NBA Finals Game 7 Preview with Caitlin Cooper and Sam Amick | Slam N Jam
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Sam Amick to discuss the NBA Finals, Haliburton’s injury, the Lakers sale, KD trades and much more. In part 2 Caitlin Cooper of Basketball She Wrote joins to discuss Game 7, potential adjustments, and more. Then they play a fun edition of Andrew vs the Beat.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Sam Amick and Caitlin Cooper
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. |
| 0:16.3 | We're talking to Caitlin Cooper about the NBA Finals, Game 7. |
| 0:20.7 | And we are talking to my good friend sam |
| 0:23.5 | amic about a little bit of finals but then some offseason stuff kevin durant rumors is that |
| 0:29.4 | actually going to happen memphis you know making moves uh with me as always is my good |
| 0:36.1 | friend alex spears and Sam Amick joins us. |
| 0:40.3 | Sam, where in the world is Sam Amick? |
| 0:43.6 | I'll let you guess, Andrew. |
| 0:45.2 | It's only one or two places these past couple weeks. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm still in Indianapolis. |
| 0:50.6 | No, I did the media charter plane, which the good news is it's a direct flight. |
| 0:58.3 | The bad news is it's not always that conducive to sports rider's schedule. |
| 1:03.6 | So late night, early morning, forgive the casino voice that's coming your way, |
| 1:10.7 | which, by the way, is not as good as I'm digging your Game 7 voice. |
| 1:15.8 | I think we need more of that Game 7 voice. |
| 1:20.1 | I guess we're all in the same city now, which is that's quite rare. |
| 1:25.4 | I guess we could have just done this here at down to dunk studios |
| 1:28.0 | here in person by the hotel yes yeah um sam you you've been covering the finals you've been at all these |
| 1:36.6 | games we have game seven on sunday in okoma city uh what's your thought on where everything stands? Pretty shocked, like a lot of people, |
| 1:48.4 | and weirdly and unexpectedly kind of stoked from a coverage standpoint. As you guys know, as you guys |
| 1:57.3 | know, it's like we don't, you know, I'm not looking, I don't root for teams. |
| 2:01.9 | I root for stories. |
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