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The Mismatch

Top Summer League Performances, Interesting Teams, and Lakers Drama

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.75.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Verno and KOC congratulate the Blazers for winning this year’s summer league tournament before discussing the top performers (02:00). The guys debate how many interesting teams there really are in the league right now before discussing whether the Raptors would be a possible destination for Kevin Durant (17:26). It has been reported that James Harden will return to the 76ers on a discounted rate and they discuss Harden’s impact fit with Joel Embiid (33:15). The guys also discuss LeBron James playing in the Drew League and all the noise surrounding Russell Westbrook and the Lakers (42:44). Despite the Knicks being the overwhelming favorite to land Donovan Mitchell, he still remains on the Jazz as the guys debate why Mitchell hasn’t been dealt yet (01:02:19). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Producer: Jessie Lopez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.1

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me. He does every Tuesday from the

1:21.7

wringer dot com is Kevin O'Connor, Kate Kevin Obama, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O' Candy,

1:25.6

Lynn, Kevin O' Cameron, Kevin O' Climb, Kevin O' Cannabis, Kevin O'Connor,

1:30.4

oh no. What's up, man? How you doing this Tuesday? Well, we got through summer league. So now we've

1:37.1

got a little bit of downtime. Well, I don't know if it's going to be downtime. We are just going to

1:43.1

have our time filled with needless drama. And so there is drama all over the NBA. You know,

1:51.3

once there are no games, players to talk about, then the void gets filled with the drama. So we'll

1:58.4

get to some of the drama. But summer league did conclude. Congratulations to the Portland trailblazers.

2:05.8

I have not seen when they have scheduled their parade, but a summer league championship for

2:12.7

the trailblazers who are trying to rebuild on the fly.

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