Nuggets in the Clutch, Llamas, and Grizzlies Week | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA basketball, corner 3s, Tyler Herro, Deni drives, and more bad things about the Clippers. After a break Keith Parish of Grits and Grinds and Fastbreak Breakfast joins the show to discuss the Grizzlies. We touch on Zach Edey’s injury, Coward’s rise, why JJJ is struggling and more. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Keith Parish
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Charles Childers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamming Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:12.0 | We're talking to Keith Parrish about the Memphis Grizzlies. |
| 0:15.3 | We're doing our good, bad, and what? |
| 0:18.0 | And we'll end the show like we always do with some trivia. |
| 0:23.1 | But before we get to any of that, Al, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:29.6 | Andrew, our top story this week is the NBA Cup. |
| 0:33.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:34.4 | We have made it to the semifinals, which will be played tomorrow in Las Vegas. |
| 0:39.3 | Our final four features the Orlando Magic in New York Knicks in the east and the Oklahoma |
| 0:43.7 | City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs in the West. |
| 0:47.0 | The magic made it to Vegas despite losing Franz Wagner to a high ankle sprain earlier in the |
| 0:51.7 | week on a play that sure looked a lot worse than a high |
| 0:54.8 | ankle sprain. Even without Franz, the Magic were able to defeat the Miami Heat 117 to 108, |
| 1:00.9 | led by Desmond Bain's 37 points. The Magic will be meeting the Knicks in Las Vegas, |
| 1:07.2 | who went on the road to Toronto and easily handled the Raptors leading by 20 points for most of |
| 1:12.1 | the second half. This is the Nick's third consecutive appearance in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, |
| 1:17.6 | but their first trip to Vegas. Let's go. In the West, Oklahoma City continued their dominant run, |
| 1:24.4 | beating the Phoenix Suns by 49 points while setting a franchise record |
| 1:28.4 | with their 16th consecutive win. |
| 1:30.8 | OKC also tied the 2016 Warriors for the best 25 game start to his season at 24-1. |
| 1:37.2 | OKC's next test will be the San Antonio Spurs, who continue to win without Victor Wemidiam. |
| 1:43.7 | They have gone 9 and three in his absence and |
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