NBA Draft Check in with Sam Vecenie | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Sam Vecenie of the Athletic and the Game Theory Podcast to discuss the 2026 NBA Draft. Is Darryn Peterson as good as everyone says? Why is Cam Boozer off to an awesome and also strange start? Is AJ Dybantsa a can’t miss prospect at 3, or does he have too many holes in his game? Who else will break into the top 5 + a lightning round of questions.Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Sam Vecenie
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamma Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:11.5 | We're talking to Sam Vassini about the 2026 NBA draft. |
| 0:16.8 | We're just going to pepper him with so many questions. |
| 0:19.2 | It's going to be amazing. |
| 0:20.2 | And then we'll finish with some trivia with me. |
| 0:23.3 | As always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:25.5 | Alex, what's up? |
| 0:26.8 | Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 0:28.4 | Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. |
| 0:30.4 | This is publishing on Friday. |
| 0:32.2 | So we're recording earlier in the week, but publishing Friday. |
| 0:34.6 | So if you're maybe driving or flying somewhere, you get to listen to |
| 0:40.5 | some NBA draft talk with the best in the biz. Sam Vassini, Sam, thanks for coming on Slamma Jam. |
| 0:46.9 | Andrew, I'm so happy to be here. I'm so thrilled. We had a great conversation to start this |
| 0:53.3 | episode offline. We did. I am just so, so thrilled and so excited. I just got done talking for two hours for my show. And not even a second of that has left me not energized because of the energy that particularly Al has brought |
| 1:12.9 | to the show as opposed to what Andrew's bringing. That's right. Let's start with the top three |
| 1:21.1 | prospects. We haven't gotten to see much of Darren Peterson yet due to a hamstring injury. He was |
| 1:26.8 | number one in your most recent mock draft and is billed as a do-it-all guard |
| 1:31.3 | who can play on ball, off ball. |
| 1:33.8 | How does he currently project as a playmaker? |
| 1:36.8 | And would you expect him to be like a primary playmaker at some point in the future? |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, I do. |
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