{"podcast":{"title":"The Athletic NBA Daily","slug":"the-athletic-nba-daily-529354","podcast_index_feed_id":529354,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6818c192eb737caf8cadd833","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcasts/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6818c192eb737caf8cadd833/1774730840738-f98f6396-6203-4925-97bf-d79a38383850.jpeg","author":"The Athletic","episode_count":2215,"summary":"Start your day with The Athletic NBA Daily – a fast, entertaining recap of the most important games and stories from the world of professional basketball with new episodes dropping Monday through Friday. Hosted by Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Esfandiar Baraheni with regular appearances by The Athletic’s award-winning NBA reporters. Andrew Schlecht and Alex Spears cap the week with the full-length Saturday Slam n’ Jam episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T20:21:22.066005+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-athletic-nba-daily-529354"},"episode":{"title":"NBA Draft Prep w Sam Vecenie | Slam N Jam","slug":"nba-draft-prep-w-sam-vecenie-slam-n-jam","published_at":"2026-05-16T12:43:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-athletic-nba-daily-529354/nba-draft-prep-w-sam-vecenie-slam-n-jam","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-athletic-nba-daily-529354","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-athletic-nba-daily/episodes/nba-draft-prep-w-sam-vecenie-slam-n-jam","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6818c192eb737caf8cadd833/e/6a07b769be883d76c875632f/media.mp3","summary":"Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They are joined by Sam Vecenie of the Athletic and the Game Theory Podcast. They discuss 8 questions about the NBA Draft including thoughts on the combine, if the Wizards should trade down, ranking the glut of guards and much more. Then they do a lightning round of questions on the draft. Finally… they finish with some trivia in our weekly show Andrew vs. the Beat.  Hosts: Andrew Schlecht, Alex Speers With: Sam Vecenie Producer: Andrew Schlecht Video Edit: Monica Compton Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers are back for another episode of the Saturday Slam N Jam. They are joined by Sam Vecenie of the Athletic and the Game Theor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4708,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-athletic-nba-daily-529354/episodes/nba-draft-prep-w-sam-vecenie-slam-n-jam/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-athletic-nba-daily-529354/nba-draft-prep-w-sam-vecenie-slam-n-jam.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}