Jaylen Brown’s Pippen Moment, Beef Stew Hype, Christmas Cards, and Are the Thunder Chasing History?

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Verno and Jacoby return as they recap the NBA Cup games from Tuesday and Wednesday night. They discuss the Thunder's continued dominance to start the season after matching the best 25-game start in NBA history, how the Spurs exploited the Lakers' defensive inefficiencies, and why the Knicks have a chance against the Magic. Next, the guys dive into their loves and loathes from the past week in the NBA. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch! (02:30) Western Conference NBA Cup recap (16:50) Eastern Conference NBA Cup recap (27:40) Verno and Jacoby’s no. 1 loves of the week (35:58) Verno and Jacoby’s no. 1 loathes of the week (42:00) No. 2 loves of the week (51:59) No. 2 loathes of the week (58:30) No. 3 loves of the week (01:03:20) No. 3 loathes of the week The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Jessie Lopez, Brian Waters, and Oscar De La Luz Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
0:03.0	And I am willing to do anything.
0:05.9	We will soon be at war.
0:07.7	You will have to take a side.
0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
0:10.3	What fun.
0:11.5	Or war with the Catholics.
0:12.9	None of us are safe.
0:14.4	Feels good to be bad.
0:16.0	The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.
0:18.5	Stream now.
0:35.4	Welcome to The Mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon.
0:36.0	Enjoy to meet you does every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. I'm still in sunny Los Angeles, Verno.
0:43.0	How has Los Angeles been? How long did you live there when you lived there?
0:47.0	Ooh, uh, seven years, six years, something like that. That's when Grantland was going on?
0:53.1	Grantland started, yeah. And so you lived out there for seven years and then you moved back
0:58.0	to the East Coast after that? Yes. Gotcha. Do you miss living in Los Angeles now that you have
1:05.4	visited Los Angeles? No. No. I would think like right now, especially on december 11th you would quite enjoy the weather
1:14.0	this is when usually people go out to the west coast and they're like why don't i live here
1:18.6	it's freezing where i live it's i'm very easy especially we've got like four kids like doesn't
1:24.8	really matter where i live now you know what i mean that's fair it's like your life's over anyway exactly who cares you've got like four kids. Like, doesn't really matter where I live now. You know what I mean? That's fair.
1:27.7	Your life's over anyway.
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