The Celtics Extend Josh Richardson and the Timberwolves Continue to Explore a Ben Simmons Trade. Plus: The Overtime Elite League Signals New Opportunities for High School Prospects.

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Verno and KOC first talk about some of the particulars of the NBA schedule that was released on Friday, including how the national games are spread around (0:30). Then they talk about the Josh Richardson extension in Boston and how the Celtics are collecting strong assets for a potential trade for Bradley Beal (10:55). After that they discuss the new Overtime Elite league, which is backed by the likes of Drake, Kevin Durant, and Jeff Bezos, and how targeting high school prospects with big-money contracts threatens college basketball (19:12). Finally, they get into reporting from Jon Krawczynski that the Timberwolves are still pursuing a trade for Ben Simmons that could include a third team (40:18), the Celtics retiring Kevin Garnett’s number (46:40), and Klay Thompson’s potential return to the court around Christmas (56:05). 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	Emmy Award-winning producer, actor and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air hosting a podcast where he weighs in on the issues of the week and
0:07.6	Interviews guests in the world of politics, entertainment, culture, sports and beyond. Check out Larry Wilmore black on the air on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:17.3	I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty, or myself.
0:25.9	Am I Rick? Am I Morty? Am I me?
0:28.9	Am I Rick? Am I Morty? Am I me?
0:32.2	I don't know. Watch now on all four. The UK's biggest free streaming service.
0:37.8	Watch and rewatch. Watch and rewatch.
0:39.8	Watch and rewatch.
0:40.4	Go for me.
0:41.2	Come to our channel four.com slash verify.
0:43.6	Welcome to the Miss Match. I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me to do is every Tuesday from the wringer.com is Kevin O'Connor, a K-Kevino bomber, Kevin O'Climb, Kevin O'Concert, Kevin O'Killian, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Blazerian.
1:08.5	Hello. Bruno. You would get kids doing the great challenge at all outside.
1:16.0	Absolutely not.
1:18.8	The great challenge. I've seen these people fall on their face and whatnot online, but I'm unaware.
1:25.6	Has it become a wave where tons of people are doing this? I saw one video of the guy smashing his face.
1:31.6	I was like, yeah, I don't understand. No, thank you. I have no interest in having a permanent back damage
1:37.2	for the rest of my life. I saw a video of a woman breaking her arm doing it.
1:40.5	No, thank you. I've got all this. I'll just watch the videos from afar and chuckle to myself.
1:46.1	Yeah, no, no great challenges for us. We have reached the quiet time throughout the NBA, but that, interestingly enough,
1:55.7	there has been a ton of news since we last spoke. Schedule came out on Friday. We saw,
2:01.6	you know, in terms of what the big games are, things that we look out for, the best matchup,
2:08.5	what's going to be out Christmas, who's playing at the very end of the year. Anything that
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