NBA Contender Draft | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 3 May 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Mike Zakarian to discuss questions surrounding East teams that remain in the Playoffs and if the Cavs can win it all. They also discuss the eliminated teams including which future would you rather have: Magic or Pistons? Mike then joins the guys in doing their weekly Contender Draft, before discussing the Western Conference Playoffs. 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 Zakarian
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin'jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:15.1 | We're talking to Mike Sikarian about the NBA playoffs. |
| 0:17.8 | We'll do another championship draft and we'll be doing some NBA playoff |
| 0:22.8 | trivia with me as always is my good friend Alex Spears and joining us from NBA Bit on YouTube |
| 0:29.5 | is my friend Mike Zakarian. Mike, what's up? Hey guys. How we doing? We enjoying tonight's NBA action. |
| 0:37.3 | It was it was really fun i like having the |
| 0:41.8 | two games uh i really enjoy having the two games which is very fun we are recording this late |
| 0:47.6 | late thursday so when you're listening to this on saturday you're confused about the two games |
| 0:53.0 | that i'm talking about so there's just one game on on fr, you're confused about the two games that I'm talking about. |
| 0:55.9 | So there's just one game on Friday. |
| 0:57.5 | Not talking about that, |
| 1:01.8 | but we are going to talk about the Eastern Conference to start with. |
| 1:06.0 | And so the second round of the Eastern Conference is set. |
| 1:11.0 | Most people are already looking ahead to a Cavs Celtics conference finals, |
| 1:14.1 | but I want to ask you the same question about both series. |
| 1:16.3 | An upset feels unlikely, |
| 1:20.0 | but what would need to happen for the Pacers and Knicks to make these long series? |
| 1:23.6 | The Drew Holiday injury kind of lingering out there where I don't feel like we've gotten an update since that series is wrapped up with Orlando. |
| 1:32.6 | I feel like that could actually cause some issues for Boston and Jalen Brown already kind of, you know, limping around a little bit and then lost a finger, I think halfway through that series as well. |
| 1:43.9 | So I think that could be something. |
| 1:45.8 | But I actually like the Pacers. |
| 1:47.0 | I think Halliburton, the way that you saw, even though, I mean, clearly they just took care of business against Miami, right? |
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