NBA Awards: The Slammies + The Hornets Plan
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Slam and Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers bring you:
The Mid-Season Slammies.
Individual Awards (We each pick our own winners)
- Most Shocking Stat
- Fine, I Was Wrong Award (Pre-Season Take We Reluctantly Are Giving Up)
- Mid-Season 7th Man of the Year (Has to be outside top 6 in MPG)
- First Half League Pass Team Award
- Bold Prediction for the 2nd Half of the Season
Group Awards (We have to agree on a winner)
1) First-Half Major Awards (but you can't choose the favorites)
- MVP (no Embiid)
- COY (no Daisneault)
- MIP (no Maxey)
- ROY (no Wemby)
- DPOY (no Gobert)
- 6MOY (no Tim Hardaway Jr.)
- Master of Illusion Award (Team whose record is most deceiving)
- Second Half Run Award (Team currently around or below .500 that will make a 2nd half run)
- Play-Out to Play-In Award
Then in part 2 Richie Randall of the Buzz Beat Podcast joins us to discuss the Charlotte Hornets, their direction and more PLUS a fun edition of Andrew vs. The Beat.
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| 1:10.4 | always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 1:12.7 | Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. Well, Andrew, it all started last Friday night |
| 1:19.6 | with one of the biggest wins of the season. The Denver Nuggets went into Boston and beat the Celtics |
| 1:25.4 | 102 to 100 after Jason Tatum missed the potential game winner |
| 1:28.9 | with three seconds left. Why was it one of the biggest wins of the season? Because it was |
| 1:33.5 | Boston's first loss at home after starting the season with 20 straight wins at TD Garden. |
| 1:39.3 | All hope is not lost for the Celtics, however. For one, they still have the best record in the league |
| 1:42.9 | at 35 and 10. They actually followed up that loss to Denver with three straight wins, but also the all-time |
| 1:48.4 | record for home wins is 40, which is still possible. However, their next home game is a doozy |
| 1:55.2 | this Saturday against the Red Hot Los Angeles Clippers. On Saturday, the previously Red Hot Utah Jazz began to sputter a little bit. |
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