NBA Pressure Draft
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by National Writer at the Athletic, Fred Katz to discuss which teams and players are under the most pressure heading into the 2025-2026 season. They each will draft one for each of the following categories:
Round 1: Star Player
Round 2: Contenders
Round 3: Young Player
Round 4: Front Office
Round 5: Wildcard (Choose anything NBA-related that wouldn’t fall into one of the previous categories)
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Fred Katz
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 1:00.9 | I'm your host, Andrew Schlecht, on today's show. |
| 1:03.2 | We're talking about which team slash players slash front offices have the most pressure on them heading into the 2025-2020s |
| 1:10.9 | NBA season with me today is my good friend |
| 1:14.8 | Alex Spears Alex, what's up? |
| 1:17.0 | Hey, what's up? |
| 1:18.2 | Hey. |
| 1:18.9 | Hi, Andrew. |
| 1:19.7 | Oh, hi. |
| 1:20.3 | And with us, we have the one, the only, |
| 1:23.6 | Fred Katz of the athletic. |
| 1:25.0 | Fred, how's it going? |
| 1:26.6 | I was not told that Speer would be here. |
| 1:30.9 | Why are you bringing in these off the pod conversations, Fred? |
| 1:34.1 | Andrew, move it along. |
| 1:35.5 | Why are you got to do this? |
| 1:36.5 | Okay, we are going to talk about which players, teams, front offices will have the most pressure on them. |
| 1:43.1 | We're starting with round one star players |
| 1:46.3 | which Andrew hold on player what hold on what I want to do this a specific way okay go ahead I want |
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