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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Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast episodes:

04.09.2024
Zach Lowe: The Stars Most Likely to Change Teams
Zach Lowe joins John and Nate to draft the star players we think are most likely to be on another team 18 months from now at the start of the 2025-26 season. Plus, John and Nate set the playoff field in...
03.29.2024
The Top-10 Players in the NBA 2023-24
A special 3-man pod with John, Danny, and Nate discusses the best players in the NBA. Where do Giannis, Jokic, LeBron, Shai, Steph, Luka, Tatum, KD, Kawhi, Edwards, AD, Brunson, and the rest of the All-NBA talents come in on...
03.14.2024
The NBA’s Best Passer, Dunker, Floater, Handle, and Athlete
John and Nate pick the NBA’s best passer, dunker, floater game, handle, and athlete. Then we rule an Eastern Conference team that doesn’t have their draft picks from ‘25 to ‘27 and will be looking to trade a point guard this...
02.29.2024
Coach Rankings 2023-24 Part 1
It’s time to look at the best coaches in the NBA. What are the ways to evaluate a coach? How do the young wunderkinder stack up against the established playoff coaches? John and Nate look at the best coaches in...
02.14.2024
Revisiting the 2023 Trade Deadline
John and Nate look back on perhaps the biggest trade deadline ever to evaluate all these transactions a year on. How do the KD and Kyrie deals look, and would we have still done them as both teams? Who won...
02.02.2024
Is There Too Much Offense? And How to Fix It
01.23.2024
2024 All-Stars, Would We Have Done the Siakam Trade?
John and Nate start by discussing the pros and cons of the Siakam trade. Would we ultimately have done the deal knowing his likely contract expectations? Then, we scrape the bottom of the Joe Johnson Memorial Barrel to fill out our...
01.17.2024
Why Are Bad Teams So Bad? And the Minnows of the Trade Market
John and Nate discuss: The Memphis Grizzlies’ future now that injuries have officially wrecked their season. Theories on why this year’s bad teams are worse than any other year’s bad teams. What the Knicks might be looking for with Quentin Grimes available and...
01.05.2024
The Big Fish of the 2024 Trade Deadline
12.28.2023
G-League Showcase and Trade Scuttlebutt; The Futures of the Spurs and Hornets
John reports back from the G-League showcase. Who stood out among roster players and the G-League Ignite? Then we rule 2 teams out of the playoffs (guess who!) and discuss what their struggles this season mean for their futures. Finally, we start...
12.13.2023
NBA Organization Rankings Part III 2023-24
The "Piñata Tier," as John likes to call them, is the subject of our final installment of the organization rankings including the bottom 12 teams. John and Nate examine each team’s organizational resume and determine which they’d most (and least)...
12.01.2023
NBA Organization Rankings 2023-24
A former executive and someone who will never be one are definitely the most qualified people to evaluate NBA organizations! But if we don’t do it, who will? We examine each team’s organizational resume and determine which we’d most want...
11.15.2023
Time to Panic?!?!?!?!????!!!??
John BLOWS OUT YOUR EARDRUMS with the panic alarm. Which front offices and fan bases should be DESPAIRING over their teams’ performance so far this season. But first, we take stock of the first couple weeks of NBA Cup play and...
11.01.2023
Why James Harden is in LA
The Sixers and Clippers stared each other down for 4 months, until a deal was finally done a week into the season. What changed to finally get this over the finish line? John and Nate also hit on how good this...
10.19.2023
Team Outlook Superlatives; Slippin’ Jimmy
John and Nate discuss the latest with James Harden leaving the Sixers and predict how the situation will play out. Then, a look at our picks for biggest over- and underachievers, our most difficult to predict teams this year, and our...
10.05.2023
Lillard, Jrue, and Harden
With the whole saga now in hindsight, John and Nate apply their 20/20 vision to how this worked out for the Bucks, Celtics, Blazers, and everyone who missed out on Dame and Jrue. Were the Bucks somewhat hoisted on their...
09.26.2023
Training Camp Eve
John and Nate look at the latest news, including Kelly Oubre’s signing in Philadelphia and whether it makes sense for the Pacers to trade Buddy Hield. Then, we continue with more great mailbag questions: Players we expect to have big leaps...
09.15.2023
Mailbag Du Jour
We start with the topics du jour: discussion of Team USA’s disastrous World Cup; the league’s new resting policy and its effects, Kevin Porter, Jr.’s arrest for domestic violence, Trey Murphy III’s injury, and the Lakers signing Christian Wood. Then, more...
08.31.2023
Late Summer Mailbag
It’s about time to find out what’s on our listeners’ minds via a late summer mailbag. We’ve got some great questions: What do we think of the Knicks lawsuit vs the Raptors? How about the NBA fining James Harden $100,000? How secure are...
07.28.2023
Summer League Superlatives 2023
John and Nate lock in on everything that took place in Las Vegas during NBA Summer League, and answer the following questions: Who will be the best rookie this year, and who will have the best career? Who changed your opinion the...
07.13.2023
The Best and Worst of Summer 2023
John and Nate review the signings of 2023 and pick: Best Contract Worst contract Most surprising contract Best minimum signing Best Exception signing Boom or Bust? Most impactful signing for 2022-23 Most impactful long-term signing Best under the radar signing And, most importantly, we pick...
07.03.2023
Free Agency Tour de Force
H&D: Free Agency Tour de ForceJohn and Nate discuss the big initial trends of free agency, focusing on the big cap space teams. How would we rank Detroit, Houston, Indiana, Oklahoma City, Orlando, San Antonio, Sacramento, and Utah for how...
06.20.2023
Debating the Beal Trade and the NBA Draft
John and Nate have quite different takes on the Bradley Beal trade, with John not being a fan and Nate liking it. Then a big discussion of the NBA draft as they each give their top-10 on their board. All...
06.07.2023
H&D: Veteran Extensions Part 33 1/3
John and Nate continue last week’s discussion as we cover all of the veteran extension candidates throughout the league, such as Anthony Davis, Donovan Mitchell, Jamal Murray, Dejounte Murray, Lauri Markkanen, Giannis Antetokounmpo, DeMar DeRozan, Klay Thompson, and more. We also...
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 think...
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? How...
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 through...
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 the...
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 Biggest coaching mismatch Series with the most variables Rotation...
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 sky-high...
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, and...
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 saw...
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, and...
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. Which...
09.28.2022
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Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast episodes:

