The Mismatch - SGA MVP Week Continues, Kawhi Shines. Plus, Loves and Loathes

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Verno and Jacoby return to recap the Thunder-Celtics matchup, Kawhi Leonard’s brilliance, and Luka effortlessly scoring 50. Then they discuss their loves and loathes for this past week. Welcome to The Mismatch!1:25 Thursday's games: Thunder beat the Celtics7:16 Thursday's games: Middleton turns back the clock for Mavs12:52 Verno Loves: Kawhi Leonard is a marvel to watch16:14 Jacoby Loves: The experience at the Intuit Dome22:24 Verno Loathes: Refs ejecting Jaylen Brown in Celtics-Spurs28:17 Jacoby Loathes: Bam scoring “Hatey Three”32:44 Verno Loves: Jalen Johnson having a historic season36:12 Jacoby Loves: Joe Mazzulla should be in the “Coach of the Year” convo37:43 Verno Loathes: Everyone hating on the Pistons42:12 Jacoby Loathes: How Luka is covered even after scoring 51pts46:59 Verno Loves: The Orlando Magic getting on track53:31 Jacoby Loves: Jokic-Murray duo57:40 Verno Loathes: Dwight Howard’s retirement announcement1:02:23 Jacoby Loathes: L.A. traffic sucks! Leave us a message on our Mismatch Voicemail line! [phone]Hosts: Chris Vernon and David JacobyProducers: Stefan Anderson and Jeff ShearinSocial: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the Miss Match, I'm Chris Vernon. And joining me see us every week from the rigger.com. It's Dave Jacoby. Jacoby. It's so nice in Los Angeles. I cannot, I can't celebrate enough just how beautiful the weather is, the people are, and the game starting at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It's awesome.

I'm not doing anything after 4 o'clock. It's like my day is over 4 o'clock. You're moving. I know you are. I drank a smoothie and did yoga yesterday. I'm going to get some bad tattoos. I'm going to lean into this. LA thing. I can't wait. I knew it. I can't wait. I knew this was going to happen. Talk to my

agent. Now you're going out there like, talk to my manager. Pretty much weekly. And you're going to end up there. I'm in acting class. I've acting class after this. Let's watch the show. Unbelievable. I'm there be a fan of the act. You don't miss her. You don't miss the rat. I miss my kids. They've been low. The rats have been lonely without you. They're like, where's that guy that comes out every morning? And I'm like, oh, man, I really miss my kids. They're cute. I want to go see them. You can FaceTime them from Airwan, wherever you're going. I love Airwerew.

All right. All right. We got a couple of things that took place last night as we recorded this on Friday morning. We've got the thunder beating the Celtics. So I asked you to pump the brakes a little bit in our first episode of the week when you were overtaken by the Celtics. The Jason Tatum return. I said, hold on. Now let's just, can we see them play these next two?

games. Now, obviously the Spurs game was a massive bummer because of Jalen Brown getting thrown out of that game. But they played the Spurs. They played Oklahoma City. I'm willing to write off the Spurs one because that was not, that was not the full Celtics experience with the Jaila Brown thing happening, which we'll get to it a little bit. Last night, notatim. So we really didn't. So even though we talked about that early in the week, we didn't get the full experience. it's either time. But I'll tell you this, the Celtics played them

all the way down to the wire and it took. Were they 0-2 or 2-0 this week? I can't tell. Were they 0-2 or 2-0? 0-2 on paper, 2-0 morally. Moral victories.

Two great moral victories for the Celtics this week. Huge moral wins. And the Jalen Brown game tying shot was superstar-level stuff. And then obviously you got the Chet foul with less than a second and he knocks down the free throws

and they win the game. SGA did set the record, or he broke the record. He set the record earlier this week alongside Will Chamberlain, but he broke the record for consecutive 20-point games last night. And, you know, in our last episode, I think everybody in the NBA media was talking about after we had seen that Denver Oklahoma City game, all right, MVP's all locked up. Like, this was a MVP week for SGA. because last night he had 35, 9, and 6 on 13 of 18 from the field to go along with two steals and three blocks in the game.

And what's insane about this is in our episode early in the week, we talked about how crazy his night was and the two game winning shots. And then we were like, yeah, and then what's going to be forgotten is Yokic having this just disgusting stat. and he would have been the guy that everybody's talking about. So if you go look from last night, you have this night, the record gets broken, they win the game against the Celtics. He's crazy efficient and has these like MVPS numbers. And then you go check the Denver game and Yoko Chas 31, 20, and 12. I mean, casual.

It's like, what can I do? What could I possibly do to make you notice me? It's crazy. It's crazy. I thought the Thunder Celtics game was just such a good watch. Like no team, it wasn't one of those games where it's like, ah, one team's up by 18, and then the other team goes on and runs and hits a bunch of threes. It was just so tight the whole time, and it was tense, and every possession felt important.

And to watch, it was a lot like, you know, the game we watched before last episode, where is SGA not just making. making huge plays down the stretch, but responding to the other team star making star plays. Just one-upping them. It was just like, anything you can do, I can do better. It's what it looked like on both games this week. And then a colossal bummer that we didn't get Yokic and Wempe because we look for that as a possible, like what if these two matched up in the playoffs?

And especially because we did get SGA and Yokit earlier in the week. And so in the absence of Spurs ran out on Denver last night, but Denver was able to end up getting a win. Huge Yokage night. The Murray, and they needed that badly. My biggest takeaway from that game was just Jamal Murray because this was the Jamal Murray that we saw in the bubble.

This is the Jamal Murray that we saw in the championship run. Like, you know, for this team to be considered title contenders, you're going to need Murray to play like this last night. And they were dominant, just absolutely dominant. I have the two of the best duo on the league. Easily. I can't think of another one. Best do one in the league.

Can you think another one? Well, and they're going to have to be. For them to be able to be awesome this year, they're going to have to be. I'm talking to playoff basketball. And obviously those are two unbelievable playoff performers because you do wonder like, okay, who's going to be that third guy?

