NBA Trade Awards | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht is joined by Fred Katz to break down the NBA Trade Deadline and hand out trade awards including:
Pau Gasol Award - the trade that makes a team a true contender
PJ Washington Award - goes to the trade that most people didn’t like, but we think could really pay off in the Playoffs
Gordon Hayward Award - a trade that most everyone praises but it will reveal a player is washed
Poeltl Award - to the team that gave up a first round pick for a player and everyone will question it all of next season
Mike Conley Award - a trade for a veteran that will end up helping turn a team around
Simone Fontecchio award - the trade that NBA sickos obsess over, but won’t move the needle at all
Bogdanovic and Burks award - to the most overrated trade of the deadline
Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Fred Katz
Video Editor: Monica Compton
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamma Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily, brought to you by Amazon Prime on today's show. |
| 0:12.8 | We're doing trade awards with Fred Katz. We are not doing trivia again. Alex Spears is again not showing up to the podcast, but listen, |
| 0:22.7 | here's what we have to be grateful for, is that it was supposed to be Clippers week last week. |
| 0:27.7 | And I promise you that show would be a lot different than the one that's going to happen next |
| 0:32.5 | week with Law Murray. So listen, it's a blessing in disguise. But today, Fred Katz and I are going to recap the trade deadline and hand out some awards, some fun awards. |
| 0:44.6 | Fred, how's it going? |
| 0:46.9 | This is a crazy day for people working in and around the NBA. |
| 0:51.4 | It is a crazy day. |
| 0:53.0 | There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. There's a lot to follow. |
| 0:55.3 | There's a lot to do. No question. Crazy for you too. Crazy for all of us. Yeah. I want you to |
| 1:02.8 | reveal what I think is one of the more Fred Katz things to write about. This is one of like the |
| 1:06.9 | dorkiest things that you could write about. Oh, thank you for putting those two things back to back. |
| 1:12.0 | Is the, |
| 1:12.8 | the Thunder making a trade for a player that will probably never play for them? |
| 1:19.1 | A name that I frankly just can't even pronounce. |
| 1:23.2 | It is, I think, and I even put this out in a tweet that I think it's an acquisition to use for a trade in the future. |
| 1:30.0 | But like you've revealed in something you read at the athletic why they would want this to trade in the future. |
| 1:36.0 | So could you lay this out for our listeners? |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.8 | So the Thunder made a trade on Wednesday that I have to imagine nobody saw, nobody knew about. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.2 | Nobody even cared about, including probably even the guy who got traded, whose first name, I believe, is pronounced Bolsa. |
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