What Keeps Contenders Up at Night, Brooklyn Pivots, How Execs Deal With Media

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We look at Brooklyn’s move with Kenny Atkinson, and why “deserve ain’t got nothin’ to do with it.” The media reporting around the move provides a good lens for Nate to ask John how executives deal with the media, particularly what they perceive as unfair reporting. Then a new feature born of Nate’s tossing and turning, what keeps contenders up at night. A look at the biggest issues the Clippers, Lakers, and Bucks face, plus a debate on whether the Thunder are a threat in the playoffs. Finally, eliminating two more teams from the playoffs, with a discussion of what we can take away from their seasons. With hosts @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.
0:11.8	All right, welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan.
0:14.4	A day late here, we apologize for that.
0:16.1	John was traveling at the Sloan Conference,
0:18.6	so we figured it was easier to take stock of things
0:21.9	on a Monday. And where I want to start is with what John wrote about this week. Well,
0:28.6	he writes about several things each week for The Athletic. Theathletic.com slash P.R.
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0:38.1	about that later but uh you wrote about Kenny Atkinson and Brooklyn moving on for him there
0:43.2	was some additional reporting from your colleague Shams Sharania today talking about some of the
0:49.3	behind the scene stuff that led to his ouster.
0:57.3	But what are your initial thoughts on hearing this?
1:04.2	I think, you know, there was, there was some stuff out there that maybe he wasn't the right guy for this team going forward.
1:06.8	I think the timing of it surprised people that happened now and not after the season.
1:10.0	When did, when you said there was some stuff out there, like when did that start becoming the things that you're hearing about?
1:18.6	I think.
1:19.9	The moment that KD. signed?
1:22.6	Well, a little bit.
1:25.2	Yeah.
1:25.5	You know, talking to people this weekend, because there obviously were a bunch of NBA people around in Boston,
1:31.8	it became more apparent to me that at least some people had a pretty good inkling that this was bound to happen at some point.
1:40.5	So that's what I would say for that.
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