Thank you!

Embarrassed to have not predicted “The Scoot Game.” Game 3 is going to be a scene.

Blazers got my ass standing up in the living room the last 5 minutes.

Award pod season is a great time of year to allow yourself to get mad. Getting fired up about one micro-argument a person makes about a guy they ranked 4th for some award. Arguing with them in your head for 10 minutes and then going back to work.

Game 3 tickets secured. Pumped and jacked to see Wemby in his first playoff series.

🫡 to Denver. That was a wildly impressive win.

Recording Slam and Jam on location

Tonight is the night, Mark. Free us from our shame.

This week on Slam and Jam, we are joined by @wesgoldberg.bsky.social from Locked on Heat and a goose on top of Andrew’s car who wouldn’t shut up to discuss the craziest Wheel of Fandom week ever. HEAT WEEK! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Bam Adebayo checks out with 83 points. 8-3. Not a typo. The most hilarious final three minutes of an NBA game since Poku vs. Daniel Oturu on the last day of the 2021 season.

Genuinely one of the most unexpected sports moments in my lifetime. Sitting here at the dinner table with my family clapping for Bam Adebayo!! What is this?!?

Welp, Andrew and I definitely underestimated Heat Week.

Well I’ll be damned

We were having such a good time, Dort.

MCCAIN!!!!

JWill’s been a hero tonight. Impossible ask and he’s played as well as you could ever hope.

Dort lord…

Ajay looks like he’s been shot out of a cannon tonight.

Cason is a -27 in this 4-point game lol. He’s had the unfortunate role of guarding Jokic a few too many times.

This is where Mark needs to lean on Ajay or McCain more. They are in desperate need of a secondary creator right now.

This week, we welcomed @trillbrodude.bsky.social to Slam and Jam to talk about the feel-bad Sixers and discuss the Sixers mascot lineage. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Taking care of my mental health has never been my forte, but I gotta give myself credit…I had to get on X to message a Slam and Jam guest and good lord, getting off that site was genuinely one of the best things I’ve ever done for my mental health. I’m proudly not built for that hellhole.

Still can’t get over how seamless McCain’s fit has been. His scoring has been so effortless and consistent off the bench.

Still getting used to thinking Chet’s season is over multiple times per game followed by him popping up and being fine.

That was a DPOY play from Chet.

Look at where Alex Caruso is when this play starts. Far corner on the baseline. SPRINTS back, gets the steal, and then navigates the floor coast to coast to put OKC up 5 late. This man is constantly making timely plays. #NBASky #SkyHoops

What a sequence from Caruso. That was beautiful.

What a win. Never would've guessed these two games would be some of the most entertaining Thunder games we'd get this season.

And of course we also have Dort, the midrange maestro, putting in work.

CASOOOOOO. Wildly impressive finishes during this run.

LOL

Isaiah Joe bro...this run has been incredible. His decision-making has been at hyperspeed.

I still cannot believe OKC just casually added Jared McCain to their team. Just flow into two man game, relocate for three, kick for threes. Come on.

That last McCain play 😍

Cheddar Bob ready for the rivalry today.

Shoutout to Daryl Morey for Jared McCain and making this Sixers pick suddenly look interesting.

Andrew vs the Beat mistake: I said Jaylen Brown only had one career triple-double and sounded surprised as I said it. That's because it was wrong. He has 6. Slam and Jam apologizes for this error.

Topo Nico balling tonight.

It really is funny to hear all this tanking talk, look at the standings, and realize how few teams will be incentivized to tank next season. We're going to solve tanking whether we do something or not.

I can’t believe how good this is.

That was great! 😊

Dame should become a permanent fixture in the 3pt contest. I want him haunting the field when he’s 45.

My bud Alex, aka @albabycakes.bsky.social, is ALWAYS unmatched! I join an audience of hundreds of thousands when I say: I ❤️ the Saturday Slam 'n' Jam, presented by @theathletic.com! @andrewschlecht.bsky.social is darn good, too!

Here to confront Daryl Morey about his Jared McCain comments

They did it again.

They got the big game on at the bar

As a tank connoisseur, this is going to be an all-time tank season. We’re getting Daniel Oturu-level events nightly and it’s early February.

Convincing myself today will be the Harden first game in Houston for McCain.

With the caveat that it's been a massively disappointing season for McCain (only reason he was available), this is a no-brainer for OKC. Addresses one of team's biggest needs offensively while offering legitimate upside, cost control, and by all accounts, one of the best personalities in the league.