Trivia Host
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first heard Apr 2025
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Welcome to the Saturday Slammin' Jam here on the Athletic NBA Daily. On today's show, we're going to give an update on the surprise teams. Dan Devine of Yahoo Sports stops by to discuss the playoffs, and we do a contender draft. But before we get to all of that, Alex, tell me about the top stories this week.
Wow, what a week. What a week right before the playoffs. Just so many unnecessary things happening from NBA owners this week. It was almost it's almost too good. Al, let's let's give us a prize team update. And this surprise team update is brought to you by our good friends at Bet MGM.
In hindsight, they all make sense. But at the time, like at the time, there wasn't a ton of confidence that Josh Giddey was going to turn this ship around, you know? Right. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, looking at it now, you're like, how can I be so dumb not to pick him? You know, that is definitely how it felt. OK, we are going to take a quick break.
And after this, we're going to talk to our guy, Dan Devine from Yahoo Sports. We'll be right back.
All right, Al. It is my pleasure to welcome Dan Devine onto the show from Yahoo Sports. He writes, he does podcasts. That's it. Really excited.
No more. Do not expect anything else.
Do you bake?
Baking, okay. You mentioned it as if you were slightly insulted that I didn't mention it.
Yeah. So let's keep it angry and talk about these two nine seeds who were both convincingly beaten at home by the 10 seeds for Chicago. They beat their preseason over under by 11 and a half games. Was there anything that you saw this season from the Bulls that gives you hope that they can get off this treadmill of mediocrity anytime soon.
It's so good. That's almost too good.
All right, let's move on from these losers and talk about some playoff matchups.
See you later, Dan. Since you're not as good at baking as I thought you were, please get out. So let's talk about these four matchups that we know about. Nuggets, Clippers, Lakers, Wolves, Pacers, Bucks, and Knicks, Pistons. Is there a series that you have changed your mind on over the last week or one that you're just going back and forth with?
You have now cornered me into being the homer, which is great. I knew you were going to do this. I knew you were going to do this after I decided to go second. I was like, oh, no, I'm going to have to be the one to say it. Oklahoma City Thunder plus 12.7 net rating.
68 games i mean there's like so many they've got the mvp they have one of the deepest rosters in the nba uh the bracket if you look at it has broken pretty well for okc too um so yeah i think you got to go with the thunder and it's a bold pick it's
There's still some good names. I think I'm going to take the Lakers. Yeah. with this spot. One, you have LeBron James and Luka Doncic on this team. Two of the better decision makers. And you just see this very often. Teams are going to pack the paint against this team and it's about finding the corners.
And you have two of the best minds in the game that will get all the way to the rim and they will make a move that looks like a shot but then they will just zip it to the corner. And It's so impressive. And now it's on the shoulders of these guys to hit shots from the corners for sure.
But if they can get hot, similar to what the Mavericks did last year, then you're going to have a chance to make a run. I do worry about their size on the interior and they've done a really good job of packing the paint with lots of guys and doing a lot of recovery stuff similar to OKC. I think that JJ Redick has talked so much about how he's such a big fan of Mark Dagnall.
And you start to see like some of the stuff that Mark does and some of the stuff the Lakers are doing. And so I wonder about the sustainability of their defense. We've seen it like wax and wane over the last like stretch after they got Luca has been really strong. And then they've had weeks where that's not look good at all.
And so I just wonder for a sustained playoff run, can they actually keep it together for that long? Because it's so taxing on all these guys like Jared Vanderbilt is going to be just completely worn out by the end of this thing. But I do wonder about that. But if they can keep the defense up, You obviously have two guys that can deliver and clutch moments.
I think that this, to me, is the next best team. And they also don't have to play OKC until the conference finals. And so you just never know. If you can get there, you just never know.
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