Playoff Seeding Remains Uncertain With Three Days Left in the Regular Season. Plus: Udonis Haslem Plays Basketball, and Looking Forward to the Hall of Fame Ceremony.

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Verno and KOC are back talking about all the crazy matchups and movements in playoff seeding and the uncertainty going into the last three days of regular-season basketball, including the implications on the Western Conference play-in of the Suns' win over the Trail Blazers on Thursday night (0:31), and the tough first-round matchups that could cause upsets in the Western Conference, with the Warriors, Lakers, and Trail Blazers at the bottom of playoff contention (18:45). Then they get into the Eastern side of things with Boston clinching the seventh seed for a home game in the play-in tournament (26:56), and how Miami could upset the balance in the East as it peaks at just the right moment (33:29). Finally, they talk about Steve Kerr voicing support for the play-in tournament (44:25), the mess that is the Sacramento Kings (48:18), Matisse Thybulle playing himself into being the third-most-important player on the 76ers (56:48), and their memories of those who will be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame this weekend (1:01:42). 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	On R2C2, CCC Sabathea and Ryan Ruko guide listeners through everything going on in the MLB, NBA, and NFL.
0:06.9	They also talk to friends, athletes, and celebrities about the world of sports, and much more.
0:11.2	Check out R2C2 with CCC Sabathea and Ryan Ruko on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.2	Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me is he does every Friday from theRinger.com.
0:35.3	It's Kevin O'Connor, AKA Kevin Obama, Kevin O'Conflict, Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Killian, Kevin O'Killian, Kevin O'Connor, what a day of NBA.
0:46.0	Well, this is now going to be a super exciting weekend because while we do have the 10 teams that are going to be involved in a playoffs or play in situation in both conferences,
1:02.3	there is a lot of seating still to be sorted out and that seating is going to matter a great deal.
1:09.7	First, by virtue of what took place last night, Sacramento losing at Memphis, that clinched a spot for San Antonio.
1:21.7	So that was the last spot in the Western conference to be clinched.
1:25.8	Congratulations, Sashia Sarrano.
1:28.0	Yeah, the first, the spurs are going to be there. And now all that is left to be decided is who is going to be the eight seed.
1:38.4	And that's going to come down to a game between the Grizzlies and the warriors on Sunday.
1:44.5	Regardless of what takes place in either of their games tonight, which I'd imagine they'll both sit their guys leading into the game on Sunday, given the schedules that everybody has had.
1:56.7	Post all star break and how much wear and tears on these guys.
2:00.6	They play the warriors play the Pelicans, the Grizzlies play the Kings and they are going to play in the afternoon on Sunday and whoever wins that game.
2:14.4	It doesn't matter who's a, you know, if they as long as they're within one game in the standings, which they will be after tonight, there's no way to separate them by more than one.
2:24.0	Then whoever wins that game is going to get the eight seed because they have played twice.
2:30.1	They've split and so Sunday will be the tiebreaker. So then they would end up tied if one of them was behind the other and likewise.
2:39.8	So anyway, that's all anybody needs to know that's going to be the eight.
2:42.6	But what is still Kevin in hanging out there is it might not be the Lakers.
2:51.4	That's the eight seed plays that blazer's suns game.
2:55.8	Oh my boy. Oh boy. Last night, suns blazers for those that were unable to see it, because it was late.
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