8 in 92 (Western Conference 12.19.24)

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

We finish up our mailbag look at the Western Conference with these and more great questions: MIN: Is the Wolves’ D back? MEM: What is Memphis’ new offense, and how does it work in the playoffs? 12:56 LAL: Do the Lakers add or tear it down? 24:58 LAC: Kawhi’s trade value, Harden vs Kobe 36:50 HOU: Should they be trying to upgrade this year? 49:48 GSW: For whom should they be willing to move Kuminga? Danny floats an intriguing name. 1:02:37 DEN: Breaking down the reports of their interest in Zach LaVine; Is Jokic the great player with the least help? 1:14:10 DAL: Who is the Mavs’ 3rd-best player? 1:26:35 Plus, we catch up on news.

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0:00.0	finishing out the week here on dunked on and dunked on prime doing a bonus third public episode this
0:07.2	week because we had top prospects and also we had to get through all these mailbag questions
0:11.9	which need to be public as well so wishing everyone a happy holidays and also want to remind
0:17.8	everyone to subscribe to our free newsletter with Dan Feldman's stuff
0:22.1	twice a week. He keeps up on all of the news around the NBA in very timely fashion. Yesterday
0:27.9	he talked about the nuggets and their desire to maybe trade for a score and the reaction to
0:34.6	the new All-Star format and the lack of celebration for the NBA cup.
0:40.6	This hornet's pretending to give a kid a PS5 and taking it away.
0:45.6	He also gets in even more.
0:47.8	One of the best things about that newsletter is he gets in even more to the Cap Minutia,
0:51.9	some of the stuff that just doesn't quite lend itself to podcast for him. So he had a nice segment on what the Pistons did to maximize their space
1:00.2	with Paul Reed. And they basically have managed to get $40,000 less than the absolute
1:07.6	maximum in-season cap room that you can have. So you showed how they did that.
1:11.8	That was really good as well.
1:13.0	So sign up for that.
1:14.0	Link to that is in the show notes.
1:15.5	And it is free.
1:16.2	All you need is your email address.
1:18.6	Where are we starting here, Danny?
1:19.6	We are starting with the Minnesota Timberwolves because we're going from the, we went
1:23.0	from the bottom of the alphabet to the top of the alphabet.
1:25.4	And so that left us with the wolves. They are 14 and 11 on the season, but a strong 6 and 3 since the last 15 and 60.
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