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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Re-Grading the 2019 Offseason (West)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Nate and Danny look back at the 2019 offseason for the Western Conference teams. How do teams like the Grizzlies, Lakers, Clippers and Rockets look with the benefit of hindsight? We assess the moves made and also assess our own grades of those offseasons to see where we went wrong. Dunc’d On is exclusively ad-free four days a 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

Hi, welcome back everyone. Just want to remind you we have a little lighter of a schedule this week

0:04.4

I'm only gonna do two episodes

0:05.9

But they're really fun once we usually do these as a way of holding ourselves accountable as well

0:11.0

It's just taking a look back at what some of the big moves that were made ended up doing to these teams and

0:17.8

There have been few more seminal summers in NBA history than the summer of 2019

0:23.2

So we're gonna start here with the West grades and Wednesday night

0:26.1

We will have the East re grades as well. So we'll go through we'll try to refresh your memory of at least the major stuff

0:33.1

We're gonna go through literally every transaction that each team did talk about what our grades were and what the rationale was

0:38.6

Initially and then see how those have changed and what it is both we or the teams were depending on

0:45.2

Or perhaps both

0:46.7

Depending on how it works out. So we can start with the Dallas Mavericks

0:50.7

Remember that they were kind of on the hook for

0:53.0

Potentially seeing if anybody was going to kind of shake out for them whether that was a high-end player like Kauai

0:58.6

Probably not or maybe a lower end guy like Danny Green. They ended up not getting anybody like that

1:02.8

The signed they added Seth Curry DeLon right via sign-in trade which they gave up two seconds for they drafted as a

1:09.8

Roby 45th they moved down a little bit to do that and then they retained

1:14.2

Porzingis, Maxie Kleiba, Dwight Powell with the opt-in extension, Doreen Finney Smith, JJ Berea and then hilariously

1:20.8

They lost Trey Burke in the offseason however they ended up bringing him back after that. Yeah, so a bit more color on those

1:26.6

Retaining porzingis that was a five-year max deal the 25% max Kleiba was in the

1:32.2

Four-year 36 million dollar range with the last year non-guaranteed

1:36.6

Powell's opt-in and extend the extension was three years 33 million that just kicked in for this year

1:43.8

Berea was the minimum and Doreen Finney Smith was a pretty good deal three years

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