Sixers Direction + What's wrong with the Rockets? | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 15 February 2025
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball, Who will win the MVP of the All Star Game, fun stats about Christian Braun and DeMar DeRozan, Nate Robinson's kidney transplant, trade deadline fallout and more. Then they are joined by Kelly Iko of the Athletic to discuss the Houston Rockets, their recent struggles, and how they will build their team in the near future. Then the boys 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: Kelly Iko
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammon Jam. I'm your host Andrew Schlect. With me today, I've got my |
| 0:16.4 | friend Alex Spears on today's show. We're talking all-star MVP, some wild stats and Kelly Eco is going |
| 0:23.2 | to join us to talk about the Houston Rockets. But before we get to all of that, Al, tell me about |
| 0:29.7 | the top stories this week. Well, Andrew, our top story this week was the continued fallout from the |
| 0:36.1 | Luca Donchich trade since last week. |
| 0:39.0 | NBA fans have waited for any new piece of information that would provide a believable |
| 0:43.8 | explanation for why this happened. Instead, every new detail that comes out just adds to its absurdity. |
| 0:50.8 | This week, the two involved stars played for their new teams for the first time in Dallas. |
| 0:55.8 | Anthony Davis put up a 14, 8, and 3 in the first quarter of his first game in a MAV's uniform, |
| 1:02.2 | leading Dallas to a 116 to 105 win over the Rockets. Unfortunately, this trade needs to repeatedly |
| 1:08.3 | slap us in the face to remind us how bad it was. And so, of course, Davis got hurt during the game on a non-contact play. |
| 1:15.0 | And of course, Davis is now week to week with an adductor strain. |
| 1:19.2 | During the MAV's next game, multiple fans were ejected from the game for communicating |
| 1:23.5 | fire Nico in various ways. |
| 1:26.0 | And it's probably also worth mentioning that new Mavs owner, Patrick |
| 1:28.8 | Dumont, spoke for the first time after the trade, saying, quote, if you look at the greats in the |
| 1:33.7 | league, the people you and I grew up with, Jordan, Bird, Kobe, Shaq, they worked really hard |
| 1:39.0 | every day with a singular focus to win. And if you don't have that, it doesn't work. You shouldn't be a part of the |
| 1:45.2 | Dallas Mavericks. So in summary, instead of a fun conspiracy theory involving backroom |
| 1:50.7 | deals with the league, the best explanation for the Luca trade a week later appears to be, |
| 1:56.0 | I think these guys might just be stupid. As LeBron commented on Instagram, quote, when a clown moves into a palace, |
| 2:03.6 | he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. Meanwhile, in L.A., master negotiator and |
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