Best & Worst of the Offseason

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nate and John hand out their offseason superlatives across the NBA. They pick the best and worst trades, contracts, and minimum signings, and dig into what made those moves stand out. They also explore broader trends like the resurgence of bigs, the Rockets-Suns blockbuster, and the evolving financial pressures of contenders like Denver and Minnesota. Plus, a close look at the Thunder's strategy, a breakdown of restricted free agency, and their thoughts on Mike Brown landing with the Knicks. Timestamps: Best trades of the offseason, including Hawks/Pelicans and Heat/Clippers. 0:48 The league-wide return of size and physicality. 6:06 Cam Whitmore to the Wizards and Houston's rationale. 13:00 Washington’s overloaded roster of prospects and vets. 14:42 KD to Houston and how the Suns and Rockets made out. 16:51 Phoenix’s likely plan to waive and stretch Bradley Beal. 18:35 Denver’s financial outlook and the Cam Johnson trade. 21:32 Nikola Jokić not extending—should the Nuggets be worried? 23:45 Minnesota’s priorities: 32:13 Worst contracts of the offseason: 36:10 Sacramento’s puzzling offseason. 37:20 Thunder give Chet Holmgren the 25% max—did they have to? 42:14 Restricted free agent outlooks for Grimes, Thomas, Giddey, Kuminga. 45:18 Most surprising contract of the offseason. 48:11 Best minimum signings:. 52:05 Mike Brown to the Knicks—will it pay off? 54:17

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0:00.0	All right. We have much to discuss here, John. It has been a while since we have recorded, and that means we're going to get into our off-season superlatives now. Hopefully we...
0:12.8	Yes.
0:13.7	Yes. Hopefully we still have a degree of lucidity. More lucidity than we both possessed walking into the restaurant last night because...
0:22.5	Clearly, yes, yes.
0:24.7	We are both in the same city, though.
0:27.0	Yeah, we're in the same hotel, actually, but recording from different rooms because it's just actually easier to do it that way.
0:34.3	So what we're going to do here is just go through this off season and see what we think of
0:41.0	everything that has happened here and pick out some of the things that really stood out to us
0:46.8	the most.
0:47.7	So let's just get right to it here.
0:49.4	Let's begin with, and this, of course, has another component to it as well, but the best trade
0:56.7	of the offseason.
0:58.9	Well, obviously, the best trade was Atlantic getting the lottery pick from New Orleans
1:04.7	in return from 23rd and 13.
1:05.6	I thought you were going to say the Pacers getting Jay Huff.
1:11.2	Oh, yes, two can play after this game, yes.
1:15.6	I would have gone with Jay Huff if they had been able to extend his contract for more years.
1:22.9	Well, he's already on a minimum until the cows come out, basically.
1:27.9	Yes, yes, the Atlanta trade with the Pelicans.
1:32.8	I also had in the non-absurd division, Boston dumping Drew Holiday without having to give up any draft picks.
1:41.6	Yeah, although, I mean, that was kind of interesting that they then had to give up the two
1:45.7	seconds because of some stuff that was on Drew's medical.
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