The Most and Least Clutch NBA Players + HEAT WEEK | Slam N Jam
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They discuss the week of basketball plus their Good, Bad, and why Shai’s case for the clutch player of the year, Isolation basketball, Wilt’s records and more. In part 2, Wes Goldberg joins to discuss the Bam 83 point game, how the Heat have improved lately, Pelle Larson’s improvements, and who the Heat could potentially beat in the Playoffs. Then they finish with a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat.
Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers
With: Wes Goldberg
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Video Edit: Monica Compton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily, brought to you by Amazon Prime. |
| 0:13.4 | On today's show, we're doing our good, bad end. What? And it's Heat Week. Unbelievable that it's heat week. week listen if you listen back to the end of last |
| 0:24.9 | week's episode we were disappointed for heat week and boy were we wrong uh and then we'll do some |
| 0:30.8 | trivia but before we get to any of that al tell us what happened in the NBA this week |
| 0:38.0 | Andrew the top story this week begins with an apology |
| 0:40.6 | because when the wheel of fandom landed on the Miami Heat last week, |
| 0:44.1 | Andrew and I were audibly disappointed. |
| 0:46.9 | And this is our formal apology to Heat Nation |
| 0:49.8 | because the top story this week is the Miami Heat |
| 0:52.8 | and specifically Bam Auto Bio, who scored 83 points in a basketball game against the Wizards this week. |
| 0:59.8 | That's right. Bam, out of bio, not exactly known for his scoring, more than doubled his previous career high of 41, and in doing so, passed Kobe's 81 for second on the all-time list. |
| 1:10.6 | Now, the game quickly became a flashpoint in the ongoing debate among... passed Kobe's 81 for second on the all-time list. |
| 1:16.1 | Now, the game quickly became a flashpoint in the ongoing debate among NBA fans about whether any of us actually like basketball. |
| 1:19.1 | Was BAM's 83 a fun, improbable moment to be celebrated? |
| 1:23.8 | Or does everything need to be examined through the most negative lens possible every single day until we die? |
| 1:30.4 | Heat coach Eric Spolstra made his opinion very clear afterwards saying, quote, |
| 1:34.8 | I apologize to absolutely no one. |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.6 | The heat as a team, meanwhile, are one of the hottest teams of the league, having won seven in a row, which we will talk about a little bit later. |
| 1:47.2 | Now, the Heat aren't the only team in the East on a hot streak, with the Eastern Conference playoff picture completely changing this week. |
| 1:53.0 | The Magic, winners of six straight and the Heat have moved into the five and six positions in the east, while the Raptors have fallen into the |
| 2:01.5 | plane having lost six of their last eight. In fact, going back even further, the Raptors haven't |
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