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Apr 2025

1h 17m

Contender Draft + Playoff Preview | Slam...

About this episode

Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the week of headlines in the NBA, and an update on the surprise teams and post All Star Break Leap players. Then they are joined by Dan Devine of Yahoo! Sports to discuss the NBA Playoffs, matchups they like, and then the guys do a contender draft taking the teams they think are most likely to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy at the end of the season.Then the boys play a fun edition of Andrew vs. the Beat, a trivia game where Andrew is pitted against a beat writer.

Host: Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers

With: Dan Devine

Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht

Audio/Video Editor: Gonzalo Torres

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