NBA Draft Prep w Sam Vecenie | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They are joined by Sam Vecenie of the Athletic and the Game Theory Podcast. They discuss 8 questions about the NBA Draft including thoughts on the combine, if the Wizards should trade down, ranking the glut of guards and much more. Then they do a lightning round of questions on the draft. Finally… they finish with some trivia in our weekly show Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Sam Vecenie
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slam and Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:11.3 | On today's show, we're talking about the NBA draft. |
| 0:15.3 | We're bringing up players like Braden Burrys, Lacksel Lendabor, Karim Lopez, and other really more famous players than that. But those are just some good names that I like to bring into the NBA sphere. I'm your host, Andrew Schlecht, with me. It's my good friend Alex Spears. Alex, what's up? What's up, Andrew? I wish you would use that voice more. I think the show would do better. |
| 0:39.1 | You like that voice? |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.9 | I think we'd bring in a new audience. |
| 0:43.1 | What would that audience be? |
| 0:44.3 | Was it like a cross between like old-timey newsman, but also like, I don't even know what that was? |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.3 | But I appreciate it. It was excellent. It's just fun, fun to say names in that voice. You should just try it around your house. And that other voice that you heard is our friend Sam Vasini here to educate us about the NBA draft. We had the lottery happen. And now you get to learn who are these guys. And that's |
| 1:11.1 | what we're going to do today. Sam, thanks for joining us. How's it going, guys? It's good to be here. |
| 1:15.7 | I am very, very happy to talk about the NBA draft with you. And I'm very happy to be past the |
| 1:21.3 | combine where there are way too many takes flying around after a set of four days that in the grand scheme of things mean very little when it comes to the NBA. |
| 1:33.5 | So we've already gotten a report from Mark Spears that the Utah Jazz have reached out to the Wizards about possibly moving up with the expectation that they'd be interested in taking |
| 1:45.5 | AJ DeBanza. Is it DeBanza? DeBanza. Help us with the pronunciation first. Uh, I've been going |
| 1:52.4 | with DeBanza. Uh, I think it's DeBanza. Honestly. Uh, I just, you know, throw my Northeast on it, |
| 1:59.8 | and I go from there. |
| 2:01.7 | Okay, okay. |
| 2:03.5 | So if you were Washington, what would it take for you to consider moving down a spot? |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah, I think that, like, jazz fans aren't going to like to hear this, to be honest with you. |
| 2:14.7 | But to me, it's probably, like like Ace Bailey and number two for number one and like something small. |
| 2:23.8 | We know that the Washington Wizards really liked Ace Bailey last year. |
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