Pacers Rising + Lottery Madness | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Mike Vorkunov to discuss the NBA lottery, reform and the sale of the Blazers. Then they do a championship draft. Then they are joined by Caitlin Cooper of Basketball, She Wrote to discuss the Indiana Pacers and their run to the East Finals Then they play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Mike Vorkunov and Caitlin Cooper
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:12.2 | On today's show, we're talking to Mike Borkenoff about the NBA lottery. |
| 0:16.3 | And then Caitlin Cooper stops by to talk about the Indiana Pacers. |
| 0:19.4 | And then we'll do some Pacers trivia. |
| 0:22.4 | Muriel Sanders like with me. |
| 0:24.0 | I have Alex Spears and our buddy, Mike Vorkinoff from the athletic. |
| 0:29.4 | Mike, what's up? |
| 0:31.3 | What's going on? |
| 0:32.1 | I'm happy that I'm the opening act for Caitlin because that's the way it should be. |
| 0:35.8 | Like everyone's like, get through this guy. Let's get to the actual star, please. She's so good. Every time I talk to her, I'm like, man, I know less of a basketball than I thought I did. You know, she's so good. Me too. Looking forward to that. So, Mike, this week you got to witness one of the most dramatic and bizarre draft |
| 0:55.7 | lotteries in NBA history. |
| 0:57.6 | You're one of the media members invited to the lottery drawing room where the actual |
| 1:02.0 | draft orders determined in front of team officials and other media members. |
| 1:06.1 | What were some of the highlights from that overall experience for you? |
| 1:12.0 | I think, firstly, it was, you know, just like, I think when Dallas won the lottery, |
| 1:21.2 | everyone, everyone's reaction and like the theme of the night was just utter disbelief right like it was a |
| 1:29.9 | combination of shock surprise laughter um you know you had exec saying like nico traded cooper for |
| 1:38.8 | aluka for cooper right like i think everyone i don't say they were in on the bit but like everyone had the same |
| 1:45.6 | thoughts pretty much uh because it was such a wild outcome that i think was probably the most |
| 1:51.2 | unpredictable way the lottery could have gone i know they didn't have the longest odds but it was |
| 1:56.0 | probably the most like chaotic uh potential outcome and then, there's, there's a lot going on. |
| 2:03.0 | Aside from San Antonio getting number two pick, there's the roller coaster ride of what |
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