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Start your day with The Athletic NBA Daily – a fast, entertaining recap of the most important games and stories from the world of professional basketball with new episodes dropping Monday through Friday. Hosted by Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Esfandiar Baraheni with regular appearances by The Athletic’s award-winning NBA reporters. Andrew Schlecht and Alex Spears cap the week with the full-length Saturday Slam n’ Jam episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 6, 2021 • 55min
NBA Lie Detector Test
Sam Amick, Fred Katz, and Anthony Slater bring in Mike Singer from the Denver Post to discuss the Denver Nuggets and the NBA at large.Nuggets or Clippers, Jokic or the field for MVP, Healthy Nets or healthy Lakers, Are the Jazz true contenders? All that and much more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 5, 2021 • 42min
Jrue Holiday Gets Paid, Paul Pierce Bash, Isaiah Thomas Returns, Fraud No Fraud: Nets Front-Court + Say What? Knicks Players on the Knicks
In this week's Basketball Buds Zach Harper, Tray Edwards, Jay King and Wos Lambre talk about the implications and fallout of the Bucks / Jrue Holiday 4-year $160 Million extension. DeMarcus Cousins is back, this time with the Clippers. Then Fraud Not a Fraud: The Nets front court. Finally an injury roundup, Gordon Hayward out for four weeks, can the Hornets hang on? And then a new game called "Say What?" Things Knicks players say about the Knicks and Jay Thibodeau makes an appearance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 3, 2021 • 54min
NBA Buyout Problem? Nuggets True Contenders? Deep Dive on the Utah Jazz
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers bring you another episode of the Saturday Slam and Jam. On today's show they discuss the NBA buyout market and if it really is a small market vs. big market issue. They dive into the top 5 buyout players of the last 10 years, and answer the question of if it is a small market problem.Alex then asks the questions, "Are the Denver Nuggets title contenders?" With the addition of Aaron Gordon, does it put the Nuggets over the top? Are there different levels of contenders? We answer all that and more about the Nuggets.Then Tony Jones of the Athletic joins to help us answer all our questions about the Utah Jazz, including if they can win the title this season. Then we play our game show, Andrew vs. the Beat where Alex quizzes and Andrew and Tony on questions about the Jazz.Thanks for listening and tune in to see who the Wheel of Fandom picks next! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 2, 2021 • 49min
Deadline Decompress, March Madness Scouting + Crunch Time Issues
In this week's Nerder with Dave DuFour, Seth Partnow and Mo Dakhil. Trade Deadlines de-compression. Nuggets, Bulls and Magic. Then, March Madness Over-scouting, players moving up draft rankings and how Kemba Walker moved the needle in a good way. Finally, crunch time issues. Time and score issues and “Don’t need a three. ” Dame Time? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apr 1, 2021 • 38min
Bron Le'cruitin' Steph? Deadline Winners, Foul Not A Foul, ROY Odds + JJ Redick Upset!
In this week's Point of Contention, Marcus Thompson and special guest Jay King debate. Hosted by Zach Harper.Take 1: LeBron James is recruiting Steph Curry? On Monday Brian Windhorst set the internet aflame, in an otherwise boring week of news, with this gem!Take 2: Last Thursday the trade deadline was pretty pretty active guys, and some trades were indeed made.Take 3: Taking a different path this week let’s talk some women’s hoops. The UConn Baylor game lit the Twittersphere on fire earlier this week! With this foul or not a foul.Take 4: Continuing our weekly look at the Awards race with BetMGM.com let’s start with Rookie of the Year.Take 5: One of the 46 players moved last week was JJ Redick who went to the Dallas Mavericks, but JJ is not happy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 31, 2021 • 44min
With Chris Webber
In the latest Hoops Adjacent, TNT's Chris Webber drops by to talk to Wos and David. Chris' former teammate Juwan Howard coaching Michigan, the notorious long shorts, Keving Garnett's love, beating the Dream Team, maturing with the greats, protests, understanding history and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 30, 2021 • 52min
Around the NBA with J.A. Adande
Sam Amick, Fred Katz, and Anthony Slater are joined by legend of the business J.A. Adande to discuss his new podcast series 'The Dream Team Tapes: Kobe, LeBron & The Redeem Team' on the 2008 Olympic Men's Basketball team, the careers of Kobe, LeBron, Carmelo, Dwight, Chris Paul and more. How did these players impact the league we know today? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 29, 2021 • 49min
Trade Deadline Winners/Losers + Buyout Market & Draymod Green's Defense
The Basketball Buds, Zach Harper, Tray Edwards, Dave DuFour, Jay King and Wos Lambre. Trade Deadline fallout, winners and losers. What impact will Aaron Gordon have on the Nuggets? Nikola Vučević and the Bulls? Also what's going on now with the buyout market...Andre Drummond to the Lakers. Gorgui Dieng? LaMarcus Aldridge to the Nets. Finally Draymond Green the greatest defender of all time? And much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 27, 2021 • 1h 5min
NBA Trade Deadline Draft and Detroit Pistons Development, Draft, and Young Player Rankings
Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the NBA Trade Deadline and draft their most interesting trades of the day including Aaron Gordon to Denver, the Orlando Magic choosing their destiny, Oladipo to the Rockets and more.Alex then quizzes Andrew on the ages of players for Birthday BashJames Edwards, Detroit Pistons beat writer for the Athletic, joins the guys to discuss the Pistons' season, Jerami Grant's development, ranking the Pistons young players and then a Pistons Trivia Game.Thanks for listening, go to www.theathletic.com/nbashow to get the Athletic for $1 a month Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mar 26, 2021 • 46min
Myth Busting + NBA Circle of Life Found!
In the latest Nerder, Dave, Seth and Mo do some, myth busting..."My star player doesn't get fouled enough!" and "Seeding doesn't matter!!" And finally, The NBA Circle of Life: A Star is found! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.


