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The Lefkoe Show

Chris Vernon (The Ringer) on NBA Title Favorites, The Buyout Market, and Grit and Grind Basketball | The Lefkoe Show

The Lefkoe Show

Bleacher Report

Football, Sports

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hey 33%ers, we know you're gonna love this guy: Chris Vernon (@chrisvernonshow), co-host of The Mismatch for The Ringer, talks about everything from his start in Memphis radio to his frustration with the NBA buyout market to his interesting theory on Ben Simmons' recent struggles. It's NFL offseason, and the NBA playoffs are just around the corner, so it's time to stock up on your hoops knowledge. But if you're missing the football chats, just remember we are back at the end of this week with the 6th installment of the NFL Draft Crash Course!

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0:00.0

How you living? How you feeling? How you doing? It is the lefkoe men and there are certain podcasts in my history

0:07.4

That the real listeners know are lost somewhere in the ether. They are in outer space

0:14.0

the famous golden gates episode with Sims back in the day will never find it. We don't know where it is and

0:21.4

It happened to get about a month ago

0:23.4

I had Chris Vernon on from the mismatch from down there in Memphis. He's an icon and

0:29.1

And we did an hour podcast. I started off by by saying his name in different ways

0:34.8

We talked about the way he came up and it got lost

0:38.4

It's somewhere amongst the stars in cosmic dust and for some fucking reason this guy decided to come back again

0:46.0

So I'm glad you came back. I was where you weren't gonna do it. I would tell you this if you weren't on TNT

0:52.0

There is no chance I'd be okay. Yeah, I mean you're famous now. So I mean like I'm famous

0:57.6

I'm talking to the guy who just got done the master's updates. I didn't even realize the timing lined up

1:04.3

I tested you this is like getting like LeBron after the finals

1:08.7

This was going on in the guest. What would you figure you figure out? I was gonna be doing Jimmy Fallon today instead

1:15.4

They didn't call

1:18.8

How did how did that whole thing start because it look? It's a beautiful radio bit

1:23.4

I just want to know the idea behind it. That's what it was. It was a radio bit and I I

1:29.5

would love to be able to have some great story of how it all started but we probably I guess it was about

1:37.5

10 years ago

1:39.5

um, and I guess I guess I just

1:43.0

I guess I just came up with that one line and I think it just

1:47.3

Basically started with that's what's going on in Augusta and then I would kind of go through the leaderboard

1:54.2

And then it's evolved more and more over the years, but yeah, I mean like we when I I would guess I

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