Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam, hosted by Andrew Schlicht with Alex Spears.

How about we can just watch basketball?

That's a man's jam!

I like that idea.

Live from Oklahoma.

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With questions and participants from all around the world.

Anthony Edwards.

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Whether you're flipping your flapjacks, tending to your yard, or just sipping your coffee, get ready, sit back, relax. It's the Saturday Slam and Jam. Back here's, I miss this shot. I'll walk away. I'm still a chump. Here's Andrew. Welcome to the Slam and jam here on The Athletic NBA show.

Hey, please go check out all the good work going on at The Athletic.

Our guy Sam Amick wrote a really good piece about inside the meeting that sealed Clay Thompson's exit and why he chose Dallas over LA.

It's phenomenal.

We always have our free agent live blog where we have updates going on that

not only tells you what happened, but a little bit of analysis too. It's phenomenal. And hey,

our guy Fred Katz wrote a piece about how the Knicks avoided the first apron and being

hard capped. You should go check that out right now. Today we are doing a contender

draft. And with me to do the contender draft is my good friend Fred Katz. Fred, what's up?

Oh, nothing. Just losing my brain over aprons. It's it isn't it is a new world. It is a new world

I feel like I'm Bobby Flee. I feel like I'm Bobby Flee. I'm just losing my brain over aprons. You want to hear a fun fact? Did you know for way too longer than I'm proud of? I thought Bobby Flae's name was Bobby F-L-A. No. And it was like, it was like F-I-L-E-T. I thought it was Bobby F-L-A. And I thought it was like a professional name. Like I thought it was like, it was like, F-I-L-E-T. I thought it was Bobby Filet. And I thought it was like a professional name.

Like, I thought it was like when they referred to Don Mattingly.

I thought I was like, yeah, that was stage name.

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