Summer League Superlatives 2023

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

John and Nate lock in on everything that took place in Las Vegas during NBA Summer League, and answer the following questions: Who will be the best rookie this year, and who will have the best career? Who changed your opinion the most for the better? Most disappointing player “I nailed this one,” guys who looked exactly like you thought they would Who are you worried about? Best defensive player? Best rookie in the 2nd half of the first round? Best “sleeper,” i.e. 2nd round or undrafted? Best sophomore? “Too good for summer league?” Wish you were here Most overrated summer league? Most underrated summer league? Victory lap (prematurely) Looking rock solid, just going to be a solid NBA player Pick you totally didn’t understand that was confirmed Most enjoyable player to watch

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0:00.0	All right, welcome on to another edition of Summer League superlatives with John Hollinger.
0:07.9	I'm Nate Duncan, if you're a new listener.
0:09.8	What we're going to do here is talk about everything that we saw in Las Vegas.
0:13.8	John somehow stayed even longer than I did.
0:16.6	And looking forward to a full report on, oh, God, who's, I'm too far removed from it now, John.
0:23.4	Who's like a just ridiculous Summer League player?
0:25.7	A full report on Brady Manick's Summer League.
0:28.0	There we go.
0:29.2	Yes.
0:30.3	There it goes.
0:30.8	Is that good enough full?
0:33.2	Yeah, yeah, that was good.
0:34.7	It was nice to see him reemerge after living off the land in a yurt for five years.
0:43.4	All right.
0:43.9	Let's jump right into it here.
0:45.1	We just got a bunch of things we want to talk about.
0:48.2	And so what I want to begin with is just a question that's probably easier today than it would be most years. And that is who we think
0:56.2	after Summer League will be the best rookie, both for this upcoming season and then which rookie
1:02.0	will have the best career. Yeah, I think that's a pretty easy answer this year. I mean,
1:09.0	it's got to be Victor Wimbunyama. Even though he struggled that first game,
1:13.6	I mean, he was so good in the second one. And you can see all the things that made him such a
1:19.5	standout in France. There's going to be some adjustment for him, I'm sure, in terms of keeping
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