Steph Says Night-Night to the Nuggets, Youth Sport Knicks, Gambling Scandal, and Our Loves and Loathes

The Mismatch

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Sports

4.7 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Verno and Jacoby return to recap the absolutely amazing start of the NBA season. They also discuss Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones getting arrested as a part of an investigation related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. Next, it's the return of Verno and Jacoby’s loves and loathes from the first week of the NBA season. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch(02:29) Thunder 2-0 after back-to-back double OT wins(09:20) Warriors survive OT thriller against Nuggets(20:16) Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and the NBA gambling scandal(38:24) Verno and Jacoby’s loves(01:06:35) Verno and Jacoby’s loathes Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducer: Jessie LopezSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:56.7	slash AI-glasses. Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me as he does every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby.
1:18.6	Verno, we got basketball.
1:20.8	Not only have we gotten basketball, we have gotten way more than we bargained for.
1:25.6	This first week and the first couple of games of the season have been absolutely incredible.
1:31.2	And while Adam Silver is probably not able to enjoy the fruits of his labor with the new TV deal
1:38.9	and us having Oklahoma City go to two double overtime games, we have an epic Nuggets Warriors game that went last night.
1:47.8	We've had rookies show out.
1:49.8	We've had all kinds of highlights.
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