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Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

The Best and Worst of the Offseason

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6853 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

First, a look at the Donovan Mitchell saga in Utah. Would we try to trade for him as the Knicks? And what dynamic will influence the negotiations? Then we go through the offseason and pick: Best Contract Worst contract Most surprising contract Best minimum signing Best Exception signing Boom or Bust? Most impactful signing for 2022-23 Most impactful long-term signing Best under the radar signing

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, John, it has been two weeks. Our title of our last episode on July 6th was

0:07.2

little to discuss. We're going to have to get creative, I guess. Yeah, in terms of

0:16.0

transactions, not much has changed. I'm sure we will talk a little bit about Summer League later.

0:20.4

I'm still doing a bunch of my film on that.

0:22.4

That may be a future episode here.

0:24.5

But the biggest news to come down since we last talked is it seems like, lo and behold,

0:29.5

shockingly, the Jazz actually are listening to offers on Donovan Mitchell,

0:34.6

and the Knicks are supposedly the team they are most engaged with.

0:38.3

The Knicks can beat really any realistic suitor.

0:42.5

But what do you think just in general of Donovan Mitchell as a trade asset, as a trade piece

0:49.2

and the price that he should fetch in a vacuum given where some of these other deals that have been of

0:56.4

late. So it's interesting because on the one hand, he's an all-star in his 20s under contract, right?

1:03.8

Those three things rarely come together. Yeah, when's the last time a 25-year-old all-star who

1:10.2

wasn't Ben Simmons with three years left on his deal was available in trade?

1:14.7

I mean, basically, I don't think that's ever happened that I can recall.

1:18.3

Yeah, Paul George was a bit older.

1:20.7

Yeah, and that would probably be that.

1:22.0

Kyrie had two years left.

1:24.3

Was about the same age in 2017.

1:28.0

You know, there's been a couple of guys with two years left on their deals, but nobody with

1:31.9

three years that I can recall who, sorry, Ben Simmons is actually a real All-Star and is not

1:39.3

insane and isn't afraid to shoot a lay-up.

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