Saturday Slam N JamAndrew Schlecht and Alex Speers hand out their quarterly Slammie Awards including: League Pass Team of the 1st Quarter, Say What? Stat of the 1st Quarter, They did what now? Award, "Now THIS is gonna be fun" award, and many more. Then in Part 2 John Hollinger of the Athletic joins the show to discuss some of his observations a quarter way through the season and discuss his new book the Basketball 100. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. The Beat.Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex SpeersWith: John HollingerExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Jake KleinbergSubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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welcome to the saturday slam and jam here on the athletic nba daily on today's show we're talking top stories of the week our quarterly slamy awards and john hollinger stops by to talk about his new book the basketball 100 by everybody here at the athletic it's a great great book suggest that you go pick it up now but to start with al tell me what the top stories in the nba were this week
Well, Andrew, the top story this week was the conclusion of group play in the NBA Cup. We have our Elite Eight, who will now move on to the elimination round. In the East, we've got Orlando going to Milwaukee and Atlanta going to New York. In the West, it's Dallas OKC and Golden State Houston. BetMGM has the Thunder and Knicks tied for the best odds at plus 300, but don't...
Don't overlook my Atlanta Hawks.
Is that our bet MGM line of the week?
Is that our bet MGM line of the week right there, Al? Yeah, and I'm going to give you my pick right now, Andrew, because the Atlanta Hawks have the worst odds at plus 1,800, but are exactly the type of weird team that could do this.
Just to get this far, the Hawks had to get out of a group that featured Boston and Cleveland, two teams who have seven losses combined, three of which came at the hands of the mighty Hawks. So crazy. Speaking of Celtics and Cavs, now they might be out of the race for the NBA Cup, but they can still win the second most prestigious trophy this season, the Larry O'Brien.
And this week, we got round two of Celtics-Cavs, this time in Cleveland. Down by 12 entering the fourth quarter, the Cavs would outscore the Celtics 43-27, including 20 from Donovan Mitchell in the quarter to win 115-111. Now, it should be noted that Boston played without two starters, Jalen Brown and Derek White, but
they did have Chris Stapps Porzingis back who scored 21 in the loss and played a season high 32 minutes the Cavs are now 20 and 3 which is incredible on its own even more incredible that they could be 22 and 1 if they could just beat those damn Atlanta Hawks
Those Atlanta Hawks have won five in a row, including a win over the Milwaukee Bucks, who had previously been on a seven game winning streak. The Bucks season has finally normalized as they've clawed their way back to 11 and 10 fifth spot in East. Giannis is leading the league in scoring.
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