Who's going to be that third guy, right? The Michael Porter Jr. that might go off on you. I want to give a night. Aaron Gordon. But like, you know, we haven't seen Aaron Gordon look like himself. quite yet. But, you know, it was, it's just another, it was a good week of the Nuggets reminding us that they're here, you know, because they've been, you know, since Yokic came back,

they've been kind of giving tape here and there. And this is really, really impressive. Yeah, but really impressive. And then obviously what everybody was watching was the game that I went to. No one watched that. Which was. But you don't, Verno, before you move on to that, I do want to say, I'm glad you brought up the Yokic Wembe matchup,

because as it stands, who is Wemby's, like, quote, unquote, rival? It's Chet. But Wembe himself is like, that's not a thing. Like, don't compare me to Chet. Oh, no, he hates him. I know he hates him. There's smoke there. But he'd know, he said in a press conference,

he was like, we're not, in terms of, like, basketball players, we're not comparable. And I do think that Yolkich would be someone that I would love to see in a playoff series and them go to toe to toe. Yeah, that was. bummer. But, I mean, you say no one was watching the game I was at. No, no, no, it was. They missed. They missed turn back the clock night. I watched Chris Middleton score 22 points in a quarter in the fourth quarter, 35. Was it ethical? Did they foul? Did wait, wait, was it,

was it an ethical 22 points though? Did you do it the right way? Because that's what's important today. Did he do it the right way? A completely ethical 22. And I guess my first question for you is, did you know Chris Middleton is a maverick? Yes, yes, I did. I get paid American dollars to cover the National Basketball Association. I mean, it would be understandable. I am familiar with that fact.

However, I did, because did I know this game was happening? Yes, because I look at the app and you have to scroll past games to get to the good ones. And I'd scroll up. But at one point, Memphis was like up early, right? It was close. early, right? I don't. Look, I was just good.

I was like, oh, look at Memphis. They might win. And then it's rather third and fourth quarter is like a 20 point deficit. And I was like, what are they doing? I'm going to give you a rundown of yesterday. So my wife says to me, she said, so the kids are on spring break. Oh, we didn't go anywhere. And so my wife says to me, says, hey, I said, hey, you know, Cooper flagged in town.

He's the number one draft. I was like, my son may. want to go to the game. And so she texted me yesterday. She's like, is he going? And I was like, oh, I forgot to ask him. He wasn't up by the time I left. And so I text him. And I said, hey, man, you want to see Cooper Flagg tonight? That's who the Grizzlies play. His answer was, I'll just stay here. I said, is there anyone you would go to see Wembe, Aunt Lamello? he said, I would see Wemby and the Hornets against the Grizzlies. I don't know, though.

Unbelievable. I'll go see those players, but not against the Grizzlies. Unbelievable. Okay, so now I'm just going to give you a quick rundown. I'll just stay here. I feel like that's what Wimby did last night. He's like, oh, do you want to play against Yokin? She's like, I'll just stay here. So now I'm getting ready to go to the arena last night.

Get my suit on. and get ready. My daughter comes in, and she's like, why'd you ask him to go to the game and not me? Oh, I said, Mama said you had soccer tonight. Burnow. She goes, she goes, I would have gone. She goes, I would have gone.

And so now I'm like, I'm walking out to my car. Now Elaine is going to be mad. And I'm like, I'm like, all right. I walk back in. I was like, Haley, you want to go? She's like, yeah, I want to go. And I'm like, really? And she's like, yes.

She's like, otherwise, I'm just going to be playing a Fortnite or whatever. And so she went with me last night. Oh. And now she went with me to the game. Great. But I'm having to explain who Ryan Rupert and Trey Burton are and why they're playing for the Grizzlies and what's going on. And why Cam Spencer isn't playing and who is that guy? Why isn't Camp Spencer play?

You don't even get Camp Spencer? Look. Why is he playing? Because he had like 25 the last time we played against a Mavericks. If you're too good, you're in timeout. But, yeah, I guess we're, no, that's where we are at the state of the Grizzlies is Cam Spencer's, quote, unquote, too good. If I can't trust you to not be good, I'm going to find somebody. This is, we got to, I know Adam Silver listens to the mismatch twice.

He listens to every episode twice. It's just like, just just de-incentifies losing. Can we just like make it be random? Yeah, that's why I'm so glad this is going to be the last year of this below. Yeah, this is ridiculous. I'm upset. And I'm unsure that Adam Silver listens, but I do want to say to everybody out there and I set you these, I got all kinds of messages.

The only people, it seems to me, that listen to all of last episode, I got messages from Turkey. I got messages from Australia. I got messages for Russia? No one listens in America. No domestic listeners. No one listens to us. This is an international podcast.

Globalization is here. Globalization is here. There's no domestic audience. That's what I'm going to tell Bill. I'm going to see him later today. I'm going to say, Bill, the mismatch, huge, huge overseas. I know that no one never talks to you about it. But overseas, we crush Turkey.

Do you want to do a live show in New York? No. Do you want to do a live show in Memphis? No. Do you want to do a live show in Memphis? L.A.? No. Live show. Istanbul. Frankfurt.

Frankfurt. Yep. Yep. Sydney. And, yeah, Australia, Turkey. Bangkok. Yep. That's where we're going.

As far as I can tell. So I don't know about Adam Silver, but I do know, like, worldwide. Oh, my God. I mean, I guarantee you there's not people in Turkey listening to Amy Polar who was named the greatest podcast of all time. Yeah, seriously. She got listeners in Turkey? No, doubt it. She listens to the Miss Coach, too, three times every episode.

Yeah, for sure she does. All right, let's get to everything that we love and loat from the NBA week that was. All right. We're going to start. So I'm going to give a shout out to Kauai Leonard because he made me look super smart. So I came on here and I told you my whole, the thing now, I am a other team evaluator slash prospect watcher. Hold on. We got to rebrand that.

We have to rebrand that. We have to rebrand that. No, let's call you like a prospector. You're a prospector. Prospector. You're a prospector. And I need one of those like hats and like a pickax. Yes.

You're not an other team evaluator slash pregnant. No, prospector. All right. Quick 20 second timeout. No. I promise you this. Yes. I will go.

