Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

By John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

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NBA analytics pioneer and front office insider John Hollinger joins Dunc'd On podcast host Nate Duncan to bring you the smartest weekly NBA podcast available. The Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show brings fans next-level analysis of the league, its teams, and its players. John and Nate take you behind the curtain for an unmatched insider look at every aspect of the NBA. From scouting reports to game breakdowns to salary cap analysis, there’s no better way for true basketball fans to follow the NBA.

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The Topics of May

05.25.2023

With Boston winning Game 4, what are their chances against Miami? What is going to happen with all these prime coaching vacancies and prime coaches available? We assess the quality of the openings and the candidates. Plus, what do we ...

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05.25.2023 The Topics of May With Boston winning Game 4, what are their chances against Miami? What is going to happen with all these prime coaching vacancies and prime coaches available? We assess the quality of the openings and the candidates. Plus, what do we ...
05.17.2023 Lottery Madness How do John and Nate feel about San Antonio as a landing place for Victor Wembanyama? What should they be trying to do to build around him? In the rest of the lottery, which picks might be available in trade? ...
05.05.2023 2023 Playoffs Week 3 John and Nate discuss the key news of the week, with Mike Budenholzer being fired in Milwaukee and Dillion Brooks being told he will not return under “any circumstances” in Memphis. Then, a look at all 4 second round series ...
04.27.2023 2023 Playoffs Week 2 With all series through 5 games, John and Nate discuss the Bucks’ collapse, whether this season is indeed a “failure,” and hit on where the Bucks can go from here. Plus grading the playoffs so far for various superstars around ...
04.14.2023 The 4th Annual Playoff Extravaganza John and Nate look ahead to the playoffs and discuss Most interesting series Least interesting series Individual player matchup you are most interested in seeing Star player with the toughest matchup Star player with the easiest matchup Best coaching matchup ...
04.07.2023 Top-10 Players in the NBA For the first time, John Hollinger joins Nate to rank the top-10 players in the NBA. Where do Embiid, Giannis, Steph, KD, Jokic, LeBron, Tatum, and Luka come in? There are significant disagreements at the top on how to weight ...
03.31.2023 The Playoff Field is Set in Our Minds John and Nate predict the playoff field, but really use the exercise as an excuse to discuss where the 5 teams they are ruling out of the playoffs are going from here.
03.17.2023 Coach Rankings 2022-23 It’s time again to look at the coaching profession and decide which coaches we’d want coaching our team for the next 4 years. It’s a tough year to evaluate coaching with some of the best coaches having down years and ...
03.01.2023 Contender or Pretender?
02.12.2023 We Aren’t Done With the Deadline John provides his front office insider perspective on the drama with Gary Payton II’s failed physical and the 4-team trade. Then we discuss the biggest overall trends and takeaways from this deadline, including why the prices for players have gone ...
02.10.2023 Trade Deadline Extravaganza Sneak Preview John and Nate discuss everything they can on the deadline. The front office perspective on the Suns/Nets trade, the biggest winners and losers, which teams improved the most this year and in the future, our favorite and least-favorite moves, and ...
02.02.2023 Big Questions for the Deadline Using the Mock Trade Deadline as a guide, John and Nate discuss the values for the key players going forward at this deadline. Who would be the ideal target for the Bucks? Which team that isn’t really being discussed could ...
01.26.2023 Trade Deadline Draft John and Nate draft all of the teams in the NBA in order of the greatest likelihood to make a significant move at the trade deadline, with plenty of analysis on each team's chances of shaking things up.
01.12.2023 [Better Audio] Who Are the Future Hall of Famers? John and Nate review the resumes of active players that we think are more likely than not to be Hall of Famers, including locks if they retired tomorrow, borderline vets, players on the path, and also select young stars just ...
