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NBA Summer League Deep Dive with Sam Vecenie

The Athletic NBA Daily

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Nba, Sports, Nba News, News, Basketball, Sports News, Nba Draft, Comedy

4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We are live at NBA Summer League in Vegas and Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers check in with Sam Vecenie of the Athletic to discuss Summer League and all the players surrounding it. During the interview Alex gives Sam and Andrew a trivia quiz.


Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

With: Sam Vecenie

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht


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0:00.0

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0:27.5

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0:34.3

Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily.

0:43.0

On today's show, we are live in Las Vegas at Summer League with our good friend San Vasini.

0:49.1

We're going to talk about rookies.

0:50.7

We're going to talk about sophomores and so much more.

0:53.0

Before we get to that, Alex Spears also live in Las Vegas with us today, which is what a joy to do this together in person.

1:02.1

Can you believe this?

1:03.4

I love all of you.

1:04.3

I love both of you, except for one thing right now.

1:06.8

Yeah?

1:07.3

You're making me miss the Cooper Flagg Riley Minnicks Show showdown it is the it's really the riley minnicks

1:13.7

cooper flag showdown let's be honest right so i'm a little bit disappointed but you know what can we do

1:19.1

we only have the time windows that we have it is horrific timing but we're going to make it work

1:23.5

um i'm going to throw to Alex to talk about how how is alick going to torture us today with trivia is the question, and it's going to be a little different. All right, Sam, you've been on the show a lot. We always do Andrew versus the beat. It always comes at the end of the show. This time's going to be a little different. After every question we ask you today, we're going to do a mini Andrew versus the beat. I've come up with three questions about every single NBA team. 90 questions total. We're not going to do all of them, but you're going to pick any team. What a psycho. No, no, normal. It's normal behavior. No, no. You're staring at me wide-eyed talking about trivia. You're going to get to pick a team after each question, and we're going to do a mini Andrew versus the beat, and then I'll add it up over the course of the episode. Okay, so Andrew, start is off. Okay. So, Sam, you've been in Vegas for a few days now. What are the most popular Summer League conversations that are happening right now? What are the topics that people are touching on the most?

2:18.4

Yeah, I feel like the LeBron thing has come up quite a bit, to be honest, just what's going on with LeBron,

2:23.6

what's going to happen there? Yep. What's happening with the Lakers in general? How competitive

2:28.9

are the Lakers right now? Are they going to be able to field a team that is genuinely capable of winning a title?

2:35.0

Or, and to do that, they're going to have to improve.

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