Mailbag! Value of Bigs; Hawks’ Future; NIL Effects and More

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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A mailbag from Twitter, including how these playoffs effect the value of bigs, John Collins and the Hawks’ long-term plans, how NIL rules will affect the NBA, whether Giannis made the right decision to stay in Milwaukee, how to value inefficient stars, and more. Nate’s podcast Dunc’d On has become Dunc’d On Prime, exclusively ad-free four days a week. Become a member! With @JohnHollinger and @NateDuncanNBA. Subscribe now via iTunes, RSS Feed, or search "Hollinger" in your favorite podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day.
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0:22.0	Welcome on to Holliger and Duncan and we've got a lot to get. You've got some great questions
0:26.1	on Twitter for a Twitter mailbag. We'll of course get to your speaker request questions
0:31.5	after an hour or so of the podcast, but glad to have you on board for the recording. And John, let's get started
0:39.7	here with a question from loyal listener, Date Nunkin, who wanted to get your...
0:45.9	I'm sorry, that name.
0:50.2	He wanted to get your perspective on the Kauai Leonard injury situation.
0:57.0	Now it's been announced that he has a partially torn ACL and head surgery to correct that yesterday.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	In doing reading on this, once I read about the injury, it seems like there is functionally very
1:10.0	little difference between
1:10.8	a partially torn ACL and a fully torn ACL.
1:14.4	For that reason, we could expect him to miss a big chunk of next season, if not the whole
1:19.5	thing.
1:20.5	And so I think it has pretty huge implications.
1:23.4	It also has implications for free agency, right?
1:27.1	Leonard might be more willing to sign a four-year extension.
1:31.2	He could opt into his contract, basically, and sign a four-year extension.
1:34.6	It might be more willing to do that now than some of the other alternatives that were out there.
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