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🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht is joined by Sam Vecenie to break down the 2024 NBA draft. Is the draft as bad as some say? What could Alex Sarr bring to the Hawks? Who should the Hawks trade? That and much more about a bunch of different prospects.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam, hosted by Andrew Schlicht with Alex Spears. |
| 0:09.1 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:10.8 | That's a man's jam! |
| 0:12.0 | I like that idea. |
| 0:13.0 | Live from Oklahoma. |
| 0:14.4 | Click, click. |
| 0:15.1 | With questions and participants from all around the world. |
| 0:18.0 | Anthony Edwards. |
| 0:19.2 | Put that on a poster. |
| 0:20.7 | 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 is, 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, go to theath and jam here on the athletic NBA show hey go to the |
| 0:39.9 | athletic dot com slash NBA show and get the athletic for a discounted rate it's a great time there's a |
| 0:45.1 | lot going on we got the NBA playoffs in full swing we got conference finals coming up there was a |
| 0:51.1 | really nice piece from Anthony Slater about Shegildes-Alexander that I think everybody |
| 0:56.2 | should go read. It's a very good piece. There's always good stuff from our guy Sam Vassini. |
| 1:01.9 | Just a quick note, we will not be discussing the big time blowout from the Minnesota Timberwells |
| 1:09.4 | and Dipper Nuggets where they beat them 115 to 70. 70 points? What year is this? 70? That's insane. Huge credit to the |
| 1:19.1 | giant response from the Timberwolves that are not sure that all of us saw coming. |
| 1:24.1 | But if you want more context for that game, go check out the No Dunks crew. We'll be |
| 1:28.4 | breaking that down for you guys tomorrow. But on this episode, it's time to bring in Sam Vassini, |
| 1:33.2 | who's going to give us some really good context for all these players that will suddenly |
| 1:37.7 | become NBA players over the summer. Sam, thanks for coming on. How's it going? |
| 1:43.0 | I'm doing well. How are you, Andrew? I'm doing great. |
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