All Quiet on the Free Agency Front, The Gobert Gamble, and Summer League Excitement

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After the initial wave of signings, free agency has hit a stall as Verno and KOC discuss how the league is waiting for Kevin Durant to get traded (01:17). The T-Wolves traded for Rudy Gobert over the weekend, and Verno shares why he doesn’t like the trade for the Jazz while KOC defends the move and shares why Gobert will flourish in Minnesota (10:15). Staying with the Jazz, the guys discuss how Danny Ainge always manages to get what he wants and why the Gobert trade is all about Anthony Edwards (29:31). Also, the guys discuss the Malcolm Brogdon trade and share their excitement for going to this year’s Summer League (44:19). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Producer: Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, Rob Harvilla from 60 Solns that explain the 90s here to inform you that we are back
0:05.6	with 30 more songs because the 90s were super long and had a ton of rad music.
0:10.8	Please join us every Wednesday for more 60 Solns that explain the 90s only on Spotify.
0:30.2	Welcome to the mismatch I'm Chris Vernon and joining me is he does every Tuesday from the
0:34.0	Ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin Obama Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Candy,
0:47.4	everything was great.
0:48.2	We are going to be watching basketball in person later this week as the beginning of the
0:56.8	Las Vegas summer leave we will get to that here in a little bit but free agency did open
1:04.0	up last week.
1:05.4	We talked about the first round of free agency.
1:09.3	We are going to get to some of the trades that have taken place since we last spoke but
1:15.0	before that I just want to ask you what do you make of the initial wave and then everything
1:21.9	is really just calm down and it's like it's going to stretch out and it's like every
1:27.7	once a while I'll look at the list like hey where did that guy end up?
1:31.5	TJ Warren, you're on a Brooklyn.
1:33.5	We find that out this morning.
1:35.1	Right, where did that guy end up?
1:36.8	Where did that guy end up?
1:38.0	Like names that we had brought up or names that I had thought of and the answer is they haven't
1:43.8	ended up anywhere yet.
1:44.8	Right?
1:45.8	Like I was like hold on has there been any like Colin Sexton news that has come out?
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