Thunder Continue to Roll, Five Straight for Detroit, and OG Injury Concern

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Verno and Jacoby return to react to Thursday’s playoff matchups. The Pistons stay hot, James Harden's issues continue, and the Thunder take a 2-0 series lead over the Lakers. Then, they preview Game 3 of the Knicks-76ers and Wolves-Spurs series. Welcome to The Mismatch! (00:36) James Harden has issues: 10 pts, 3-13 FG, 4 TO (2:52) Cavs-Pistons: Detroit up 2-0 with 107-97 victory (6:26) Cade Cunningham: 25 pts, 15th game of 20+ pts in playoffs (8:48) Evan Mobley: Limited impact with 9 pts (13:52 ) Tobias Harris: 21 pts, 7 reb, 7th game of 20+ pts in playoffs (17:27) Lakers-Thunder: Lakers competitive early in 125-107 loss to OKC (24:47) Lakers-Thunder: Officiating crew ruined flow of the game (28:16) Knicks injury concerns: OG Anunoby day-to-day with hamstring strain (35:23) Knicks' fourth-quarter lockdown: Held Sixers to 12 pts on 4-19 shooting (40:59) Wolves - Spurs: Seven Spurs scored in double figures in blowout win (45:28) R-A-I-D! Ant-Man 12 pts, 5-13 FG, 1-5 from the arc (50:36) Draymond Green: An intense exchange in Charles's house (54:57) Jaylen Brown the streamer: Who was worse, Draymond or Jaylen? (57:58) Sunday’s draft lottery: Grizzlies have 37.2 percent chance of a top-four pick The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! (323) 389-5091 Hosts: Chris Vernon and David Jacoby Producers: Stefan Anderson and Jeff Shearin Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.0	Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar swings.
0:08.9	There's a money-side to every story.
0:11.4	Get the money-side of the story.
0:13.5	Subscribe now atinger.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacobi! Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon.
0:37.6	And joining me to us every week from The Ringer.com is Dave Jocoby.
0:40.7	Jacoby.
0:42.7	Verno, I think we have to start with James Hart.
0:48.7	All right.
0:49.4	So I don't want to.
0:51.9	Why not?
0:53.0	Because we just got done watching Thunderlakers.
0:57.1	We got two games that went on tonight, and both of them ended with 2-0 in the series.
1:02.7	And I'll let you do your hardened bit.
1:08.3	No, I don't have a hardened bit.
1:10.0	We can start wherever you want to start, buddy.
1:12.0	I got really irritated about Cade and the Pistons,
1:16.9	taking them down to Zip,
1:20.8	and all anybody is talking about is James Hardin
1:24.2	and Evan Mobley's $50 million contract and the shame that is the Cleveland
1:31.3	Cavaliers.
1:33.0	When will the disrespect end?
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