The Mismatch’s Trade Deadline Postmortem

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This Friday, Verno and KOC get into the most active trade deadline in NBA history, starting with the unexpected trade of Nikola Vucevic from the Magic to the Bulls (3:00). Then they get into the addition of Aaron Gordon to the Nuggets (18:00), the Lakers, Heat, and 76ers passing on Kyle Lowry (27:55), Miami’s strategically significant trade for Victor Oladipo (35:25), Portland’s sneaky addition of Norman Powell (46:45), the somewhat baffling Rajon Rondo for Lou Williams trade (57:50), and more! Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Baseball season is right around the corner, and Jake Mintz and Jordan Schusterman will
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0:20.5	their trademark wit and irreverence.
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0:40.2	Welcome to the Miss Match, I'm Chris Barney, and joining me is he does every Friday from
0:43.6	theRinger.com, his Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Candy
0:47.2	Land, Kevin O'Candy, Kevin O'Kandy.
0:55.5	It was a busy trade deadline, and yet after I was going through everything last night
1:02.2	jotting down my notes, I found myself being a little underwhelmed, just in the sense
1:11.0	of only in this sense that I'm not sure that any of the moves really moved the needle
1:22.4	in terms of who I think's going to be there at the end.
1:27.1	The only one that I would argue possibly got themselves to a different level would be
1:36.7	Miami.
1:37.7	Interesting.
1:38.7	Interesting.
1:39.7	Very end.
1:40.9	I'm talking about like, do you think these teams are going to be in the Eastern Finals?
1:47.5	And I would have told you, of course, we thought in the Eastern Conference, or we believe
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