The Most Disastrous and Perfect Fits of the Offseason

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Verno and Jacoby recap the latest string of free agency news, including Paolo Banchero’s contract extension, where Jonas Valanciunas will play, and more. Next, they discuss which offseason moves they think will turn out disastrous and which moves are perfect fits. (0:00) Welcome to The Mismatch!(0:50) Summer League Takeaways(4:20) Reaction to the Norm Powell-John Collins Trade(8:55) Expect Jonas Valančiūnas to Play for the Nuggets?(13:53) Paolo Banchero Signs Extension with Magic(17:08) Grizzlies Trade Away Jay Huff, Sign Jock Landale(23:50) Why is Malik Beasley Still Unsigned?(28:15) More Free Agency & Trade Reactions(31:17) Disaster Fit: Pelicans Draft Derik Queen(34:17) Disaster Fit: Deandre Ayton Signs with The Lakers(39:15) Disaster Fit: Jrue Holiday with the Blazers(44:03) Disaster Fit: Bucks Waive Dame to Sign Myles Turner(46:35) Disaster Fit: Spurs Sign Luke Kornet(50:48) Disaster Fit: The Brooklyn Nets(53:12) Perfect Fit: DFS on the Rockets(55:35) Perfect Fit: The Atlanta Hawks(57:48) Perfect Fit: Former Grizzlies on the Magic(59:48) Perfect Fit: Mike Brown Coaching the Knicks(1:02:30) Perfect Fit: Kyle Lowry Signs with the 76ers(1:05:40) What's Next for Chris Paul?(1:07:15) Perfect Fit: Nuggets Offseason Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Jessie Lopez and Tucker TashjianSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.1	I'm Chris Vernon.
0:43.7	Join me as he does every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby.
0:46.7	Jacoby.
0:47.7	What's happening, Bruno?
0:49.3	Man, we are, I can't believe how we have not had any kind of downtime. It was like we went straight from
0:57.7	the finals, straight to the draft, and now Summer League has already started and we've had all
1:04.5	manner of transactions going on in the week that has separated the draft up to Summer League.
1:11.4	And so there is no rest for the weary when it comes to basketball.
1:15.4	I think I had like maybe a few down nights where I was like, man, no NFL, no NBA.
1:22.0	And I actually even watched the Summer League games starting this weekend just to check out
1:27.1	the rookies that I and especially
1:28.9	the ones that I'd never seen before. I took a look at some Summer League this evening. I watched
1:33.0	a little topitch. It was good. You get past. You can't get past. You know what? I was disappointed.
1:40.1	I might as well get this one out of the way. I was disappointed. I tuned in tonight before we were recording on this Monday night.
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