10 Observations About the 2025-26 NBA Schedule

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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After dissecting the entire 2025-26 NBA schedule, Verno and Jacoby share 10 observations they have about the national TV breakdown, Michael Jordan's role on NBC, Rivals Week, late games on the East Coast, and more. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch!(01:05) Observation no. 1: National TV partners and broadcast teams(10:38) Observation no. 2: How will NBC use Michael Jordan?(14:58) Observation no. 3: Teams and players the NBA is getting behind (and the ones they aren’t)(24:57) Observation no. 4: Last-day-of-the-season matchups(26:22) Observation no. 5: NBA Rivals Week(34:04) Observation no. 6: Late-season MVP matchups(37:41) Observation no. 7: Players returning to face their old teams(47:01) Observation no. 8: 11 p.m. East Coast games(48:40) Observation no. 9: Rookie watching(52:41) Observation no. 10: The dissemination of the Eastern Conference and strengthening of the Western Conference Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Jessie Lopez and Tucker TashjianSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon.
0:14.1	And joining me as he does every Thursday night from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby.
0:17.7	Jacobi.
0:18.9	We have actual mid-August NBA news, like real
0:24.1	tangible things to discuss on August 15th. We would typically record at the beginning of the
0:29.5	week, but we knew that the NBA schedule was going to drop in total at the end of the week.
0:35.9	So we saved this so we could give our reactions. It is fun to think
0:40.7	about an upcoming season. And once you see the schedule all laid out and you see when these
0:46.3	teams are going to be playing against each other, obviously a lot of things to come to mind.
0:50.2	So we are going to give 10 observations from the 2025-26 NBA schedule dropping.
0:58.4	I will start. Jacoby. This is going to be a much different viewing experience than we have ever
1:06.7	had in our entire lives. You and I grew up at a time where I would VHS record on tape the All-Star
1:19.8	weekend and then like watch it throughout the year, right? I watched the replay on a VHS. And then there would be a game here, a game there.
1:29.3	Obviously, you'd get the NBA finals.
1:31.4	Michael Jordan was the biggest athlete in the world, you know, in those mid-90s.
1:36.1	And now-Marv Albert, a lot of Mar-Valbert.
1:37.9	And I think about a lot of this through the prism of me now having a son that cares greatly about the NBA.
1:47.6	And it really does give you the old man vibes when you're like, back in my day, there's
1:53.3	like one game. Like you are lucky to see an NBA game because he is now going to live in this
1:59.8	generation where starting this season,
2:04.6	there is going to be an NBA basketball game, assuming you pay for a myriad of products,
2:11.9	there is going to be an NBA basketball game nationally televised every single day of the week.
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