Surprise NBA Teams
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Slam and Jam
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss which team expected to win less than 36 games will surprise and win 10 more than their Vegas over/under. Our discussion includes the Rockets, Pistons, Wizards, Hornets, Jazz, Blazers, and Spurs. Which teams will Andrew and Alex pick to be their "Surprise Team"?
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| 0:45.8 | I'm your host, Andrew Schlecht. |
| 0:46.8 | With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears. |
| 0:50.2 | Alex, what's up? |
| 0:51.9 | What's up, Andrew? |
| 0:53.4 | We are back and we are in a new spot. |
| 0:56.4 | Every week we're going to come at you on a Friday. |
| 0:58.8 | So no more Saturday slam a jam. |
| 1:00.2 | It's just a slam and jam, which is exciting. |
| 1:03.9 | Something else that's exciting is that we have the NBA season starting next week. |
| 1:07.5 | And with that, we wanted to bring you something for the third time. |
| 1:11.8 | The third time we've done this? |
| 1:13.1 | It's surprise teams. |
| 1:14.9 | Surprise teams. |
| 1:15.8 | Al, tell us what is a surprise team? |
| 1:18.6 | And then we are going to run through all the possible surprise teams. |
| 1:23.8 | Yes, as Andrew mentioned, this is the third year in a row. |
| 1:26.4 | We've done this. |
| 1:27.0 | If you're a new listener, well, this is a great episode to start with because the surprise team holds a very dear place in slamming jam history. |
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