Why the Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins + DPOY Madness | Slam N Jam
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of NBA Basketball Defensive Player of the year, and our players, stats and quotes of the week. Then they are joined by Keith Parish of the Athletic to discuss the Memphis Grizzlies and why they fired Taylor Jenkins, Ja Morant’s season, the value of Brandon Clarke, and more. 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: Keith Parish
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Jake Kleinberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Saturday Slaman Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily on today's show. |
| 0:16.8 | We are talking about the defense of the year, our players of the week. And Keith Parrish is talking about the defensive player of the year, our players of the week. |
| 0:21.6 | And Keith Parrish is talking about the Grizzlies today. |
| 0:26.9 | And, you know, if you saw the wheels spinning, you didn't know. |
| 0:31.1 | We didn't know what was going to happen on Grizzlies' week. |
| 0:33.4 | We didn't know when we woke up this morning. |
| 0:34.8 | I didn't know whenever I was at the game last night talking to Taylor Jenkins prior to the game that he was no longer going to be employed. |
| 0:42.5 | Incredible. |
| 0:43.1 | Before we get to the top stories, I do want you guys to please go fill out a quick survey. |
| 0:47.4 | We love the listeners of the slam and jam. |
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| 0:52.8 | Please go fill out this survey. |
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| 0:59.0 | Three lucky winners will win a $100 gift card to Amazon. |
| 1:03.4 | So please go fill this out. |
| 1:05.7 | Again, that's theathletic.com slash athletic slash survey 25. |
| 1:10.4 | It's a mouthful, but pay attention one more time. Theathletic.com |
| 1:15.4 | slash athletic slash survey 25. I'll also put the link in the description to the show so that you |
| 1:22.1 | can have it there. But fill it out, please let us know your honest thoughts about our shows and also about your |
| 1:28.2 | podcasting habits. It would be a delight to have you do that. And now, Alex, tell me about the top |
| 1:34.0 | stories this week. Well, Andrew, our top story this week is unfortunately some injury news in the |
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