Erik Slater (@ErikSlater

Erik Slater

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Erik Slater

@ErikSlater_

NBA/Brooklyn Nets reporter @ClutchPoints • Host @LockedOnNets • @NewhouseSU @LehighU Alum • Contact: [email protected]

Brooklyn, NY

Joined July 2015

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Erik Slater
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Jun 9
🚨New @LockedOnNets episode with @tmetcalf11 analyzing Aday Mara as a Nets target🚨 🏀 Why Mara has game-changing upside 👀 Will he be in play at 6? 📝 Strengths, weaknesses, outlook 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loc… 📺: youtu.be/9_Q1h-lT2Xo?si…
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Erik Slater
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Mar 23, 2022
I never saw this vid. This is cold as hell.
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Feb 2, 2025
Nets turned 34-year-old Kevin Durant into: Cam Johnson Ziaire Williams 2023 PHX first 2025 PHX first 2025 NYK first 2025 MIL first 2027 PHX first 2027 NYK first 2028 PHX first swap 2028 NYK first swap 2029 PHX first 2029 NYK first 2031 NYK first 2025 BKN second 2028 MIL second
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Erik Slater
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Feb 7, 2023
Asked Cam Thomas about him joining LeBron James as the two youngest players in NBA history to score 44 points in consecutive games: “That’s great company... I’m a Kobe guy though, so if you said Kobe I would’ve been a little more excited.”
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Erik Slater
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Oct 21, 2024
Liberty owner Clara Wu Tsai on the franchise’s first WNBA championship: “When we bought the team four years ago, they were playing at Westchester County Center to a crowd of 2000. And the first thing we wanted to do was bring the team to Barclays Center so that they could have a
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Erik Slater
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Jun 29, 2023
Harden, KD, and Kyrie have combined for 7 trade requests in less than two seasons. Historic numbers.
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Erik Slater
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Mar 7, 2025
Cam Thomas on whether he's changed his approach the last two games to average 6.5 assists: “Nah, I’ve been doing that. They’re just making it. That’s how assists are. I pass it and my teammates gotta make it, and they’re making it, so it goes on the stat sheet as an assist."
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Erik Slater
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Feb 4, 2022
Reality is James Harden wanted an easy ring. When he realized it wouldn’t be easy, he quit. He has a right to be angry with Kyrie, but this is next-level soft. Playing with Durant should be enough to win a title if he’s as good as he thinks he is.
Erik Slater
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Jul 8, 2024
Noah Clowney on the Mikal Bridges trade: "It's an opportunity for me. No shade to him, that's my dawg, I love him, but to see us going into more of a rebuild, that's an amazing opportunity for me, and I gotta try to take advantage of that."
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Erik Slater
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Feb 16, 2023
KD got noticeably choked up when speaking about his time in Brooklyn: "I built a family over there. They're always gonna be a part of my journey... I love those guys. I get emotional talking about them because that was a special 4 years of my career coming off an Achilles. They
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Erik Slater
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Oct 30, 2025
Michael Porter Jr. on the Nets' 0-5 start and what can change throughout the season: “I think it starts with the point guard spot. We have a lot of rookie point guards who are going to be great in this league for a long time, but they're still rookies... I think the point guard
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Erik Slater
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Feb 11, 2024
Dennis Smith Jr. reacts to Woj accidentally tweeting that the Nets traded him: “I got Woj tweets as alerts on my phone… I see my name pop up and I’m like, ‘Hell nah!’... My phones blowing up. I ain’t even get no pregame nap that day. I was sick.” 😂😂😂😂
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Erik Slater
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Nov 21, 2024
Ace Bailey on moving to New Jersey from Georgia: "I be looking for Waffle House. We be getting hungry late nights after the gym. Y'all ain't got no Waffle House!” 😂😂😂😂
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Erik Slater
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Mar 6, 2023
I asked Mikal about his approach given analytics not favoring the mid-range shot in today's NBA: “I know the analytics with the threes and layups, but we’re basketball players at the same time, we work on our games. Sometimes you can’t get to the rim, you just can’t. There’s a
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Erik Slater
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Mar 6, 2023
Jacque Vaughn when asked about his thoughts on Mikal Bridges' mid-range success: “We’ll keep looking at the percentages… I’m learning more about him, what shots he likes to get to. If they’re going in we love them, but we do wanna have a profile of really getting to the rim and
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