Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily.

On today's show, we are doing the way too early Eastern Conference rankings.

With me is my buddy Fred Katz.

Alex Spears is, listen, celebrating America

on this day. And Fred and I are talking about the Eastern Conference. We'll celebrate America

later. Fred, thanks for joining me early here on July 4th.

To be clear, Alex Spears is actually at America Ferreira's business school graduation party.

Yeah, that's- He's not at any July 4th festivities.

Yeah, that's right.

Just to be clear about what's happening here with Alex. if it were any other day then i think people would

know obviously everyone's been following america ferrera's track through business school yep

naturally to clarify yes yeah today that could be a little bit confusing so i just wanted to make

sure everybody got that got that right i don want to miss interpretations. I'd also like to

apologize for not being Alex Spears. I feel like I've spent an unusual amount of my life

apologizing to swaths of people for not being Alex Spears. Yep. Sorry. Yep. But you'll deal.

You'll deal with America Ferreira references right off the bat. Right off the bat.

If you want to see Alex Spears in person, he will be in Las Vegas and we will record Slamma Jam live.

So I will put out some details about that on Twitter and Blue Sky and all of that at some point.

So we'd love for you guys to come watch us.

And we're also doing trivia live on the concourse.

So you may have a chance to be a slam and jam contestant.

Andrew, we're going to do Andrew versus the street out on the concourse in Las Vegas.

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