01.11.2023 Who Are the Future Hall of Famers? John and Nate review the resumes of active players that we think are more likely than not to be Hall of Famers, including locks if they retired tomorrow, borderline vets, players on the path, and also select young stars just ...
12.31.2022 The Top Prospects in the NBA 2022-23 John, Danny, and Nate rank the top prospects 23 and under in the NBA. Which of these players would we most want on our franchise for the rest of their careers? We also rank which players were hardest to rank, ...
12.16.2022 "Real Good" Podcast: Creating a Player-First Business Model with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert
12.14.2022 Lower-Tier Organization Rankings 2022-23 The last 10 teams in our organization rankings, plus which teams were the biggest risers and fallers over the past year, which organizations are the most over- and underrated, which were hardest to rank, and the organizations with the most ...
12.07.2022 H&D: Mid-Tier Organization Rankings 2022-23 John and Nate continue their organization rankings with some major disagreements about teams in the mid-pack. Why are the Bucks not top-tier despite winning a championship? How do we reconcile the huge plusses and minuses from the Pelicans? How about ...
11.25.2022 H&D: Organization Rankings 2022-23; Seth Partnow is Joining Dunc’d On! John and Nate go through their top-tier organizations, trying to make sense of the myriad changes in the league and its teams over the last year. What ownership and management would we want running a team that we were a ...
11.17.2022 One-Month Season Prediction Mulligans John and Nate look back at their season predictions and take some mulligans on their worst efforts. Then each ranks their top-3 predictions that most needed a re-do.
11.03.2022 Time to Panic?!?!?!?!? The Brooklyn Nets embarrassment continues with Kyrie Irving’s anti-semitic controversy and the hiring of Boston’s suspended coach Ime Udoka. On the actual basketball floor, is it time to panic for the Nets? How about the 3-5 defending champion Warriors? John ...
10.19.2022 Extension SZN; Notable Season Predictions John Hollinger and Nate Duncan discuss some absolutely fascinating extensions completed over the last week, including Kevin Porter, Jr., DeAndre Hunter, Nassir Little, Jordan Poole, and Andrew Wiggins. Then John explains his pick of the 76ers to win the championship, ...
10.13.2022 H&D on Prime Teaser: the Draymond Suspension and Dan Feldman's Daily Duncs Why John would have suspended Draymond, and why Nate wouldn’t have. Plus, the Thursday Daily Duncs.
10.05.2022 Wemby Stadium We recap the enthralling Victor Wembanyama vs Scoot Henderson showdown in Vegas. Are these guys generational prospects? Then a breakdown of the Tyler Herro extension in Miami, followed by a breakdown of the best and worst offenses in the NBA. ...
09.28.2022 Hollinger & Duncan is Moving to Dunc'd On Prime!
09.21.2022 Sarver Gone; C’s Knees; CBA Negotiations With Robert Sarver starting the selling process, it is clear that the NBPA is the most powerful union in sports now. What else can we take away from this sordid tale? An epidemic of knee injuries has hit the NBA. ...
09.07.2022 How Good Are the Cavs? What’s Next for Utah? Who is the League’s Worst this Year? Plus more Mailbag.
08.31.2022 Which Rebuild Looks the Best; RJ Barrett Extension; Chet Injury; Mailbag John and Nate look at RJ Barrett’s extension in New York. Would we have done it, and what does it mean for the Mitchell trade? Is there an issue with players like Chet Holmgren playing in Pro-Ams? And how will ...
08.19.2022 Summer Mailbag 8.19.22 Tons of great questions from our listeners: LeBron’s extension, the playoff series that most changed our opinions on a player, why handshake deals for future legal contracts are considered cap circumvention, the effect of the Ben Simmons settlement, what would ...
08.02.2022 Summer League Prospect Extravaganza Nate and John watched dozens of hours of Summer League, and now convene to discuss some of the standout players, for good or for ill. Included: The best rookie Who changed your opinion the most for the better Most disappointing ...
07.21.2022 The Best and Worst of the Offseason First, a look at the Donovan Mitchell saga in Utah. Would we try to trade for him as the Knicks? And what dynamic will influence the negotiations? Then we go through the offseason and pick: Best Contract Worst contract Most ...
07.07.2022 LIttle to Discuss With a week to chew on it, we look at some of the trends augured by the Rudy Gobert trade. It looks like the KD saga is going to continue for some time. Why is that, and how long can ...
