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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Is the Bubble...Working? ATL, MIA, WAS Youngs

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

No positive tests in the bubble so far apparently.  Plus a rundown of injuries and absences and a look at the financial challenges for 20-21. Then, evaluating the season for every young player on the Hawks, Heat, and Wizards. Danny and Nate sum up where each player got better, what they have to work on, and where applicable give a rating for player’s improvement.  You can subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. Note that COVID Daily News is now a separate pod. Please subscribe to that show on its own feed via Apple, Spotify or RSS Feed, or by searching “Nate Duncan” in your podcast player. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Back to work here. Let's get started with a little bit of news to begin with. We

0:05.0

not get to all of it. And we got, of course, to the Southeast Division young players.

0:09.5

Danny, I, there are a lot of young players in the Southeast Division is doing a lot of

0:14.5

rebuilding, but it was a good chance to catch up on some of the lesser luminary players

0:20.1

in that division and see who we might like. But I think the place to start here is just

0:25.0

that it seems like the NBA has made it through this critical first period here. It's been

0:32.0

now six days, seven days, I think, since the last of the teams arrived on July 9th. No positive

0:38.0

tests inside the ball. We did. There were two that were caught in the quarantine period

0:41.9

in Orlando, but there's since the period where the players have started having close contact

0:47.2

with another, they have not had any positive tests. I don't know if we would get a discussion

0:52.1

of a positive test that was outside of the players necessarily, but yeah, a lot of players

0:56.8

still aren't necessarily there, but inside the public seems to be working, Danny.

1:00.7

Right. And that is the most important factor in terms of whether we actually get games

1:06.1

in what would be two weeks from when we record this. Be the first thing that's awfully

1:10.4

exciting for the two of us. And we're also starting to get some preliminary indications

1:15.8

on how the the league might try to handle next season. You and I both you know this

1:22.0

obviously far better with the COVID data news, but you and I both expressed significantly

1:26.2

more optimism about the viability of the Orlando bubble than the viability of the 2020

1:33.0

slash 21 season, which will not all occur in a bubble for a variety of reasons. Instead

1:36.7

would be primarily in home markets and travel and all that. And we started to get a little

1:41.8

bit of an inkling that maybe they would consider doing the season or these other complications

1:46.8

partially because there could be a very logical and unsurprising difference in gate revenue

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