Nuggets Toast? + Which Tanking Team Deserves the first pick? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They discuss the week of basketball plus their Good, Bad, and What in which they talk about the Nuggets nose diving, the tanking teams that deserve the number one pick, and a weirdly cold stretch for 2 players. In part 2, Stephen Pridgeon-Garner of PHNX joins to discuss the Suns and how they have been this successful this season, potential offseason moves, and what could happen if they make the Playoffs. Then they finish with a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Stephen Pridgeon-Garner
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamming Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily, brought to you by Amazon Prime on today's show. |
| 0:11.8 | We're doing our good, bad, and what? |
| 0:15.5 | It's Suns Week. |
| 0:17.4 | So we'll talk about the Phoenix Suns, and then we'll finish with some trivia. |
| 0:21.7 | But before we get to any of that, Al, what happened in the NBA this week? |
| 0:27.6 | Andrew, the top story this week is that we finally got some real news about possible expansion in the NBA. |
| 0:33.9 | On Monday, Sham Shirani reported that the NBA will hold a vote at the Board of Governors meeting this upcoming week to explore adding two expansion teams, one in Las Vegas and one in Seattle. |
| 0:44.0 | If approved, the new teams could start play as soon as the 2028-29 season, which means that we could get an expansion draft. |
| 0:51.8 | The dream of every NBA podcaster, something we have not experienced |
| 0:56.7 | in almost a quarter century, never experienced in the era of podcasts. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.7 | In the summer of 2028, Shams reported that industry executives expect the costs for each |
| 1:07.8 | expansion team to fall in the $7 to $10 billion range for context. |
| 1:12.9 | Just last year, the Celtics sold for $6.1 billion, while the Lakers sold for $10 billion. |
| 1:18.0 | Speaking of the Lakers, what a week it was for our friends in purple and gold, the Lakers |
| 1:22.7 | won all four of their games and are currently on an eight-game winning streak. |
| 1:26.3 | The week started with a thrilling overtime win against Denver, |
| 1:29.3 | during which Austin Rees forced overtime by rebounding his own intentionally missed free throw, |
| 1:34.3 | floating it back in with 1.9 seconds left in regulation. |
| 1:37.3 | Then at overtime, Luca Donchich hit a game winner with 0.5 seconds left, |
| 1:41.3 | one of many, many memorable moments for Luca this week. In the second |
| 1:45.6 | of two games against the Rockets, Luca had 10 points and three assists just in the final five |
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