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The Mismatch

The Most Exciting Players, All-Star Game Improvements, and the Summer of Strahinja Continues

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.75.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Verno and Jacoby return with five questions each about the upcoming season. (00:00) Welcome to The Mismatch!(00:52) Most exciting players to watch(14:50) Did last year’s terrible All-Star Game actually save the All-Star Game?(19:40) Who is the NBA’s Tommy Fleetwood? (Player that everyone would love to see win)(26:42) Which team are you not sold on that's expected to be good?(34:03) Which team has the best chance to become this season's Pistons?(38:40) Is it time to do something about the abundance of 3-point shooting?(47:04) Favorite New York sporting events(50:44) Learning more about Strahinja Jokic(55:28) Which video games were you best at?(01:03:19) Jacoby’s most contentious opinion Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Jessie LopezSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the mismatch, I'm Chris Vernon, and joining me see us every Monday night from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby.

0:17.3

Jacobi.

0:18.6

What's happening, Berno?

0:20.2

All right, so there's not been NBA news, not a lot of it, since we last spoke.

0:25.0

So we are jumping right into the 10 questions we have for this week.

0:29.8

These are my favorite shows.

0:31.0

These are my favorite shows.

0:31.9

August is the best time to be in sports media.

0:34.5

It's the best time.

0:36.2

I will begin.

0:38.5

One news item from the week was that John Wall officially retired since we last spoke.

0:46.7

John Wall is without question one of the most exciting players to watch in his prime.

0:52.5

Give me your list of your most exciting players to watch. This list can be as long as you want it to be. You want to make it three guys. You want to make it five guys. There's a couple things I want to say. I did five guys. Okay. But in my life, the most exciting player to watch is Michael Jordan. But I'm not going to put him on the list. Just a little too, like low-hand fruit. Like the LeBron's and Jordans is, these are like, showmen is how I look at this. Right. Like people that when they're on the basketball court, they put on a show. There's also a little bit of you just never know what's going to happen with these guys, so you tune it.

1:29.0

You might, like you say, you might see something.

1:32.5

You've never seen before.

1:34.4

Exactly.

1:35.6

So this is my list.

1:37.1

And I try to mix errors as well.

1:40.0

So I will say 20 second time out.

1:42.6

Once John Wall did his official retirement, you know, we mock the way the social media goes now.

1:48.8

And it'll be like, people forget so and so was a problem.

1:52.4

And then you see the mixtape.

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