Would We Have Done the Harden Trade? What to do with KPJ? What Does a Scouting Database Look Like?

Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast

John Hollinger and Nate Duncan

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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John and Nate discuss whether they would have done the Harden trade at the price the Nets paid, how the Cavs and other teams should handle the volatile situation with Kevin Porter, Jr., we rule 2 teams out of the playoffs, and finally John discusses how NBA teams apportion their scouting resources. Nate’s podcast Dunc’d On has become Dunc’d On Prime, exclusively ad-free four days a week. Become a member! With @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.
0:10.6	All right, welcome on to Hollinger and Duncan.
0:13.3	And John, I feel on this Wednesday, January 20th, that a great burden has been lifted.
0:19.9	James Hardin was traded.
0:21.8	We don't have to talk about it anymore after today because, uh, hilariously, about what,
0:27.7	maybe 30 minutes after we recorded that trade actually went down.
0:30.9	There was plenty of dumb shit that we said, uh, that ended up not being true about said
0:35.4	trade, but I wanted to just get your opinion on what
0:38.8	the eventual package ended up being there.
0:41.4	Yeah.
0:41.9	I mean, Brooklyn basically gave up everything, right?
0:45.2	There was nothing that they could have put in the trade that they really helped back
0:49.2	asset-wise.
0:50.9	I mean, maybe, you know, they hung on to their seconds, I guess.
0:54.8	Yeah. And then they had to give up one of those due to the Lavert situation. Yeah, exactly.
0:59.8	And, you know, they had to give up Jared Allen. They had to increase their luxury tax position.
1:07.0	They had to give up every first round pick. Now, it was three picks and four swaps rather than the
1:12.5	opposite, I guess. You could say that. But they gave up plenty. And those unprotected future picks of theirs,
1:20.8	I mean, those are very vulnerable picks. If you look at the age of Irving, Durant, Hardin. I mean, the fact that they can leave and all leave in two years A, but even if they stay, what's that going to be like?
1:33.2	Yeah, I mean, this is going out to 2027 when Kevin Durant will be 39 years old.
1:39.6	And I mean, I think he's set up for some pretty decent longevity given his skill set.
1:43.9	Harden, I don't feel as strongly about.
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