Zach Lowe: The Stars Most Likely to Change Teams

The Top-10 Players in the NBA 2023-24

The NBA’s Best Passer, Dunker, Floater, Handle, and Athlete

Coach Rankings 2023-24 Part 1

Revisiting the 2023 Trade Deadline

Is There Too Much Offense? And How to Fix It

2024 All-Stars, Would We Have Done the Siakam Trade?

Why Are Bad Teams So Bad? And the Minnows of the Trade Market

The Big Fish of the 2024 Trade Deadline

G-League Showcase and Trade Scuttlebutt; The Futures of the Spurs and Hornets

NBA Organization Rankings Part III 2023-24

NBA Organization Rankings 2023-24

Time to Panic?!?!?!?!????!!!??

Why James Harden is in LA

Team Outlook Superlatives; Slippin’ Jimmy

Lillard, Jrue, and Harden

Training Camp Eve

Mailbag Du Jour

Late Summer Mailbag

Summer League Superlatives 2023

The Best and Worst of Summer 2023

Free Agency Tour de Force

Debating the Beal Trade and the NBA Draft

H&D: Veteran Extensions Part 33 1/3

The Topics of May

Lottery Madness

2023 Playoffs Week 3

2023 Playoffs Week 2

The 4th Annual Playoff Extravaganza

Top-10 Players in the NBA

The Playoff Field is Set in Our Minds

Coach Rankings 2022-23

Contender or Pretender?

We Aren’t Done With the Deadline

Trade Deadline Extravaganza Sneak Preview

Big Questions for the Deadline

Trade Deadline Draft

[Better Audio] Who Are the Future Hall of Famers?

Who Are the Future Hall of Famers?

The Top Prospects in the NBA 2022-23

"Real Good" Podcast: Creating a Player-First Business Model with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert

Lower-Tier Organization Rankings 2022-23

H&D: Mid-Tier Organization Rankings 2022-23

H&D: Organization Rankings 2022-23; Seth Partnow is Joining Dunc’d On!

One-Month Season Prediction Mulligans

Time to Panic?!?!?!?!?

Extension SZN; Notable Season Predictions

H&D on Prime Teaser: the Draymond Suspension and Dan Feldman's Daily Duncs

Wemby Stadium

Hollinger & Duncan is Moving to Dunc'd On Prime!