Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast
NBA analytics pioneer and front office insider John Hollinger joins Dunc'd On podcast host Nate Duncan to bring you the smartest weekly NBA podcast available. The Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show brings fans next-level analysis of the league, its teams, and its players. John and Nate take you behind the curtain for an unmatched insider look at every aspect of the NBA. From scouting reports to game breakdowns to salary cap analysis, there’s no better way for true basketball fans to follow the NBA.
Episodes
Nate and John run through a long list of potential trade candidates for what could be a seismic 2025 NBA offseason. They start with the two biggest possible dominos—Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant—and what their availability would mean for their current teams and potential suitors. From there, they cover a wide array of high-level trade options, including Lauri Markkanen, Jrue Holiday, and Jaylen Brown, as well as some lower...
John and Nate continue their series assessing veteran-extension candidates:
De'Aaron Fox – 0:21
Julian Champagnie – 9:55
Coby White – 11:24
Ayo Dosunmu – 11:24
Kevin Huerter – 15:06
Julian Phillips – 16:28
Darius Garland – 17:10
Craig Porter Jr. – 19:18
Dean Wade – 20:27
Kyrie Irving – 22:06
Daniel Gafford – 24:23
PJ Washington – 24:23
Rui Hachimura – 30:00
Dorian Finney-Smith – 31:10
Austin Reaves – 32:19
Norm Powell – 33:01
Karl-Anthony Towns – 4...
How did we get to a Game 7 in Denver vs OKC, and what will be the key factors in who wins?
Golden State petered out without Steph. What do they need to get back to contention and how does the restricted free agency of Jonathan Kuminga impact that? 6:44
Why did the Cavaliers fall short, and do they need to make major changes to compete in the East? 16:38
How will Boston navigate the franchise-altering injury to Jayson Tatum? 27:13
What...
John Hollinger joins Nate Duncan to catch up on all the action from the second week of the playoffs, plus discuss the Spurs hiring Mitch Johnson as coach and the Suns hiring Matt Ishbia as GM.
The rundown:
- Best team so far?
- How some of the big stars have played
- Our best and worst predictions
- The best and worst coaching adjustments
- Our most surprising and disappointing players
- The best and worst games
And the crucible, who survived...
Nate Duncan and John Hollinger break down the first week of the playoffs, including standout teams, superstar performances, the best and worst coaching jobs, surprising players, and early lessons from the playoff crucible
Who has been the best team of the playoffs so far?
Would we change our overall playoff predictions based on what we’ve seen?
The biggest change to our pre-series predictions after the first week.
Grading the superstar...
Nate and John take their unique look at the playoffs, discussing their picks for:
- Most interesting series
- Least interesting series
- Individual player matchup you are most interested in seeing
- Star player with the toughest matchup
- Star player with the easiest matchup
- Best coaching matchup
- Biggest coaching mismatch
- Series with the most variables
- Rotation players most likely to have their roles cut
- Deep rotation players who could emerge
- Most ...
John and Nate go over their awards agreements and disagreements on Executive and Not-Executive of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and All-NBA.
But first, they give their opinions on the NBA’s new European venture and discuss the future of the teams they think won’t make the playoffs. Plus, thoughts on Joe Cronin’s extension and the future of the Blazers.
- NCAA championship game
- Trivia
- Kevin Durant
- Joe Cronin
- T...
John Hollinger joins Danny Leroux and Nate Duncan to break down our rankings of the top players in the NBA. Jokic or Shai at number 1? Who takes the 3rd spot? Where do old lions Steph, KD, and LeBron fall, and how do they compare with the young superstar bigs? How about the bevy of star guards? Plus, we discuss the biggest risers and fallers, the hardest to rank, and the players we think could make us look stupid for having them so...
John Hollinger, who may or may not know anything about tanking, and Nate Duncan bandy about the best ideas they and listeners have for curbing the epidemic of tanking that has beset the league. We go through basically every viable idea, and in the end agree on FOUR things we’d try to implement immediately.