I am going to buy one of those big brown hats and I'm buying a picket. and I'm buying a pickax and by next show, I will debut the Prospector after conference tournament week. So this weekend is conference tournament week. And then we have, and then we have the NCAA tournament

starting next Thursday. It is my solemn bow to you that by next episode, we will introduce the Prospector, and I will truly be him. So you are a prospect. Okay. Continue.

Okay. That being said, I evaluate the other teams and I told you that last Saturday, I went and saw the Clippers in person and it was so jarring how much better Kauai Leder was than everybody else on the court. Like he took over the game, dominated the entire second quarter in a way that it looked like there's one guy doing one thing and there's nine others that are participating in this. but this guy is infinitely better than everybody else in March so far.

So then he backed that up. So I say that I'm effusive in my praise. You don't understand what level this guy is at right now. And then he drops 45. It is even better against the Timberwolves. Okay. And now so far this month, he is averaging a tick under 30 points a game. Seriously?

Six and a half rebounds, four assists, two steals, all while shooting 57% from the field and the clippers are 6 and 1. And it is just a marvel to watch this guy. We just got so used to what he was, what he had become, being in and out of the lineup that I feel like everybody needs to take true notice that, like, that team, if you took him off of that team,

like, it's the irony of all irony. that they're going to get punished like hell for his acquisition, it seems like. I don't know. Did you see that Frank Isola thing? Frank Isola said he is hearing and, you know, he's been in New York forever and inevitably knows people from the league office. He's hearing three first rounders and over a $30 million fine for the whole aspiration, Pablo Tori scandal that went on with Kawhi Leonard.

Anyways, he's finally at absolute peak of powers. And they're like a playing team. My first love, I was there. I'm in Los Angeles. You went? William Simmons is like, he puts me on a text with Van Lathen. He's like, I want you guys to go to the Clippers game tonight. You can have my tickets.

Go to his house. first of all, remember when you went to the Knicks game? What was, like, when you had a full meltdown, like one of the most frustrated and confused I've ever seen Chris Vernon was downloading the Knicks app. So you have to download the Intuit Dome app. It took me an hour and a half to just to get the tickets,

but I got the tickets. You'll never believe this, but Bill has amazing seats. And you get to see this all the time. But, so I go to Madison Square Garden when I go to basketball games, and it is, whatever, most famous arena in the world, historic, amazing. But it's old.

You know what I mean? It's old. This place brand spanking new. Like when you sit down in the seats, I felt like I was in a simulation. Like I felt like I was like, I had VR goggles on or something. You know, those commercials?

It's like, you can sit courtside. Like, it was just wild. The lighting, the technology, the ring, the wall, the everything was just like top-not, brand spanking new. It was like, you know, when you go, like, there's the beauty, there's something of beauty about like a pre-war old house.

You know what I mean? That's like lived in, seen generations. And you're like, this is historic and amazing. And I'll give it 10 out of 10. But there's also something amazing about a modern, brand new apartment building where everything's just like clean, modern. Also 10 out of 10.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it was an amazing experience to be there. and Kauai Leonard scored 45. If you were to ask me on my way out how many Kauai had, I'd be like 18, 20. You don't even notice. He just, really? Against Jaden McDaniels, against Anthony Edwards, against anybody, he just gets to his spot, rises up and hits a mid-range jumper.

Think about that game. How many times do you see him drive to the basket? How many times you see him go to the free throw line? How many times you see him hit threes? They're just like boring-ass mid-range robotic McAll-Bridge-looking, release, you know, he puts the hands super high and the release is super high, so it's like unbothered. He's just like, he seems bored scoring on you.

Like, he's honestly, it seems like he feels disrespected that that is your best attempt at defending him. And it's so quiet and so efficient. It was so fun to watch up close. It was an amazing spirit. The other thing is, though they have been disgusting defensively recently, I mean, if you're going to try to find wing defenders, that you like to employ on Kauaiwaters.

Do you think McDaniels would be like, you know, top 10 on the list? They fit the bill, right? And he just is laying waste to even them. I want to hear more about this into it, Dome, because I thought about going to All-Star weekend this weekend only for the arena. Like I had no interest in going otherwise, except that it was going to be there.

And I was like, I'd really like to see that arena. So I have not been to that arena yet. Did you eat? Did you drink? Did you do like all the arena? Did you go to the team store? Like, I want to hear about this. The thing is, is I didn't have a civilian experience. I had like a Bill Simmons experience. Do you get to walk in a special door? Yeah, special door lounge and then like ushered to the seats. And I'm so close to the game. I did not have a civilian experience. So it's like, I just.

A civilian experience. I did not. I did not at all. I did not. Is it just you and Van Lathan? Yeah, he's the best. He's so great. He's so great. Everything you think about Van, you're right.

It was you two. Yeah, great hang. That's who you went to the game with. Yeah. Look at you guys. Just being treated like celebrities the entire time. Unbelievable. I wanted to know what into it was like for the common man.

But you're like, I wouldn't know I'm not common. They were over there. Yeah, I don't. Oh, you mean the pores? They were in the other part. Yeah, they had a pineapple pizza. They had pork tacos. They had like Hawaiian theme.

The lounge is the Rwanda lounge. I don't know how Rwanda is sponsoring the Clippers into it don't. But like I was in the Rwanda lounge. However, though, there's always. Is that a company or like the country? It's a country. Yeah, like the country. Yeah.

Yeah. It was awesome. had a great time. Keith, the bartender, knew me from ESPN days. It was great. But I'll say, there's always a lounge that you can't get into. You know what I mean? Like at halftime, we're like, oh, we'll go to this lounge.

