Remembering Bill Russell, Tampering Unfairness, and Your Mailbag Questions

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Verno and KOC open the show by sharing their memories of NBA legend Bill Russell, who passed away over the weekend (01:02). As more charges of tampering continue in the NBA, the guys wonder if it’s time for the NBA to consider how they handle these charges (09:12). The guys open up the mailbag to answer your questions (15:12). Some of the topics they discuss include Zion Williamson’s impact, the best game the guys have watched live, wild trade deadline predictions for next season, the Hornets' future, and more. Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Producer: Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Charles Holmes, the Ringer Music Show, and I'm Cole Kushner from Dicec and Charles and I
0:05.2	are teaming up to create Last Song Standing, a new show where we determine an artist's single best
0:10.1	song by debating our way through their entire catalog. And for our first season, we're covering
0:15.2	Kendrick Lamar. We're talking good kids, pimple butterfly, Dan, Mr. Morale, the mix tapes,
0:20.4	the Lucy's, and the features. Listen to Last Song Standing on the Dicec podcast feed only on Spotify.
0:42.3	Welcome to the mismatch, of course, Vernon. Joining me see does every Tuesday for TheRinger.com
0:46.4	is Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomb, or Kevin O'Connor, or Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Connor,
0:50.1	Kevin O'Candy, and Kevin O'Bloosery, and Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Connor. What's up, man? How
0:56.4	you doing? Now to ton of news, we are going to get to a bunch of mailbag questions today.
1:01.8	But since we last spoke just a few things that have happened, the first is the biggest news. One of the
1:09.0	giants of the game, Bill Russell, passed away over the weekend. And I must say that I have been, I've
1:16.7	been delighted to see the retrospectives and so many people having an awareness of Bill Russell
1:25.7	in a way that it's unfortunate that when someone's passes, that you end up getting the greatest
1:31.0	awareness of a legend, but that's the way it works. And so as people are chronicling the life and
1:37.9	times of Bill Russell, it's truly amazing what he accomplished both on and off the court
1:45.7	in a life well-lived. And I've been delighted to see it all over the, I think there's been a lot
1:52.5	of great tributes for great reason. And we throw around legends or legendaries a lot,
2:00.5	but if there's ever anyone that fit it, it's Bill Russell. This is one of the greatest athletes
2:12.2	to ever walk the earth. And I'm sure that you as someone growing up in the Massachusetts area
2:20.0	from a very early age had an awareness of Bill Russell. For sure, you know, I learned about
2:26.0	some Celtics legends of locker-own up. I learned about Bill Russell and Larry Bird. I learned
2:30.7	about Half-Latchak and all these different types of players and all their different roles
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