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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

NBA: The Worst Contracts; COVID19 w/ Ben Taylor: Lockdown Economics, Virus Back in China, World and USA News

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny discuss the worst contracts in the NBA and hit the latest league news, including that NBA players may have 25% of their salaries put in escrow.   Then (37:11) Ben Taylor is back to hit on whether locking down is best for the economy, the news that China’s Henan province appears to have a virus resurgence, and the evolving situations in India and Ecuador. Ben and Nate also discuss the latest news regarding the effects of physical distancing in late-moving states, and the staggering unemployment numbers. 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. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:12.0

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0:17.9

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0:19.5

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0:23.3

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0:25.5

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0:33.0

And if you missed it my mom was on the party yesterday talking about a COVID-19 insurance issues and

0:39.1

After this segment with Danny is over Ben Taylor and I have our usual breakdown. He's on three days a week

0:45.5

So Danny and I we're gonna talk here about the worst contracts in the NBA

0:49.9

It's been about a year. I think since we did this

0:52.6

So how do you want to frame this discussion? A notable takeaway for me was that the worst contracts are less bad now

0:59.7

Then they have been at certain moments and there are a couple big reasons why one is the summer of 2019 was just a pretty

1:06.6

Teppid one in terms of truly awful contracts

1:09.3

There's something that might get there to be sure but that they are they haven't soured this quickly and also remember

1:14.6

There was there wasn't as you know as much money to go around the like the best players ended up like

1:19.4

Kauai kind of waiting a little bit and changing the market a little bit

1:22.7

So a lot of the worst contracts this year are the same ones last year

1:26.5

But now they have one less year on them and so that's better

1:28.9

I guess ostensibly a few have changed by circumstance and all that but I would say overall to me the you know

1:34.8

The way that we generally define terms here is it's kind of how underwater is the contract

1:39.6

So how much is the player worth how much is he getting paid and then you it's over the course of the full life

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