And they're like, I'm sorry, sir. Gentlemen, no, no, this is a, no, this is a non-U lounge. So there's always a lounge. What did you think about the wall? Did you like the wall? Love the wall. I mean, but do you remember I was anti-wall? Do you remember I did like an anti-wall rant?

and you know they say like never meet your heroes this was like actually like never meet those of which you have hated on because i'm in love with the wall now because like they cast the fans so it's like they're like real passionate clipper fans you know what i mean they're like really into the game and i can't hate passion like that like they were they were they were holding up signs of um leum nason in the snow and it took like 30 seconds to figure it out. I was like Liam Neeson in the snow. Do you remember the movie The Grey

where Liam Mason kills all the wolves? I was like they're playing the timber wolves. This is from the gray. So they're killing wolves. That's the level of fandom that they're at. And I was like, God bless these. And they're holding up signs of cute puppies. It was

I love the wall. I love the Intuit Dome. I'm now a clipper fan. That's what happened. All right. First load of the week. I was so excited to watch Spurs versus Celtics the other night. And then Tyler Ford and his crew, after Jalen Brown gets pushed in the back, Jalen Brown loses his mind. He starts yelling at the refs.

The refs throw him out of the game. I'm like, literally, this is like the only thing that can't happen, right? The only thing that can't happen is one of the best players involved in this game, gets chucked out of the game. and he gets chucked out of the game in the first half. And honestly, like, I know it. I think it was the quarter, whatever. Whatever.

I was so, like, despondent over that. I was like, well, now this isn't going to be what it should be. This isn't going to be what I wanted it to be. They just thrown out the best player on this team. He's going back. He immediately tweets from the locker room, which I respect a great deal. And he's also on this one. path where it's like, I don't know, like he's kind of gassed up, I think, by Missoula, too,

where it's like, you know, the other night he's talking about like, they keep moving the goalpost on this MVP thing. Like, what you want me to do? And I'm going to tell you, I listen to him. And most of the time, you just want to be like, oh, God, here's a guy that's like, oh, he's not getting the credit he deserves. And so now he's going to tell you he should be getting more credit. But the more I started thinking about, I was like, you know, he really should. I was like, everybody thought they were going to suck. And he's

he's really not, like he's not even in anybody's top four. Really? Right now for MVP? And I don't know I don't know how many guys you could put on that Celtics team and they'd have the same record this year.

If I'm being fair. Oh. Oh, this is a good take. Work this out. Work this out. So you're saying if you're just like body sweat, Yokic and Jalen Brown. He probably could no matter what. I mean. I don't know.

K. SGA. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. All I'm saying is this guy, two-way basketball. You can make a case that SGA can't defend like he can depend. You can make that case. You could say the same for K.

Two-way basketball, he has been absolutely elite. And if we do look at most valuable, as being look at what this guy accomplished with what was around it. Because you have to take into consideration what we all thought they were going to be. And this was a gap year, Tatum's out, play in team at best. We cannot deny that a team that like, as of within the last week, it was like, can they get to the one seed? It's like, what are we talking about?

could they get to the one seed? And for years, we've gone, like, who's the best player on the best team? And it's like, how are they even in the mix on this? Like, most of the time I would roll my eyes at the guy going, you know, I deserve more credit than this. But in this case, dude, I kind of actually, I kind of actually side with him because I think the season and the fact that he has been the best player on a team

that has been infinitely better than any of us expected them to be deserves a tremendous amount of credit. They went absolutely toe to toe to toe with the Thunder last night. To toe to toe throughout the entire game. Like I said, it wasn't like a, we're up by 20, we're going to run, we're down. It's like there's a toe to toe to the entire game. And this morning, because I take this show very seriously

and I prepare for it, I was looking at the game and the box score, and this is there starting by. aforementioned Jalen Brown, Hauser, Keda, Shireman, and Pritchard, two seat in the East. Brian. Like, if you look at their playoff roster from last year when they played the Knicks,

I think Brown was starting, maybe Pritchard. Okay, so look, let's set aside Brown and let's set aside Derek White. Okay? they're quite great also an amazing two-way player I'm just going to line them up on a wall who do you want

I've got brown and I've taken them I've taken brown and white I'm going to take take them now you pick no no no no he's not I'm saying for this season so far he's not he hasn't been available Pritchard

you would take Pritcher yeah dog yeah would you say it's an argument no I mean like if somebody took Kada No, Pritcher. Kate has been unbelievable. I like Cada, but like Pritchard.

Pritchard has been... Okay. Yeah. He's... Okay. That's your loathe, him getting kicked out. Oh, yeah. That was terrible.

That was... I mean, by the thing is... It ruined it. So, here's what I think happened. Here's my theory. And I'll make this quick because it happened like seven years ago in my mind. Jalen Brown got pushed out of bounds.

But what he did was he took himself, out of bounds and he forced the referee to make a call. Like you ever watched like a soccer game when they grab the ball with their hands when they feel like they got fouled? It's like you're forcing the ref to do something. And I felt like the ref didn't want to be like forced into calling the foul. So they called it out of bounds on him.

Like I just feel like the rep was like, I'm not going to do that just because you made me. Because he exaggerated the contact to take him out of bounds, which again, if you're out of bounds and the rep has to make a call. And I feel like the ref didn't want Jalen Brown making the call. to make it themselves. That's my theory on that. Here's my first load.

And I'll make this short, because this also feels like it happened 34 years ago, is Bamete Abio's Hades, Hades, Hades III. It's become the Hadesh. What's the problem? The guy scored 83 points in a basketball game.

Like, he scored 31 in the first quarter. He scored 31 in the first quarter. He scored 83 points in a basketball game. We're mad at it, and now we're mad. Now we're mad because he scored 83. And at the end, they were triple teaming him.

Coach Kee challenged a call to keep him from scoring. The Wizards were trying to keep him from scoring. I just chat GPTed. How many NBA games have there been in history? It said modern NBA season is 1,130 regular season games. All right, 30 teams. I'm good at math. 82 games divided by two.

So there have been roughly 85,000 to 86,000 games. played in NBA history. One of which has had 83 points scored in it. I would say it's like, it is kind of crazy. Don't forget it will. I mean, this is a, it is a,

it is a one in 42,500 occurrence. Yes. And we're mad about it. I mean, that's just, that's the way things are now. I guess. Right. It is.

No, no. I mean, it's part. It's, it's, it's, it's part. like a cultural discussion about how we can't enjoy anything. There's always, you know, I remember having a discussion. I had some young guys that were working with me

that started getting a lot of heat online, right? And it was bothering them, right? Like they're starting to get the mean comments. They were starting to get the Reddit threads. And everybody goes through this, right? It affected me in a massive way when I was young. I'm sure it did you as well.

