Who are the True Contenders? + The Spurs Future
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball NBA Title Odds , and our players, stats and quotes of the week. Then they are joined by Matthew Tynan to discuss the San Antonio Spurs and Wemby's future, Stephon Castles rookie seaosn, and what the expectations look like for the Spurs future. Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.
Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers
With: Matthew Tynan
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slammin'jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:16.4 | On today's show, we're talking title odds. |
| 0:19.3 | Our players of the week and Matthew Tynan joins us to talk about the San Antonio Spurs. |
| 0:26.4 | But to start off, Al, tell me about the top stories this week. |
| 0:31.8 | Andrew, the top story this week was March Madness. I'm not talking about college basketball, Andrew. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm talking about the month every year when the NBA completely loses its marbles. |
| 0:41.9 | Dude. |
| 0:42.1 | March is the NBA's version of the purge, where for 31 days there are no laws. |
| 0:47.0 | Anything is possible. |
| 0:48.1 | And teams and players conspire to create the most insane headlines. |
| 0:52.4 | Nicola Yokic and the Denver Nuggets getting swept by the Washington Wizards? |
| 0:56.5 | Sure. |
| 0:57.6 | Those same nuggets without Yokic and Murray beating the Warriors on the road, the hottest team in the league? |
| 1:03.5 | As long as it's March, you can do that. |
| 1:05.7 | Quentin Grimes, averaging over 31 points per game in his last six, including a career high 46 against Houston, |
| 1:13.9 | anything is possible. |
| 1:15.2 | Like Sandra Mamu Kellysch-Velley scoring 34 points in 19 minutes against the Knicks. |
| 1:22.4 | Even for March, that's a little much. |
| 1:25.4 | The Chicago Bulls championship banners getting damaged because of |
| 1:29.1 | pyrotechnics at the disturbed concert, the band best known for their famous lyric. |
| 1:36.1 | That doesn't happen in February. Only in March. Suffice to say, it was a strange weekend. |
| 1:43.4 | The Cleveland Cavalier's 16-game winning streak not only came to an end at the hands of the Orlando Magic. |
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