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The Mismatch

The Ringer

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4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Verno and Jacoby return to discuss the latest injury update on LeBron James before diving right into their loves and loathes from this past week. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch! (00:37) LeBron James injury update (05:44) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 1 loves of the week (22:45) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 1 loathes of the week (32:17) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 2 loves of the week (39:12) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 2 loathes of the week (43:54) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 3 loves of the week (53:56) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 3 loathes of the week (58:02) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 4 loves of the week (01:07:29) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 4 loathes of the week (01:13:00) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 5 loves of the week (01:20:17) Verno's and Jacoby’s no. 5 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 and Stefan Anderson Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.3	And joining me as he does every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby.
0:47.0	Jukovirno.
0:49.3	We had a ton of games on Wednesday night.
0:51.4	Only one game in the association this evening.
0:54.8	We will not be giving live updates on the Suns Clippers match.
0:58.9	Oh, and I know that the listenership is going to be super disappointed about that.
1:03.1	We do have some news to get to.
1:04.8	The first big news is LeBron James.
1:08.1	Tell me what I need to know.
1:10.6	He's a basketball player who's now playing basketball, apparently, and he's going to be re-evalued in one to two weeks from his sciatica thing. And they say that he's, you know, looking at doing basketball activities, which is always something I loved here. I was more specifically. Like, what are dribbling? I don't know. And five on five. And he's not going on their road trip with an eye on him returning after that.
1:30.8	But, you know, seven and two Lakers are looking pretty good without him.
1:33.0	The Lakers have had a great thing going.
1:35.6	And so now, you know, inevitably, we're going to get the drama, right?
1:39.8	If he comes back and Austin Reeves is not what he does.
1:45.0	Well, Luke has been amazing.
1:47.5	Reeves has been amazing.
1:48.9	The team's been popping the ball around.
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