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Dec 2024
1h 28m

John Hollinger + Slammie Awards

THE ATHLETIC
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Saturday Slam N Jam

Andrew 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 NBA 100. Then the guys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. The Beat.

Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

With: John Hollinger

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio Producer: Jake Kleinberg


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