Thunder Finals Appearance + Offseason Primer with Sam Amick | Slam N Jam

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are joined by Sam Amick of the Athletic to discuss the Thunder moving on to the NBA Finals, if teams are now scared of them, what’s next for the Timberwolves, and they also touch on the Eastern Conference Finals.

Then the guys discuss the upcoming NBA offseason and what could happen with Giannis, Kevin Durant, the Celtics, the Rockets and much more. Then the guys finish with a rousing version of Andrew vs. the Beat where Andrew and Sam go head to head in a trivia battle.

Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

With: Sam Amick

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Saturday Slamin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily.
0:09.3	On today's show, we're talking to Sam Amick about the Thunder moving on to the finals,
0:13.8	the Eastern Conference Finals, some off-season topics, and then we'll do some trivia.
0:19.0	With me, as always, is my good friend Alex Spears.
0:22.1	And also with us is a good friend, Sam Amick, who I got to spend some time with here
0:28.6	at OKC, which was a delight.
0:30.3	Sam, welcome to the show.
0:32.3	Andrew, Alex, thank you for having me.
0:34.7	It was a delight to get to see you in person, Andrew.
0:38.0	It's been a long time since I was in OKC.
0:41.5	So these past couple of weeks getting, you know, not a little bit, but a lot of bit of time out there has been fun.
0:49.2	I will say this, you and I hanging, you know, two seats apart from each other at these games in, and this is your
0:57.5	all-season long life.
0:59.3	Yeah.
1:00.1	Either there or at the scorers table, you know, in the belly of the beast, so to speak, was a lot
1:05.6	of fun because in today's NBA, media seating is not typically that good.
1:11.7	Loud City is living up to its name.
1:14.9	I think my hearing has definitely been diminished in the past couple weeks,
1:20.5	but they were fun to watch,
1:22.8	and it was just a cool environment to be a part of.
1:25.2	Yeah, it's no joke.
1:26.3	It is legitimately crazy loud.
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