Nuggets Heating Up + Derik Queen Rising? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of the NBA basketball, the Good, the Bad, and the WHAT?? and then the boys are joined by Adam Mares of DNVR to discuss the Denver Nuggets and their hot start to the season, how Jokic has improved, what do you do with the Chicago loss, how good is their defense, and much more. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Adam Mares
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:10.3 | On today's show, we're talking about the good, the bad, and the what of this week. |
| 0:16.2 | Adam Marez of D and VR joins to talk Nuggets. |
| 0:20.2 | And then we finish off with some trivia. |
| 0:24.8 | But Al, first, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:28.6 | Andrew, the top story this week is the Detroit Pistons. |
| 0:34.2 | Detroit. |
| 0:35.7 | They have won 11 straight games. |
| 0:38.8 | They currently sit atop the Eastern Conference at 13 and 2. |
| 0:42.5 | Just a couple years removed from being the talk of the NBA for a very different kind of streak. |
| 0:48.2 | The Pistons now have their longest streak since the 0.7-08 season. |
| 0:52.7 | And meanwhile, the architect of that infamous losing streak from a few seasons ago has |
| 0:57.7 | gotten the opportunity to do it again as the Pelicans lost their seventh straight this |
| 1:03.2 | week. |
| 1:03.8 | Now, for the Bistons, next two games, Milwaukee without Janus, and the Pacers, if they win those |
| 1:10.5 | two games, it will set up a matchup |
| 1:12.0 | with the Celtics next Wednesday on ESPN, where a win would clinch the longest winning streak |
| 1:17.7 | in Pistons franchise history at 14 games. Now, some of the highlights this week for the Pistons |
| 1:23.3 | were a starting lineup of Duncan Robinson, Paul Reed, Ron Holland, Javante Green, and Danish Jenkins |
| 1:29.4 | beating the Sixers. |
| 1:31.4 | And then Jalen Duren going for 31 and 15 against the Pacers. |
| 1:35.6 | And speaking of Jalen Dern, could the Pistons get two All-Stars this year? |
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