You know, and I remember having a discussion with them. And this is when there was, it used to be you could click like or dislike on a YouTube. And I said, there is a video of John Sina with Make a Wish kids. and it has over 50,000 dislikes. There's 50,000 people that have watched John Sina with a make-a-wish kid and press dislike. It's a great point. And I said, you cannot worry about this. You can't.

You can't control what people. And so not that Bam out of bio is with a make-a-wish kid. What I am saying is no matter what happens, there's going to be a segment of the population that doesn't like it. And it can even be, that's my point. Even John Cena with the make-a-witch case. You can find 50,000 people that don't like it. And it's like, it's Kobe's involved now. And it's like, what is going on here?

Like, what is going on? Under no circumstances whatsoever, I'll be totally honest with you. tuned it in when he had 62 in the third quarter. Yeah. So you texted me. We're all watching Spurs Celtics. The entire world is watching Spurs Celtics until they get a text from a friend to switch it to the heat game. Everybody. And I will say, I went and grabbed my son and he came in. We watched the entire fourth quarter and we were laughing the entire time. I mean, it did become comical. But again, the whole game just turned into how many can this guy score? And it's like one night, some rams.

of night in March and the whole game turned into how many can one guy score in this game? And I was wildly entertained. Me too. It was great. Me too. That's a great point. Was it a good watch? Yes.

Am I happy it happened? Yes. So why are we hating on this? Move on. Let's look back to love. I'm going to start to get upset. Okay. My next love.

A moment for Jaila Johnson. So the Hawks have won eight games in a row. Did you see the Nets just leave him alone as he could dunk the basketball? You see this? Okay, that was ridiculous where the Nets just completely stood around like statues. There are, they've won eight games in a row. He again had another big night last night. But the reason I'm giving him this praise this week, I'm ready for it.

And you've got to be ready for this. Jacoby. Wait for it. Because now you said it. Now it's in my damn head. What happened? You're going to love this. Players to average 20 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists before the age of 25.

20 points, 10 rebounds, and 7. This is not going to be a long list. Can I guess a couple? Go ahead. To average 10 rebounds? 20 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists. Shit. That's hard.

Magic? 425. Magic? Nope. Lebron. Nope. Wilt. Nope.

Lance Stevenson. Oscar Robertson. Oh, of course. 10 rebounds. Nicola Yokic. Uh-huh. Jalen Johnson. Jesus.

I am going to love that. It's unbelievable. I am going to love that. Bruno, if we had an applause button, I would push it right now. I told you, I told you I was fixing that Tuesday show. All right.

23, 10, and 8 is what he's averaging. And there are only two other players before the age of 25. Think about those players too. Unbelievable. He's having a truly historic season. and they've now won eight games in a row. And look, kind of dangerous.

I know, like the bottom of the hornets, we are all celebrating the hornets and then the hawks and the magic have looked good lately too. Like, it's like the Eastern Conference has solidified itself. Like, you're either tanking or you are dangerous. It's either or. The other thing, and the reason I'm bringing him up is because I feel like he has done this in relative obscurity.

Nobody has any idea. this is going on. No. I mean, much less that a truly historic year is going on by an Atlanta Hawk. Literally the only thing anybody has talked about regarding the Hawks this year is Trey Young getting traded and Magic City Night. Magic City Night. And they have a player that is doing something that only Oscar Robertson and Niccolo

Yonkly Okie in NBA history. I can't believe he's averaging 10 rebounds. Yeah. That's so hard to do. It's unbelievable. What a season he's having. And they've won eight in a row. What is it going to take?

You know what? Here on the Miss Match will celebrate the Atlanta Hawks. Every else wants to talk about Magic City. Here's my next love. They are going to love that in Turkey. Here's my next love. It's where my fans are. Joe Missoula just never stops being an absolute psycho,

and I love it so much. And like he's not necessarily in the conversation for coach of the year, but he should be. Look at the starting line. We just talk about their starting line up they put out there. But there is a post from SBN basketball. It says, quote, Joe Missoula once let the Celtics players make their own game plan

and choose their starters, telling his coaches to stay out of it. That game, the Celtics ended up beating the Raptors by 16. without Jalen Brown. You play 82 games a year, right? And like, why not just one day come in and be like, guys, you do it. Go ahead. We'll be in the hallway.

You pick the starters. You pick the game plan. Let us know. Why not? It's what the wizards do every night. I guess. Palo bin Carol's like, half time, don't we make adjustments? No?

No. I just love Joe Missoula. I'm not going to sit here and celebrate the Celtics anymore, but God, Joe Missoula is just a gift to the world. My next loat. People bailing on the pistons. You know, I think everybody's been sitting around waiting to be like, yeah, they're not what we thought they were.

I know you did. But look, they've got, they got, they got, they got, these last two wins. I promise you they're getting another one tonight against Memphis. So that'll be three in a row. Trust and believe. Are you going to be there? But look, man, they've had a top 10 offense.

We have a whole season of sample size, right? And they've been ninth in offense. And they've been second in defense. And this is a team that has brought an honest effort nightly throughout this entire NBA season. and the second they went through even not like a losing stretch a stretch where they went

500 it's like yep K's MVP seasons it's over and the pistons are frauds and it's like hold on hold on like I promise you nobody wants to see them when it comes playoff time

I know the Knicks don't want to see it when it comes playoff time and nobody else does it's like I felt like the second that they weren't just mauling everybody and unbelievable, everybody bailed on them. And so I will be the one that's still on the pistons. I'll be the one that's still on them because they need to be respected for what they

pulled off this year. And everybody can do the, yeah, but when they get to the playoffs, we've saw, we know, we've seen, you know, when they've played against some of these teams, you know, that they're going to need secondary creation. And those are all like, legit. get concerns, but I feel like the concerns that people have about them are highlighted in a way that the concerns about the other teams are not. You know what I'm saying?

