The Kevin Durant Rockets, Austin Reaves, Ryan Rollins
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the fun first week of the NBA season, the Good, the Bad, and the WHAT?? and then the boys are joined by Will Guillory of the Athletic to discuss the Houston Rockets and the beginning of the KD era, Sengun’s progress, Amen’s start to the season, and if Reed Shepherd can improve enough to become an impactful rotation player. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Will Guillory
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily, presented by eBay. |
| 0:12.6 | On today's show, we're discussing our good, bad, and what of the week? |
| 0:18.9 | And Will Gilleri stops by to talk about the Rockets. |
| 0:23.0 | And then we finish him with some trivia. |
| 0:25.4 | But before we get to all of that, Alex, tell me what happened in the NBA this week. |
| 0:30.2 | Andrew, the top story this week was Austin Reeves, who took the league by storm. |
| 0:35.9 | After Luca was ruled out for the week's games with a finger sprain and a leg bruise. |
| 0:40.6 | Reeves started his Luca-less week by putting up 51, 11, and 9 in a win over the Kings in Sacramento. |
| 0:47.8 | Reeves took 22 free throws in the game, which was a career high. |
| 0:51.6 | That was actually the first of two 50-point games this week. |
| 0:54.3 | Laurie Markinen also had 51 in a win over the Sons. The night after Reeves scored 51 |
| 1:00.0 | against the Kings, it was a back-to-back. At home, he scores 41 in a loss to the Blazers. |
| 1:06.1 | Then two nights later, against Minnesota, who were dealing with an extended injury |
| 1:10.0 | absence of their own with |
| 1:11.0 | Anthony Edwards, Reeves had 28 and 16, including a game-winning floater as time expired. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, while Reeves was clearly able to step up to the challenge this week, it would be nice to have |
| 1:22.1 | Luca back, who is questionable as of right now for Friday night's game. So we are a week and a half into the season and four |
| 1:29.6 | undefeated teams remain. Let's go through them first, the least surprising one. The Oklahoma City |
| 1:35.1 | Thunder, the Thunder are 6'0 despite not having Jalen Williams, J. Dub, and while missing key |
| 1:41.1 | contributors nightly, but they have taken advantage of a mostly cake schedule to start the season. And SGA once again is leading the way, averaging over |
| 1:48.4 | 34 points per game. Joining OKC at the top of the West standings are the San Antonio Spurs, |
| 1:54.4 | who are 5 and O for the first time in franchise history. What? How's that possible? |
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