Davion Mitchell, Payton Pritchard, and the Knicks Picks Shine at Summer League. Plus: Joel Embiid and Marcus Smart Sign Extensions and Memphis Sends Patrick Beverley to Minnesota.

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Verno and KOC start with all the news and movement around the league. First they dig into Joel Embiid’s supermax extension with the Philadelphia 76ers (0:30) and Marcus Smart’s four-year extension with the Celtics (11:30). Then they get into the Grizzlies-Timberwolves trade, which sent Patrick Beverley to Minnesota and Jarrett Culver and Juancho Hernangomez to Memphis (21:23). Finally, Summer League is coming to a close, so Verno and KOC touch on the upcoming championship game between the Celtics and Kings (34:25), discuss the team they think should be the happiest coming out of Vegas, the Knicks (38:54), and examine Luka Garza’s two-way deal with the Pistons (47:18). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The press box is here to catch you up on the latest media stories hosted by Brian Curtis and
0:04.6	David Schumaker. These guys have the insight on the biggest stories you care about.
0:08.6	Check out the press box on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:26.4	Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me is
0:28.5	he does every Tuesday for the wringer.com. He's Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomer,
0:31.6	Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Cameram, Kevin O'Candy,
0:35.2	and Kevin O'Blazerian, Kevin O'Bono. He said, oh, concert in there. I was out one.
0:41.7	Oh yeah. First one since November 2019. So Mount Joy,
0:48.4	the last show I had went to was Mount Joy at the will turn in Los Angeles in November 2019.
0:53.9	This show was Mount Joy at the Creek Theater in LA. It's been a little long time since you got
0:59.7	to use the O'Connor nickname, but it felt good to hear it after show in here for me today.
1:04.4	I'm glad that you got to go. We have a ton of news. We were not suspecting so that there would be
1:11.8	this much news. Of course, there is a summer league championship that is going on tonight.
1:16.1	We'll recap some of the stuff from summer league, but a lot of NBA news has hit as of the time that
1:22.7	we are recording on Tuesday morning. Most recently, there's been a trade that we will get to, but before
1:29.9	that news came down this morning that Joe L. M. B. had signed a Supermax extension with the Philadelphia
1:38.8	76ers. It was announced that he signed a four year, $196 million Supermax deal that'll keep him
1:50.5	with the 76ers through the 2026 27 season. The deal guarantees M. B. The total of $261 million
2:02.5	because he was already set to make $65 million in the next two seasons under the current terms
2:10.0	of his deal. So this is going to make Joe L. M. B. a very, very rich man. Of course, he finished
2:17.2	second in the key MVP voting last year to Nicola Yokecch. And he was already signed through 22, 23,
2:25.9	but he was eligible for this Supermax. And they gave it to him. And so what do you think?
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