Everybody was looking for a reason why the pistons aren't as good as what you think they are. And then the second anybody got any kind of sample size that could prove that, it was like, see, you know what I mean? And it's like, so let me be the one to tell you, I ain't, I'm not off of them. They're, they're allowed to have a lame stretch like everybody else is, right? They're, and, but I felt like with that team, they were not allowed to have a lame stretch or else it was going to become.

Yeah, but look who the number one seat is and they're kind of susceptible. Like, we did this last year with the calves. We did this last year with the calves. Yes. I mean, yes. And that was, what else did they have to show us during the regular season last year

that they were the best team in the Eastern Conference? They won whatever, 60-something games. And now this year, the Pistons, it's like, yeah, but,

yeah, but. Did it with Utah when they had Donovan, it's usually Donovan Mitchell teams that win 60 games and flame out. I mean, but I'm just saying, I think because of the way this team lunch pails it,

I think that my concern, honestly was not that they're not what you think they are. My concern was the tortoise and the hair thing. That like there's only the young team so many times like every game they play like it matters. Whereas a lot of these like vet laden teams, they crank it up at the right time. They want to be, they know when they want to be healthy and playing their best basketball. And that's post-all-star break. Now we're to stretch run last 20 games.

Let's really lock in. whereas that team's been locked in all season, all season. And that may be a tortoise and the iron thing. That's my concern more so than all the holes you can poke in them. In the end, we've got a pretty big sample size that they're a good offense and an amazing defense. And I think that if you're writing them off, I'm one of the writer, I'm one of the writer's offers. That's who I am. Yeah, don't write them off.

I write them off. Nope. When you've got an amazing defense and a guy that can be the best player on the floor any given night, you've got to choose. Here's my next loathe. This is like the Hornets thing. And it's our fault. Everyone decided that Luca complains too much. And like that became the story about Luca Donchitz for like a week and a half.

And he does complain a lot. But I think that we're taking him for granted as a basketball player because I'm, I'm watching the stupid game last night against the Bulls. And he's getting, he's, he's not even breaking a sweat. He's like not even trying and just like slowly hitting turnaround baseline jumpers from 12 feet. Like, easily. Pull, pull up threes, little stepbacks at half speed. Just 51 points, dude.

And it's like, he complains too much and doesn't get back on defense. You'll never win with Luca. It's kind of like the business thing that you, were saying. It's like, what is it going to take? He scored 51 points. And he also, he also, it was 51, 10, and nine. And you did you see what he said on the bench? I think it was Vando went up to him and was like, you know, you've got your one assists away from a triple double. He was like, I don't care. He was just like, whatever. I think he was just bored of scoring. No, he, last night, he had one goal in mind. And that was

to emasculate modest Muzellas. He did. Who, for what reason, I'll never know, poked the bear? Like, they owe that performance to Bezellis, because you can see him yelling at him, like, immediately, and it was like, oh, buddy. He does, see, now you pissed him off.

This is, you remember, like, the Rudy Go Bear game? When he's, like, pick somebody that he hates, when Luca picks somebody that he hates, it's, it's like, he is motivated, he's a, it's, uh, it's like, Star Wars. Like, yeah, the dark side is stronger. And when Luca is angry, he is unstoppable. Buzellis was really feeling himself probably after that 41 point game that he had, you know, he, the night that Bamadabio had 41 point or 83 points, Bezellis had 41. Nobody

cared. No one cared. Also. Do you remember campaign was like, this is my night tonight? It was. It was his night. He had a career high, 32. Exactly. Yeah. Imagine someone else scored 83. Because I'm at 41. Damn at 32. Yeah, but I mean, Bezellis, I mean, you're a little too big for your bridges. Like, all right, hey, slow down, buddy. You scored 41 in a game, but let's slow down before we start barking at Luca.

Yeah. And every once in a while, you will see somebody that stokes his ire. And then he just decides, all right, I'm going to show you who I am. Sometimes it's a fan. Sometimes it's not even someone in the game. It looks like a fan. Sometimes it's a fan. And by the way, you can blame Zach Lowe.

Zach Lowe's viral clip of, I mean, he, because he kicked the door open. He made it okay for everybody to start saying, this guy's annoying. And that became the conversation. It's Zach Lowe's fault. I'm going to get uninvited to the live show on Monday for sure. Good thing he doesn't listen to the mismatch. Yeah, no chance he's listening. Does he live in Turkey?

No. Then he doesn't listen to the mismatch. Does he have a U.S. passport? yes, not a mismatch fan. Right. Yeah, so by the way, they're third in the Western Conference.

Go look at the standings this morning. We've talked about this in the last episode. It's like, they're third. All I do is talk about how bad the Lakers are and how they don't play defense and how they're the worst team and what's LeBron going to do next year. And everything that comes out of my mouth

about the Lakers is negative. And then you look at it and be like, oh, one again. Yeah, they're there. Oh. Yeah, third. They're in the West. They're third.

Yeah, better record than nuggets. This Western Conference down the stretch is going to be out of control great because they're all bunched up. I mean, there's like two and a half games separating all of them. The difference between the way the seating is going to be dependent upon literally one game. And whether or not you get ousted in the first round or you're going to. getting to play a couple of rounds is going to be totally dependent on how that draw. I guarantee you this. There's going to be one game where someone loses to the jazz,

someone loses to the Mavs, someone loses to the Grizzlies. And that's going to put them from the third seed to the six seed because Cam Spencer scored 45. And it's going to be the one they regret. Exactly. It's going to happen. Yep. Guaranteed. My last love, another shot to an Easter conference team that could because the East, all of a sudden we already were going through the Hornets being hot. I just told you

a historic season by Jalen Johnson and Atlanta's got eight in a row and Orlando finally got cracking. Orlando Magic. Orlando Magic. Orlando Magic. Now they have, we're about to find out

with them. So let me just go ahead and put this caveat in. We're about to find out. because they've got the heat tomorrow night, which is Saturday night, who are also hot. Then they have at the heat, at Atlanta, OKC, Hornets, Lakers.

So we are going to find out in these next five games how high we should be on this. But they're on a six-game winning streak. And even if you go back to the end of February, they won those two games against the L.A. teams by a bucket each. And they're only two losses. And I think that was like February 22nd.