07.01.2022 KD Trades; Gobert Live Reaction; Murray Trade; Free Agency Reaction John and Nate go through each team and determine whether it would make sense for them to trade for KD, then try to figure out what will eventually happen. We discuss Kyrie’s destination, then pivot to a live reaction to ...
06.21.2022 The Highest Upsides in the 2022 NBA Draft A slightly different angle on draft discussion, as we talk the highest upside players in the draft. Nate and John have two different players as the top-2 upside guys. We also discuss the considerations for the Sacramento Kings as they ...
06.15.2022 Veteran Extensions 2½ Part Deux Yeah, people don’t listen to the sequel as much as the original, but we’ve got more veteran extensions to discuss! Dillon Brooks, Caris LeVert, Jaylen Brown, Christian Wood, Larry Nance, Seth Curry, Jerami Grant, and more headline this week’s episode.
06.08.2022 The Key Veteran Extensions of the Summer With the decline of cap space and free agency, much of the key action revolves around veteran extensions. Tons of players are up for them, from KAT to Devin Booker among young stars, LeBron James and Damian Lillard among older ...
06.01.2022 The Most Interesting Players This Offseason We start with a recap of the playoffs, our predictions, and what surprised us. Then a look ahead to the Finals and more predictions. Then the main event, as we pick our most interesting players of the offseason and discuss ...
05.26.2022 Nuggets Big Loss; Grizz Offseason; Conference Finals Takeaways John shares his reporting on some of the details of Tim Connelly moving to the Wolves and we discuss what to make of this from the Minnesota and Denver sides. We catch up on the conference finals, and pick the ...
05.16.2022 Lessons of the Second Round What’s next in Phoenix and Philly after very disappointing ends to the season? How should they handle the impending free agencies of Deandre Ayton and James Harden? Are they doomed to repeat these seasons if they run it back, or ...
05.11.2022 Bucks/Celtics for the NBA Championship? Playoffs Week 4 The 1 seeds restored order in their respective series. How did they do it and how can the 4s respond? Is Golden State playing at a championship level right now? And is this Bucks/Celtics series going to determine the NBA ...
05.05.2022 Suns Scorch Luka: Playoffs Week 3 Will the Suns ever cool off after their complete destruction of the Mavs and Luka Doncic in Game 2? What will be the next adjustment in the Boston Milwaukee series, which feels like it’s already been 4 different series in ...
04.27.2022 Revenge of the Defenses A number of stars have had really disappointing playoffs so far–is defense back? Is there any hope to keep Jaren Jackson out of foul trouble? What will happen to the Sixers and Wolves going forward? And who is our predicted ...
04.21.2022 2022 Playoffs Week 1 Are Phoenix and Milwaukee sunk with the Booker and Middleton injuries? Who is the favorite now? What have been the best coaching adjustments? And the most surprising and disappointing players?
04.14.2022 Playoff Extravaganza A different approach to the playoffs, in which John and Nate discuss: Most interesting series Least interesting series Individual player matchup you are most interested in seeing Star player with the toughest matchup Star player with the easiest matchup Best ...
03.31.2022 Future Rankings 2021-22–Part 2 We get to the talented young teams with upside like Toronto, Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, plus rebuilding teams like Detroit and Houston. Which team would we most want to be a fan of for the next 5 seasons, based on ...
03.23.2022 Future Rankings 2021-22 Which team would we most want to be a fan of for the next 5 seasons, based on their talent, upside, coaching, organization, and market? How much do we value present vs future? How about good teams that may not ...
03.16.2022 Trade Deadline Retrospective 2021 A look back at the 2021 trade deadline. What did we think at the time, and how has our opinion of these moves changed based on the events of the past year and change? Included: the Nikola Vucevic trade, the ...
03.09.2022 Coach Rankings 2021-22, Part 2 The second half of the league still has some pretty good coaches, indicating the profession is in a pretty good place. Plus we rank the best developmental, playoff X’s and O’s, best system, and more.
03.02.2022 Coach Rankings 2021-22 The best NBA coaches in 2021-22

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