Free Agency Tour de Force

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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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 their cap space flexibility was used. We also have debates on the Jerami Grant contract, the Dillon Brooks contract, the Domantas Sabonis renegotiation and extension, and much more, including a live reaction to Miles Bridges taking the qualifying offer. Of course, there’s a big discussion on the potential futures of James Harden and Damian Lillard. Plus, why do John and Isiah Thomas apparently think so similarly?

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0:00.0	All right. Good Sunday, everyone. It seems like the trend of late has been for most of the stuff
0:05.7	to get done pretty quickly, although we still have the big potential trades out there.
0:10.5	Still got a couple of interesting free agent situations, which I'm sure John and I will get to.
0:16.2	But just generally, John, like, is this been like an interesting relatively pre-aging period, uninteresting?
0:22.7	How are you feeling about it?
0:23.7	Well, before we start, I have an announcement.
0:26.4	If I ever leave this podcast or decide to leave this podcast, I'm not doing it until right after you give Dan Feldman a five-year, $160 million contract in order to make me happy and get me to stay.
0:44.7	It might be slightly out of the budget, but I'm going to have to announce a price increase to $10,000 per year for the service.
0:58.0	So here's the thing on this one, right?
1:00.5	I think I'm definitely the minority here.
1:03.1	We'll talk more about Damon.
1:04.4	This is maybe a little bit of ancillary issue.
1:06.8	Even if I had known that Damien Lillard was leaving for sure, if I'm the Blazers, I still would have signed Jeremy Grant to that contract.
1:15.4	Really?
1:16.2	Yeah.
1:16.6	It's not that bad.
1:17.8	Really?
1:18.5	Like, I mean, the last two years, yeah, they're going to suck.
1:21.0	Like, you'll probably be in Marcus Morris land by the last year or two.
1:25.9	But I think that contract is eminently tradable for positive value.
1:30.7	And if I were the Blazers, I would rather have it on my books than not have it on my book.
1:34.9	Wow.
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