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Our NBA Offseason Awards: Part 1

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Live from Las Vegas, Dave DuFour, Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss off-season awards.


Host: Dave DuFour

With: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio Producer: Grayson Moody


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0:00.0

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0:43.1

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily, live from Summer League.

0:45.3

I'm Dave Dufour here with Andrew Schlect.

0:53.3

We've got the trivia master, Alex Spears, in the house, live and in color, for the first time that we've got a chance to hang out.

1:10.9

I'm extremely pumped. And we're going to be talking off-season awards, but we're doing it in the Alex Spears style. So Alex, can you lay them out for us? Yes, I've come up with 10 awards for the off-season, which we haven't really discussed that much yet. And we're going to go through them. I'm going to give each of you an opportunity to nominate someone. But here's the deal. We're going to go back and forth between the awards. And if, if Dave says something, Andrew, you can't steal it. You can't say, oh, that was mine too. That was mine too. Okay. Got a pivot. Yeah, you have to pivot. So just some added anxiety is what I'm looking for there.

1:11.4

Okay.

1:12.1

Okay, so you guys want to jump into it. Let's go. So the first one, this is a big one. Okay. The Needle Mover Award. This award goes to the offseason move that you think will have the biggest impact on next year's championship race.

1:44.7

So, Dave, I'm going to start with you.

1:47.0

I'm going to say the Cam Johnson trade for the Denver Nuggets.

1:50.5

I think that the downstream effects of that trade for them where they saved money

1:55.7

and they were able to get all these other players.

1:57.5

I mean, that was the first domino to drop.

1:59.8

And he's a seamless fit in what they're

2:01.8

trying to do. It's an upgrade for them in a lot of different areas with him. Like he's a smart

2:06.6

player playing next to Yokic and Aaron Gordon. Like it's such a huge upgrade just from a basketball

2:12.3

IQ standpoint. So for you, it's not just that move. It's what that move it allowed it allowed so many other things

2:19.7

they were able to shave money off the cap they i mean they wind up getting yonis valentunus

2:23.9

to to be the backup for yokic because they saved money right on this move by getting michael porter

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