Jared Weiss

The Clippers' recent success isn't just great news for the Clippers.

It's also great news for 28 other teams who are hoping the Clippers don't stumble into giving the Thundering top pick in next year's draft.

But honestly, Andrew...

Maybe the Thunder need that top pick.

Do they need that?

What happened to this team?

The last time we did an episode of Slam & Jam, the Thunder had just lost their second game of the season, a two-point loss to the Spurs in the NBA Cup semifinals.

Starting with that first loss to the Spurs, the Thunder have gone 7-6 over their next 13 games.

After starting 24-1, they narrowly avoided a three-game losing streak this week.

After going all the way to overtime with the Utah Jazz, the two losses this week included a pretty fun game with the Suns that was won on a Devin Booker three-pointer with 0.7 seconds left, but also a 27-point loss to the Charlotte Hornets at home.

Even with some blowout wins during the stretch, the Thunder's offense has plummeted to 18th overall per clean of the glass.

Their overall record remains a very impressive 31-7 as of Friday morning, but things are clearly off, and there's two marquee matchups coming up against the Spurs and Rockets next week.

Now, if you look across the standings, there's only one team who was eight and two or better in their last ten, and that is the Boston Celtics.

Now, admittedly, hasn't been the toughest schedule as of late, but if you push it back a little further, this team has been on a tear, winning 13 of their last 17.

Jalen Brown, who had a 50-point game against the Clippers this week, he's been playing so well, we're starting to debate whether he's in the MVP conversation or whether he's just been invited to the table.

As good as Boston has been, the real reason I brought them up was actually to talk about the Denver Nuggets, who beat those Boston Celtics on Thursday night behind a 30-point game from Peyton Watson, who went 6 of 7 from 3 and is suddenly shooting 40% from 3 on 3.2 attempts this season.

Now, it was assumed that the Nuggets would take a huge fall once Nikola Jokic went down, but so far, they're keeping their heads above water, going 3-2 since Jokic went down, including an overtime win against Philly this week, where the Nuggets started Peyton Watson, Spencer Jones, Bruce Brown, Deron Holmes, and Jalen Pickett.

While the Nuggets have a lot of games this month, they only face two teams in January that are currently top eight in their respective conference.

Finally, a few points of history this week.

Anthony Edwards, third youngest player in NBA history to score 10,000 points.