KD or Harden as Lead Guy; Porzingis’ Dallas Future; Jimmy Butler’s Extension and more Live Mailbag

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week’s live mailbag looks at whether KD or Harden could have won without another MVP next to them, whether the Mavs need to move KP even if it’s a minimal return, whether Miami should offer Jimmy Butler his max extension, whether the Mavs should bring back Tim Hardaway, Jr., and much more. If you like Dunc’d On, you or someone in your life might like my wife Aislinn’s analytical approach to yoga. Check out her streaming service, Yoga With Aislinn, free for a week. Subscribe to our new weekly mailing list for free bonus content and all the info you need to keep up with the latest from Nate and Danny! Get this show ad-free, plus another four episodes per week. Join us here! Get new bonus content as well like private Discord access, regular chats, our cap projections, subscriber mailbags, and more. Please read this letter about what you’ll get and why we are doing this, plus this FAQ for your more specific questions. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) and Danny Leroux (@DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0	Ricky you are on the air. Hey, I have a little tribute question to start for you guys
0:03.9	So if you count the play in game who is the most recent MVP that is not in this year's playoffs or has not been
0:12.6	Most recent MVP is not in this year's playoffs. Kobe Bryant. You got it. You got it back in 2008
0:20.3	It's kind of wild think that with D-Rose in there and LeBron still being at the peak for this long
0:27.2	Well, and I think what's not far Ricky. I think what's so impressive about that also is how important most of those players are to their teams like
0:35.0	This isn't just oh there a lot of them are hanging on and just around like Derek Rose is one of the most important players on the
0:40.8	Nick's right now
0:43.2	Derek Ruffin the next best player in the playoffs. That's how amazing is that thing about it's so wild
0:48.5	I mean they've all I think been the best point well, I guess Russ and deal that's debatable and then obviously
0:55.0	Whichever of Harden and KD you pick?
0:58.1	It gets you definitely pick KD I guess on the bets, but
1:01.5	Yeah, it's wild and speaking of the nets
1:04.6	I have a question for you guys like as basketball fans as fans of stories and narratives
1:09.9	How do you feel about having two MDPs on the same team like I'll have a problem with player environment or anything like that
1:16.9	But for a narrative standpoint
1:18.7	I would love to know if Harden or KD could win a championship without another MDP on their team and I feel like I'm never gonna get the answer to that question and it kind of
1:28.6	Bones me out. Well, I would argue that we've gotten the answer to that unharden
1:34.4	I think I think he has had enough chances to perform
1:39.4	Incredibly well in the playoffs and not being able to deliver and that's not simply just based on oh yeah
1:45.0	He's he hasn't won it. Therefore he can't win it. It's more based on the fact that in many of those cases like him underperforming
1:51.9	What you would have hoped for was a big reason why his teams failed and so I think at that point
1:58.5	They're just there isn't the evidence that he's capable of playing at the level in the playoffs to lead a team to a championship
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