They won those. But we just saw the NICs go 0 and two. And we saw the wolves go 0 and two. And that's that same L.A. stretch. So they won those two games. There are only two losses since then, since they won those two games in L.A.

were a close game against Houston and Detroit. So those are super noble losses. Yeah. Like amongst those. And over the last 10 games, so that's 10 games of which are 8 and 2, Desmond Bain's average 25 a game on 55% shooting, 43% from 3. And Pollo's average 25 a game on 51% shooting, 9 rebounds, almost 6 assists the game. Paulo and Bain have figured out like, and it's kind of interesting the way this has played out,

and it's going to be super interesting when the Franz thing comes back because I think they were missing Anthony Black too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they've got the two stars that are playing like big time stars. There's a real pecking order.

And then they've got these three other like role players. De Silva has been unbelievable playing off of them. Suggs and Wendell Carter. And it's like it just works because it's like teams have to be constructed with stars and role players. And it does feel, you know, the same way that everybody wants to, every time the Lakers play well without LeBron,

like it's not necessarily about, that's not an indictment of LeBron. It's the way basketball works. Like how many guys do you have on the court that are, that are sacrificing and don't need the ball to be able to really contribute to the team? because that's what really makes you star in your role, like Wendell Carter, like Tristan de Silva,

like so these guys can play off of the other guys. And it's the thing that makes the Franz thing probably a little clunky. And that's no demerit to Paulo Franz or Bain. It's just, you know, when one is extracted and you're surrounding them just the way it all works. And again, we will see. I'm not telling you that either of those teams ceiling is higher without the guys.

But that is sometimes the way it works and it enables the other ones to play more freely. And you kind of know like this guy takes the most shots. This guy takes the second most shots. And the rest of you, you chip in. And Orlando's really found their way with these guys. And they went for it and made a huge trade to try to get Desmond Bain. And everybody was kind of scoffing at it throughout this season.

Like, well, that didn't play out. out like you thought it was going to play out. And now they just keep flying up the standings with Paolo and Bain both playing amazing simultaneously. And it's like, okay, this is kind of what the vision was. The vision was to have France first, too, but there is something to be said from what you said, which is just everyone's got a clearly defined role. And it does help that Bain is playing his best basketball in a magic uniform that he has

to this point. And De Silva is just like the last few games has been out of control. Awesome. I mean, he's in the last, so you look at it. You got to silver notes? This is exactly what you. You got to silver research in the spinal. He's 55.

He's 55% from the field over the last 10. I mean, because I wrote down, he's 55% and Wendell Carter is 60%. So that's when, that's when you know, right? I mean, Windows Carter is killing it. It's around the basket. I understand. But I'm saying the stars are killing it. And then these role players, they're getting these great shots,

but they get great shots playing off of these guys. And now it's going to be, it's going to be interesting because you've got a little while until, I mean, we have no time until we're going to find out. At Heat, at Atlanta, O KC Hornets, Lakers. I mean, it's a gauntlet. A gunt. So we'll see if this is real.

But, you know, we're going on. I marked February 22nd. It's March 13th now. So we're going on almost a month of them playing really good basketball. Orlando magic. Or let's the song. Oh. My next love is.

Shout out to Turkey. I'll make this quick for my people in Pakistan. Where are most of our listeners from? Turkey? Russia. Hungary. Australia. Australia is.

We're huge in New Zealand. Australia is big. The Kiwis love us. Love us. Big. Yeah. We're the biggest pot in Australia. Yeah, I'm going to get one of those.

I'm going to go, I'm going to do a live show in New Zealand. And I'm going to get one of those like tattoos while during the live show all over my body. Yeah. I'm a pet of koala too. I did that already. Do you know what the call's name was? They say they're mean, right? They say they're mean, though.

They are. But do you know what the koala's name was that I pet? Orlando, Orlando Magic, named Orlando. It meant to be. Next, I'm going to make this quick. The Yokic Murray duo is just out of control. I mean, last night was a great example of it. The game against the Rocker, it's a great example of it.

But like, there's a stat. Don't laugh. I got a stat. You could have done this literally any time in the last decade. Exactly. I got a stat, though, Verna. No. I have a stat.

So, wait, can I get this right? Your last two have been, Luca's awesome and Murray and Yokic are awesome. I'm out of here. I'm leaving. I was just checking. I'm leaving. Yeah, Luca's awesome.

I have a stat. I want to give you a very interesting stat. Please, please. You know what? You know what, Ferno? You're going to love this. The number one assist duo in the lead. Yokic to Murray.

The number four assist duo in the lead, Murray Teokos. Oh, I do love it. All right, who's two and three? Can I guess? No, I don't have in front of me. But what I'm telling you is, I don't have it in front of me. I had the number one and the number four. I think it's Caden Dern.

God damn it. Are you serious? You make me look to something out? No. Unbelievable. What are you? Dude, I just had a. top. That was a bar. That was like a mic drop moment and you ruined it. You're supposed to sell

you. You're my co-host. No, ESPN stats and info used to do this all the time and it would make me want to break my laptop. They would be like, oh, this is the third time in NBA history that a guy has had 36, 13, and 12. And I'd be like, all right. Who's number one and no two? What are the other three times. Like, it's not, you have to be able to tell me what the other ones are. That's the first thing any normal person would ask. I asked, who were they up there with? Who are they even competing with? Larry to Yolkich. Oh, no, this is the missing here. God damn it. Unbelievable.

They have Halliburton and Turner is number two on chat, GBT. And then Trilloperton. You ruined my stat. Go on to your last load. I'm out of here. that is crazy bro. All right. Number one and number four. You can't think of another duo in the history of the NBA. I've been doing this with Max Kellerman and Rich Paul of the Game Over show, which you should follow on Spotify.

And we can't think of another duo that's even close to doing something like that. Think about it. Like, Caram alone wasn't dishing to Stockton. Yeah, that's fair. Pippin wasn't dishing to Jordan. Oh, that's right. And vice versa. Like, I can't think of another duo that it's something like this.

