The Gritty Lakers, Trading CJ McCollum, and Warriors Deep Dive with Ethan Strauss
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🗓️ 17 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers recap the week that was in the NBA, dive into the Lakers gritty defense, integrating Andre Drummond, and LeBron James improbable run. Then Alex proposes 5 fake CJ McCollum trades, but will they change the trajectory of the Blazers?
Then we celebrate some NBA birthdays before we bring in Ethan Strauss of the Athletic to discuss the Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry's amazing season, the future of James Wiseman, is Steve Kerr a problem?, and then we play some Warriors trivia.
Stay tuned to see what team we will discuss next week with the Wheel of Fandom!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin Jam, hosted by Andrew Schlicht with Alex Spears. |
| 0:09.1 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:10.8 | That's a man's jam! |
| 0:12.1 | I like that idea. |
| 0:13.0 | Live from Oklahoma. |
| 0:14.5 | Click, click. |
| 0:15.1 | With questions and participants from all around the world. |
| 0:18.1 | Anthony Edwards. |
| 0:19.2 | Put that on a poster. |
| 0:20.7 | Whether you're flipping your flapjacks, tending to your yard, or just sipping your coffee, get ready, sit back, relax. It's the Saturday Slamin' Jam. Back here's, I miss this shot. I'll walk away. I'm still a chunk. Here's Andrew. Welcome to the Saturday Slamman Jam. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm your host Andrew Schlect. |
| 0:39.9 | Be sure to go to the athletic.com slash NBA show to get the athletic for $3.99 a month. |
| 0:47.5 | With me, as always, is my co-host Alex Spears. |
| 0:50.7 | And Alex, tell us what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, Andrew, it all began last Friday night, as it always does, when the Golden State |
| 0:59.6 | Warriors, our Warriors, faced off against the Washington Wizards. Once upon a time, |
| 1:04.5 | our Wizards. With the Warriors up by three with six seconds left, it was time to kick off |
| 1:09.1 | another great week for the Wheel of |
| 1:11.4 | fandom. The only problem was that Bradley Beale decided to shoot a three-pointer and the Warriors |
| 1:17.1 | decided to foul him. The Warriors lost. On Saturday night, the Lakers, still without |
| 1:23.4 | LeBron and Anthony Davis, beat the Nets by 25 points, a game in which Kyrie and Kady |
| 1:29.4 | played. It also happened to be the final game of Lamarcus Aldridge's career, something |
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