Thunder Sweep Lakers, Cavs Tie it at 2 and Pivotal Game 5 for Spurs-T’Wolves

The Mismatch

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Verno and Jacoby return to react to Monday’s playoff matchups. The Thunder remain undefeated as they sweep the Lakers, and the Cavs tie the series at 2 with the Pistons. They also preview Game 5 between the Spurs and the T’Wolves and examine the Knicks' run and the NBA Draft Lottery. Welcome to The Mismatch! (2:05) Thunder-Lakers: Lakers fought hard in a 115-110 loss (7:41) Thunder Dominate playoffs, Sweep Suns and Lakers (10:11) Lebron Swept: Time to take a pay cut or retire? (16:20) Pistons-Cavs: Mitchell drops 43 pts in 112-103 Win, series tied 2-2 (25:44) Knicks Sweep Sixers 4-0: 497points, averaging 124+ PPG (30:31) Plenty of rest for Anunoby and crew before Eastern Conference Finals (37:35) Wemby was tossed for Flagrant 2 in the 2nd quarter, time served by the NBA. (44:00) Wolves need ‘Super’ Ant: Edwards needs to go off to Advance. (46:00) Dylan Harper: Rookies having moments in the Playoffs (54:21) NBA Draft Lottery: Verno Jumps off the Couch, Grizzlies land no. 3 pick (58:17) 2026 NBA Draft Top Four: 1. Dybansta, 2. Peterson, 3. Boozer, 4. Wilson 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 Protect your summer today at WeatherTech.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Farnan and joining me to see us every week from the wrenker.com.
0:21.4	It's Dave Jacoby. Jacoby.
0:23.8	Verno, it's 1.30 in the morning in New York.
0:27.5	We just watched a great game. Lakers swept.
0:31.0	I don't know if I want to talk to you more about the wimby elbow thing that felt like three weeks ago.
0:35.8	The fact that the Grizzlies got the number three pick in the draft or the New York
0:40.5	Knickerbockers.
0:41.5	You pick.
0:42.6	We're going to start with the games that went on tonight.
0:45.1	Okay.
0:45.4	The first of which was we finally got, we've gotten two semi-close games in the eight thunder victories thus far, as they have now bowed
0:58.8	their way to the Western Conference Finals. They've won eight. They beat the Lakers by 18, 18,
1:04.9	23, and we finally got a single digit of five at the very end.
1:10.8	This was a good one.
1:11.7	This was close.
1:12.7	This was.
1:13.7	Oh, you know what?
1:14.6	Well, Ann, credit to Phoenix.
1:18.3	At the end, they got beat by nine as well, right?
1:20.7	Like, they were, their last game was a single digit game.
1:24.4	This episode of the mismatch is presented to you by WeatherTech.
1:29.1	Everyone knows winter is the MVP in making a mess.
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