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The Mismatch

What Can Blake Griffin Add to the Brooklyn Nets? Plus: KOC’s Midseason Power Rankings

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.75.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Verno and KOC discuss their reactions to the All-Star Game (0:25) and what, if anything, Blake Griffin has left in the tank to pursue a championship with the Brooklyn Nets (9:20). Then they dive deep into several aspects of KOC’s NBA midseason power rankings (20:20), including whether Jamal Murray is on a hot streak or making the leap (22:35), Bam Adebayo having the best season of his career (26:45), Kyle Lowry’s future with the Raptors (30:25), what team Victor Oladipo could end up on (35:00), interest from multiple teams in the G League’s Alize Johnson (45:05), and much more.  Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David Schumaker and Kaz host the Mass Man Show every week breaking down everything in the world of professional wrestling.

0:05.6

Check out the Mass Man Show on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:23.9

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me see this every Tuesday from TheRinger.com is Kevin O'Connor,

0:28.4

aka Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Camera, Kevin O'Candibus, Kevin O'Kinon.

0:35.2

Vernon, look at you over there. Good mood today. Where are you?

0:38.4

Dack Presscott, Jersey. How you feeling, Chris? How you doing?

0:41.1

I feel great. I am glad that the saga is over with Dack Presscott, much like you rooted for Tom Brady

0:49.3

for a long time. You don't you never want to be rooting for a franchise that changes quarterbacks constantly.

0:54.8

I mean, back then. So a long time spent rooting for Tony Romo. And then now several years rooting for

1:03.6

Dack Presscott. And I would have hated for him to be wearing a different uniform. And he got paid.

1:08.4

Oh my god, did he get paid? You weren't into the the new Chi Dalton era last year.

1:15.2

Let's just say his value went up exponentially based upon the play of the players last season.

1:22.8

All right, we are through All Star weekend. It was a fun All Star weekend for me. And I say this

1:31.6

because I don't really know how I would have viewed it if I did not have a kid that loved the NBA.

1:39.6

But the fact that I do have a kid that loves the NBA that, you know, invigorates me to

1:46.1

enjoy this stuff more than maybe I normally would because there is there's so much joy for him

1:54.3

to watch the stuff, right? So it's like, all right, we're going to get the three point contest.

1:58.9

We're going to get the dunk contest. We're going to get an All Star game. And you get to see

2:03.9

all the best players in one place at one time. And so I didn't really know how it was going to go.

2:09.9

You know, they're not splitting it up with the All Star Saturday night. The All Star, you know,

2:14.8

everything was being done on Sunday. But I will say this three point contest. Absolutely

2:22.8

unbelievable with incredible drama with Curry winning it. So three point contest gets to A plus

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