NBA Awards "The Slammies" + The Blazers Future | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 12 April 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball and bring back the Slammies, the made up NBA Awards we've done the last 4 seasons. Then they are joined by Mike Richman of Locked on Blazers to discuss the Portland Trailblazers and their fun unexpected season, Scoot Henderson's potential, the lottery and much more. 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: Mike Richman
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday slam and jam here on the athletic NBA daily on today's show. |
| 0:17.3 | We are bringing you the moments of the week. |
| 0:19.1 | The slammies are here once again. And Mike |
| 0:22.1 | Richmond of Lockdown Blazers joins us to talk about the Portland Trail Blazers. But to start, |
| 0:27.9 | Al, tell me about the top stories this week. Well, Andrew, the top story this week was the Denver |
| 0:35.5 | Nuggets, who made firing Taylor Jenkins with nine |
| 0:38.4 | games left in the season look pretty reasonable because on Tuesday, with only three games |
| 0:42.8 | left in the season, the Nuggets fired both head coach Michael Malone and GM Calvin Booth. |
| 0:48.5 | Now Malone ends his 10-season run with Denver as the franchise is winning as coach, |
| 0:53.2 | leading them to the 2023 championship. |
| 0:55.5 | Calvin Booth, he traded for KCP, he drafted Christian Brown. |
| 0:58.8 | Two important moves for the Nuggets title run, but things had gotten rockier since then, |
| 1:02.7 | with Booth and Malone budding heads over team building philosophy and roster decisions. |
| 1:07.8 | Things came to a head after the Nuggets lost four in a row and looked at risk to fall into the play-in. |
| 1:12.6 | David Adleman has taken over as the Nuggets head coach for the rest of the season and got his first win as head coach against Sacramento on Wednesday night. |
| 1:19.6 | Adelman started Jalen Pickett in the game and only played Russell Westbrook's 16 minutes, his lowest minute total since early December. |
| 1:28.3 | Reports suggest that Westbrook's playing time and preferential treatment had been one of the issues this season for the Nuggets. |
| 1:35.3 | Now, after a rocky week, the good news for Nuggets fans is that Jamal Murray is likely to return on Friday night for a huge matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies. |
| 1:49.0 | As of now, the Nuggets sit in fourth in the West, one game behind the Lakers, who also had an eventful week. |
| 1:50.1 | On Sunday, the Lakers got a dominant 126 to 99 win over the number one seed Thunder in |
| 1:55.5 | OKC, a game in which they made 15 three-pointers in the first half, tying a franchise record for most |
| 2:02.6 | threes in a half. Two days later, it was Groundhog Day because the Lakers were once again |
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