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The Mismatch

What Does the James Harden Trade Say About How the NBA Has Changed?

The Mismatch

The Ringer

Sports

4.75.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Kevin discuss the details of the intricate and wide-reaching James Harden trade on Wednesday (0:40). Then they get into a conversation about what the nature of Harden’s trade request says about the changes that have occurred across the NBA and NBA coverage, including player empowerment, the media boom, and shifts in fandom (12:30). They cap it all off with a conversation about the specific on-court and off-court chemistry concerns for the Nets with their new star-studded roster (40:30). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Kevin O'Connor on today's episode of The Miss Match. Chris Vernon and I went deep

0:05.1

into the James Harden trade. Really enjoyed this conversation and hope you do too. That's coming up next.

0:13.5

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1:25.4

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon. Joe Demisey does every Friday from the wringer.com.

1:29.2

It's Kevin O'Connor. Okay, Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Conflict,

1:33.6

Kevin O'Canberman, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Kindness, Kevin O'Verno. How you doing?

1:42.2

I'm doing a big trade. Been a big week. Now, you had to comment on it on the fly on Wednesday.

1:49.6

I tuned in. You guys went live. I saw the Twitter alert come by that you guys were talking about

1:56.2

the trade live. Obviously, I wanted to be able to click right on it and hear somebody talking about

2:00.5

it at that time. It's very difficult to digest everything that takes place all so quickly.

2:06.0

Oh, yeah. And you're attempting to while talking about it, but we've all just learned about this.

2:11.5

But now that you have had, you know, we've both had 48 hours to kind of digest it all and think

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