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The Mismatch

Knicks Take a 2-0 Lead, Spurs-Thunder Head to San Antonio Tied at 1

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.75.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Verno and Jacoby return to react to the Knicks' Game 2 win over the Cavs and recap Spurs-Thunder Game 2. Then, they preview the remainder of each series, dissect the Giannis trade rumors, and look at the NBA All-Rookie teams. Welcome to The Mismatch! (00:00) Knicks-Cavs: NY takes Game 2 with 109-93 victory, Josh Hart 26 pts (09:31) Wave of Knicks fandom throughout the five boroughs (11:53) Ice-cold Cavs: Shooting woes continue, 35 percent FG in Game 2 (17:13) Knicks-Cavs: Worst of the conference finals, series ends in five (24:10) Thunder-Spurs recap: Physical WCF battle, turnovers kill Spurs (29:15) SGA 30 pts, 12-24 FG, OKC 34 Assists (second-highest in the playoffs) (34:15)  Wemby 21 pts, 10 pts in the paint (down sharply from 26 pts in Game 1) (43:47) Thunder vs. the World: Can the Spurs rebound in Game 3? (49:16) NBA All-Rookie First Team: Flagg, Knueppel, Edgecombe, Harper, and Coward (52:06) All-Rookie Second Team: Bailey, Fears, Murray-Boyles, Raynaud, and Queen (55:09) Giannis trade watch: Bucks open to offers (57:56) Jeff Van Gundy as the Blazers' next head coach? Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines. Protect your summer today at WeatherTech.com Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Stefan Anderson and Jeff Shearin Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the mismatch, I'm Chris Farnan, and joining me as he does every week from The Ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. Bruno, I don't know how to feel right now. I don't know how to feel. You should feel great. It's just weird. It's weird. Like, game one with the huge comeback, you can walk away from it being like, that kind of sucked. We should never be in that position.

0:38.4

I can't believe they put James Harden in front of Jaylen Brunton over and over again.

0:43.8

And this time I kind of feel similarly, like I don't like to criticize coaches because they

0:49.7

spend a lot more time and energy on their craft than I do.

0:53.2

But you can't just leave Josh Hart alone when he's hitting.

0:57.6

And they did it over and over and over again.

1:00.5

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1:05.4

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1:09.0

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1:12.2

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1:17.1

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1:19.7

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1:21.2

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1:22.3

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1:28.1

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1:31.8

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1:37.5

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1:41.6

This is one of the things that we've talked about a lot when it was,

1:48.0

it's Rui Hachamura when it comes playoff time for the Lakers.

1:51.9

It more recently has been Alex Caruso, right?

1:54.7

There's going to be those guys that get abandoned.

1:57.9

They're going to be the open ones because of the extra attention that is paid to the

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