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Sam Amick

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The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

Yeah, so... The answer to me is Portland, number one. I just am not... Portland is not an untalented basketball team. They're sitting at seven right now in the draft order as we speak, right? It's not like they don't have guys, but... I'm fairly worried about the scoot Henderson experience at this point. I do think that like a coaching change is in order there.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

Yeah, so... The answer to me is Portland, number one. I just am not... Portland is not an untalented basketball team. They're sitting at seven right now in the draft order as we speak, right? It's not like they don't have guys, but... I'm fairly worried about the scoot Henderson experience at this point. I do think that like a coaching change is in order there.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

Yeah, so... The answer to me is Portland, number one. I just am not... Portland is not an untalented basketball team. They're sitting at seven right now in the draft order as we speak, right? It's not like they don't have guys, but... I'm fairly worried about the scoot Henderson experience at this point. I do think that like a coaching change is in order there.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

I would like to see scoot under a different coach, especially after he played really, really well without Chauncey Billups there for a few games earlier this season, I think about a month ago. So I would really like to see just like a different voice there, but you know, scoot himself, it's all flashes. It's not consistent play. And it feels like a lot of the time he doesn't,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

I would like to see scoot under a different coach, especially after he played really, really well without Chauncey Billups there for a few games earlier this season, I think about a month ago. So I would really like to see just like a different voice there, but you know, scoot himself, it's all flashes. It's not consistent play. And it feels like a lot of the time he doesn't,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

I would like to see scoot under a different coach, especially after he played really, really well without Chauncey Billups there for a few games earlier this season, I think about a month ago. So I would really like to see just like a different voice there, but you know, scoot himself, it's all flashes. It's not consistent play. And it feels like a lot of the time he doesn't,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

regularly understand like the tempo of the game in the way that you need to at the point guard position. So, I mean, they, you know, kind of strike me as a team that could really use one Brooklyn, obviously, but like Brooklyn is also in a big market. And from what I understand about kind of their plans moving forward, I,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

regularly understand like the tempo of the game in the way that you need to at the point guard position. So, I mean, they, you know, kind of strike me as a team that could really use one Brooklyn, obviously, but like Brooklyn is also in a big market. And from what I understand about kind of their plans moving forward, I,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

regularly understand like the tempo of the game in the way that you need to at the point guard position. So, I mean, they, you know, kind of strike me as a team that could really use one Brooklyn, obviously, but like Brooklyn is also in a big market. And from what I understand about kind of their plans moving forward, I,

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they have so many draft picks now and they have so much flexibility and cap space moving forward that they're going to be able to turn this thing around on the fly pretty quickly. Right. And I don't think they're just looking at this draft is like, we have to get number one or number two.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they have so many draft picks now and they have so much flexibility and cap space moving forward that they're going to be able to turn this thing around on the fly pretty quickly. Right. And I don't think they're just looking at this draft is like, we have to get number one or number two.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they have so many draft picks now and they have so much flexibility and cap space moving forward that they're going to be able to turn this thing around on the fly pretty quickly. Right. And I don't think they're just looking at this draft is like, we have to get number one or number two.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they're looking at things holistically and saying, we need to get another star in the building and we want to position ourselves in order to be able to find that star either via free agency trade market or the NBA draft.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they're looking at things holistically and saying, we need to get another star in the building and we want to position ourselves in order to be able to find that star either via free agency trade market or the NBA draft.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

they're looking at things holistically and saying, we need to get another star in the building and we want to position ourselves in order to be able to find that star either via free agency trade market or the NBA draft.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

So given all of the assets that they have given everything that they have kind of strung together via a series of moves here recently, the Mikkel Bridges deal, everything like that, they're in like a pretty positive position, I think. Washington also strikes me as a team that could desperately use a real star, obviously.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

So given all of the assets that they have given everything that they have kind of strung together via a series of moves here recently, the Mikkel Bridges deal, everything like that, they're in like a pretty positive position, I think. Washington also strikes me as a team that could desperately use a real star, obviously.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

So given all of the assets that they have given everything that they have kind of strung together via a series of moves here recently, the Mikkel Bridges deal, everything like that, they're in like a pretty positive position, I think. Washington also strikes me as a team that could desperately use a real star, obviously.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

I think that if they were to get number one, a core defensively of Cooper Flagg, Bilal Kulabali, and Alex Saar would just be so fun to watch in the front court at the 3-4-5. I don't know that Washington necessarily has... I like Alex Saar a lot. I'm really interested in his development throughout the course of this season, but... I don't think he's like a number one option down the road.

The Athletic NBA Daily
2025 NBA Draft Preview + Rookie Awards | Slam N Jam

I think that if they were to get number one, a core defensively of Cooper Flagg, Bilal Kulabali, and Alex Saar would just be so fun to watch in the front court at the 3-4-5. I don't know that Washington necessarily has... I like Alex Saar a lot. I'm really interested in his development throughout the course of this season, but... I don't think he's like a number one option down the road.