied in the standings with the Memphis Grizzlies, who sit in the 10th spot, |
| 1:26.2 | and who this week traveled to Berlin for |
| 1:28.9 | the first ever regular season NBA game in Germany. The German crowd got a pretty good game |
| 1:34.3 | as this one was close throughout featured one of the dunks of the year with the game tied at |
| 1:38.6 | 107 only two and a half minutes left. Anthony Black took a pass in transition, dunked over four of the five |
| 1:45.3 | Grizzlies who were on the court at the time. And I promise that's not hyperbole. Four grizzlies |
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