Then, we eliminate two teams from the playoffs and discuss where they’re going from here.
John and Nate look back at their picks with Zach Lowe from last year of which stars were most likely to change teams by the start of the 2025-26 season.
Then, the same exercise this year, as they pick which stars could be on the move between now and the start of the 2026-27 season.
They also discuss whether the Jazz being fined $100,000 will cause them to mend their tanking ways.
John and Nate discuss our coach rankings! What makes a great NBA coach, and how can coaches be evaluated? Then, we rank our top group of coaches in the league.
- Anjali Ranadive
- Domantas Sabonis
- Sacramento Kings
- De'Aaron Fox-Mike Brown
- Draymond Green/Karl-Anthony Towns
- Jalen Brunson
- Mark Cuban
- Payton Pritchard-Derrick White
- 3-1 lead
- 2005-06 SuperSonics
Nate Duncan and John Hollinger revisit the 2024 NBA trade deadline, re-evaluating the biggest moves, the teams that improved (or didn't), and the deals that didn't happen but should have. They also discuss the latest developments with Victor Wembanyama's health and San Antonio’s future.
OKC’s Stealth Salary Dump & the Gordon Hayward Trade (00:44)
- The Thunder’s move to clear salary space for Isaiah Hartenstein.
- Gordon Hayward’s und...
John Hollinger joins Nate Duncan to discuss the best and worst of the 2025 Trade Deadline. They hit on the biggest winners and losers, their single favorite and least favorite moves, which teams improved the most for this year, and the biggest trends from deadline season. Plus, our annual Shuffling the Deck Chairs award.
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John joins us for a special unplanned H&D in which he gives us his special front office insight on what went down in Dallas, plus our evaluations of the Fox trade.
On Luka:
- What the Mavs’ process was–and how it got circumvented
- Whether AD was the best they could have done to win now
- Whether it was a rational decision not to “shop” Luka
- Do we buy that Jason Kidd didn’t know this trade was coming?
- Nico Harrison’s comments about a 3-4 y...
John gives his unique insight on the De’Aaron Fox trade request, and we get into every aspect: How much do the Spurs value their young players like Devin Vassell and Stephon Castle? How much do the Kings value staying competitive, or getting their 2031 pick swap back? How much are Fox and Rich Paul going to step on the scales to get to San Antonio–and how much are the Spurs willing to go all-in on Fox as the guy next to Victor Wem...
John and Nate begin by analyzing the Nick Richards/Josh Okogie trade, and then John comments on the comments by the Warriors’ principals on the trade deadline.
The meat of the show is our discussion of teams we’ve concluded have no chance to make the playoffs this year, and what their next steps are to return to relevance. Brooklyn (11:32), New Orleans (20:37) , Charlotte (30:48), and Portland (38:48) are discussed.
John and Nate look at the Kings’ decision to fire Mike Brown and how De’Aaron Fox’s contractual situation relates. Then, a look at which teams could and should get involved on Fox.
The Jimmy Butler saga has taken over the media of late. What do we see as the end-game there? 27:09
The biggest non-star known to be available right now is the Nets’ Cam Johnson. Who are the potential suitors for him and what would be a reasonable price to...
The annual tradition continues, a Dunc’d On and Hollinger & Duncan crossover to rank the top-10 prospects in the NBA 23 and under.
Is Victor Wembanyama an obvious number 1? How can we sort through the injuries this year to find the rest of the top-10 among Paolo Banchero, Scottie Barnes, Franz Wagner, Jalen Williams, Anthony Edwards, Chet Holmgren, Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham, LaMelo Ball, and more? Is anybody in the 2024 draft eve...
The state of the league is a constant discussion point, so John and Nate went through and discussed the biggest criticisms and counterbalanced them with the biggest things the NBA is getting right at the moment, then ranked the biggest issues in both categories.
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Nate's presentation on fixing the charge
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Hawks getting fined for sitting a healthy Trae Young - 0:21
76ers/Joel Embiid - 5:38
Organization rankings - 9:05
Eliminating a team from the playoffs - 49:36
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