NBA Lottery Hate Draft + Playoff Round Up | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 85 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 Bryce Simon of the Game Theory Podcast and the Pistons Pulse Podcast. They discuss each playoff series and the main question surrounding each matchup. Then they do a draft of which team the public would be most mad about if they won the lottery plus a discussion on some of the draft prospects. Then finally… they finish with some trivia in our weekly show Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Bryce Simon
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:08.3 | On today's show, we're talking to Bryce Simon about the NBA playoffs and the lottery. |
| 0:17.1 | Plus, we'll do some trivia. |
| 0:19.5 | With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:21.9 | Alex, what's up. |
| 0:25.5 | Good evening, Andrew. |
| 0:27.6 | Good evening. |
| 0:29.0 | We are recording this after the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Minnesota Timber Wolves. |
| 0:38.6 | And our special guest, a guess that Alex and I determined is like the most perfect |
| 0:46.3 | guest to talk both playoffs and lottery is our friend Bryce Simon. |
| 0:50.8 | Bryce, welcome to the show. |
| 1:11.0 | What's up, guys? No, that's, yeah, I guess, I don't know how many people cover the NBA at large in the NBA draft. I don't want to say as well as I do because I don't know if I do it well or not, but I at least try to do both. Come on. |
| 1:14.5 | Bryce, I think you're a five-two-player. |
| 1:15.9 | That's right. |
| 1:17.4 | We can add trivia on to that. |
| 1:19.2 | That's three tools. Well, that, no, so we're definitely down to four max because trivia is not my thing. |
| 1:25.9 | We all know this. |
| 1:27.3 | As always, I like to just note that I have no |
| 1:29.8 | I do. I do. I do. What I'm going to do Saturday morning for my workout now that I don't have |
| 1:35.4 | the slam and jam to listen to. So this is always the worst part of me coming on and recording with you |
| 1:42.3 | guys is then I have to find something else in the queue to listen to Saturday morning. |
| 1:46.3 | Do you never listen to your own pod? You never throw in a game theory? |
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