20 Questions About the Upcoming NBA Season

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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As we enter the dog days of summer, Verno and Jacoby bring 10 questions each about the upcoming NBA season. They go through everything from the recent string of contract extensions, Daryl Morey’s asterisk comments, LeBron James, Klay Thompson’s relationship with Megan Thee Stallion, Target Guy, and so much more. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch! (01:18) Q1: Rank the recent extensions: Bridges, Luka, and Fox (09:20) Q2: Which team do you think you will like more than others? (12:30) Q3: Who will be the 3-seed in the East? (17:40) Q4: Which rookie (not Flagg) do you want to watch the most? (19:18) Q5: Craziest prediction that probably won't happen (22:49) Q6: Daryl Morey is ____ for saying the people put an asterisk on the bubble title (26:54) Q7: Which is more likely for OKC: 55 or 65 wins? (29:00) Q8: Do you think ESPN pays attention to other broadcasts? (34:43) Q9: How will LeBron's season play out? (40:38) Q10: Could Jacoby's twins work the same job like the Thompson twins? (46:41) Q11: Will Joel Embiid ever be Joel Embiid again? (47:01) Q12: Which team in the West do you think will not be as good as people think? (49:18) Q13: Will Klay and Megan Thee Stallion last until the end of the season? (53:09) Q14: Which player do you want to see in person that you have not? (54:39) Q15: Will the Blazers make the play-in? (01:00:49) Q16: Who would you take the gamble on: Zion Williamson or LaMelo Ball? (01:02:44) Q17: Which NBA players were the most relevant at the National Sports Collectors Convention? (01:12:36) Q18: Who is the biggest football player in New York? (01:14:16) Q19: Will "Target Guy" have a podcast by the end of the season (01:15:18) Q20: Which player looks most wrong in their new uniform (01:16:36) Issues with Verno's stay in New York Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Jessie Lopez and Tucker Tashjian Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Miss Manchop, Chris Vernon, and joining me see this every Monday night
0:15.8	from The Ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby.
0:18.9	Verno, there's so much I want to discuss with him that is non-MBA, but we will save that
0:25.2	until the end of the pod because there has been a controversy in my family about your stay
0:30.1	at my home that has caused all kinds of problems between me and my wife.
0:34.8	Oh, no.
0:35.4	And we will get to that later.
0:37.1	Now I want to know what happened. You have done nothing wrong. You have done nothing wrong. Okay. She's concerned that we were bad hosts, and we'll put a pin in that. We'll get to that later. Okay. We'll get to that at the end of the show. We are going to do 20 questions about the upcoming NBA season. Things that have been on our mind, we are each
0:55.6	going to pose each other 10 questions. We will go through them one by one in quick fashion,
1:01.1	but we will try to cover, we are going to cover a myriad of topics with this. You start.
1:06.5	All right. This is full disclosure. This one is completely fake and fabricated.
1:11.8	It's just a way to get the latest news from the NBA into the 20 questions format.
1:15.7	So my question for you is, Berneau.
1:17.8	What do you think about the extensions of Bridges, Donchish, and Fox that have just recently been signed over the past week?
1:24.9	Okay, so if I'm ranking them, I would go, Donchich 1.
1:28.7	Oh, let me change mine.
1:30.5	Fox 2.
1:31.2	How would you power rank the extensions that we all knew we're going to happen,
1:35.0	but happened over the past week of Donchish, Bridges, and Fox.
1:38.3	I think I'd go, uh, Dantich 1, Fox 2, Bridges 3.
1:42.1	And this, and obviously that it's also by caliber of player.
1:47.2	You know, the Bridges one, he's a little on the older side of the players.
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