Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard; NBA Finals Outlook; News; MIA Offseason

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Wizards GM Tommy Sheppard joins to discuss how he approached the interim GM job, what the Wizards’ goals are as a franchise, reasonable expectations for next season, and the possible retention of Bradley Beal. Plus, Sports Business Classroom at the NBA Summer League where he’ll be a speaker again this year, sportsbusinessclassroom.com, code CAPSPACE for $300 off. Then Danny is on for one of our most comprehensive series previews to date for the NBA Finals. We struggled with this prediction more than maybe any in the history of Dunc’d On. We catch up on the latest free agency and draft rumors, and then the Miami Heat offseason. What are their chances of getting in on a big star? Who are targets for a lower-level trade of Duncan Robinson? Plus the free agencies of PJ Tucker and Victor Oladipo.

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0:00.0	All right, now I want to welcome on to dunked on Tommy Shepherd, general manager of the Washington
0:07.5	Wizards.
0:08.5	I will dispense with the honorifics because everyone knows who you are and our time
0:13.3	is short.
0:14.3	I want to talk to you as long as we can.
0:16.5	How you doing, man?
0:18.5	I'm fantastic.
0:19.5	I've been a monitor to be on dunked on.
0:21.0	I've heard this thing so many times that you're myself on there.
0:23.7	It's going to be really crazy, man.
0:25.4	I'm looking forward to it.
0:27.1	Well, thank you.
0:28.8	I appreciate that.
0:29.8	And I remember I was quite honored to know that you knew who I was back when I met you
0:35.7	at the first sports business classroom.
0:37.9	That's part of why you're on here to talk about that a little bit.
0:41.9	But obviously we need to talk a little bit about what's going on with the Wizards now.
0:48.9	This is, I think, now your third season as general manager about three years since you got
0:55.9	elevated.
0:56.9	Am I remembering that right?
0:57.9	Absolutely.
0:58.9	Yeah.
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