I mean, we thought maybe, the fact that it is Manu Duncan or Parker Duncan maybe Like I can't think of another duo that doesn't see You're back in I told you we're gonna love it Yeah, because it only goes one way Exactly When you think of great duos like Even like a Wade LeBron thing

They're not assisting to each other It's hard. Yeah, that play because even Taden Brown Right, have been together a long time But they're not setting screens for each other Like this is like this is unprecedented That's why I'm celebrating this duo And I don't care if you don't like it for no

I'm gonna you know what I recaptured that tape Maybe I recaptured that from you Maybe like a maybe like a You did love it I'm trying to I did in retrospect Yeah that was pretty overreacted I won I won this argument

I'm trying to think maybe like it's got to be a big guy Exactly More than likely Duncan It's got to be a Or it's got Maybe like a sub fox a bonus type of thing. Right?

You can see that happening. Yeah. It's like Fox a bonus. And one, you know, because now he's cutting and he's just dishing it to him. And he's not going to like a Draymond Curry.

Oh yeah. That's a good one. But then I was like, I was, yeah, you're right. But then I said to myself, can you get with a guy

that averages six points of game. That's the thing. I said to myself, I was like, I was arguing with him. I was like, well, Draymond had eight,

he's average 18 one year. And I was like, wait a second. Let me look that up. He didn't average 18 one year. You have 14. 14 is the most he ever average. See, that's, it's a tough one.

So unprecedented. I love this duo. I won this argument and I'm proud of myself. What's your last load? My last load is so got pretty dark on the NBA timeline for about, I don't know, six to eight hours with all of this horrible Dwight Howard divorce stories. And it's like child custody battles and mansion battles and 9-1-1 calls and all it's just huge bags of cocaine allegedly.

Yeah. Yeah, it's just messy and awful. A personal assistant is also suing him. And it's like it's just a mess. And then I wake up, I wake up this morning and the headline is Dwight Howard announced this retirement. I'm like, hold on a second. He got inducted into the Hall of Fame last year.

It's a good point. I didn't think of that. Like, this is the most see-through, push-down headlines, retirement announcement in the history. I like this. It's for SEO. It's just for search and optimization. If you Google Dway down and click news, retirement is the person that comes up.

Brilliant. Well, but it's backfired because now if you type it in, it says, Dwight Howard announced his retirement shortly after horrible accusations. I'm going to

this didn't work. Now it just highlighted Dwight Howard announced a retirement in middle of ugly divorce. Oh, the New York Times does

Dwight Howard announces retirement after 18 NBA seasons quote, I'm taking off the cape. All right. Okay, so we got the New York Times to include it. The rest of the headlines all included the words amidst.

Yeah. And it's like, well, now you just highlighted it more. You never want a midst near your name. Ever. Ever. You don't understand. And that is like living in the social media world. You don't realize how many people don't even know.

Like there's a lot of people that are listening to this and don't even know that the first thing was going on. But it's like, okay, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to announce my retirement so that. even if somebody Googles my name, it's going to push it down because now this is going to, the big story with me is going to be that I'm retiring, even though literally nobody cares. Yeah. There's not one person out there been like, oh, man, Dwight Howard's retiring.

Like, bro, he hasn't played in like seven years and is already in the Hall of Fame. Like, is Carl Malone going to. I know, I'm going to announce. I'm just going to hear by announce that I'm no longer with the entertainment sports programming network. I'm going to announce that here on the mismatch. Make that clear. I have retired. I have retired.

I have retired. I have retired. My wife, who again, we got in an argument because I wanted her to watch the Thunder and the Nuggets earlier this week. She got, she called me immature. She's like, I don't care about sports. She forwarded me the Dwight Howard video. that's where he's at wouldn't even watch the end of the

of the Thunder Nuggets but she's like did you see this about Dwight Howard my final I am officially announcing my retirement where I was like from what it's also like 400 words okay okay bro all right

Dwight allegedly I'm just going to say allegedly I don't even know what in regards to what but just allegedly for all Dwight Howard nonsense. Allegedly. All Dwight Howard. He did try to stick his finger in that guy's butt one time.

No, that was Josh Hart. That was the Knicks. No, no, no. That did happen. Oh, do you think he was officially announcing his retirement so the Knicks wouldn't sign him? Stop. Stop. Berno?

Behave. Bad, Verno. Behave. I told you I was going to be awesome. You're doing a great job. My final load is this, man. This city is great. It's beautiful.

The people are beautiful. Everyone's healthy and skinny and smiling and tanned. But God damn, the traffic is awful. I just can't stand sitting there going nowhere. Like, that's why I like New York. Even though it takes a long time to get somewhere, you're moving. You're on the subway.

You're walking. You're on a bike. You're moving. But you're just sitting there. And you're going to the airport. I'm going to the airport later today. I'm going to put it into Uber and it's going to be like one hour and 15 minutes, six miles. I'm going to be like, why don't I just walk?

Like it's just, it's so frustrating. Going to the Clipper game, the game starts at 7.30. We're at Bill's house. 6 o'clock. You guys got to leave. I can, an hour and I can't, right now you're in Memphis. In an hour and a half, you could be in a different state. You could be an hour and a half, you could be 100 miles away from your home right now.

In an hour and a half, it's like 4.5 miles. and you just sit there and you just look at the person next to me in the car and you listen to music. And the only thing that made it tolerable was just the brilliance of Van Lathen because he's so fun to talk to. So, you know, sitting in traffic was easier with him. But I'm going to the airport later. I'm looking up trains I can take. Like, I just can't do this. I can't sit in traffic like this.

It drives me nuts. Can I just do a recap real quick? No, no, and the show. I know what you're going to do. No, no, I know what you're doing. Hey, I know what you're doing, Vernal. Before you do it, I can see it at your face. Don't do it.

End the show. Say, we'll see you next week. Hold on. Kauai is awesome. Shut up. Yokic and Marie are awesome. Luca doesn't get enough credit. L.A. traffic sucks.

Do I have that right? Okay. You literally had Kauai is your first love. So that's a good. I did. Okay. All right. And then you had one stat about Jalen,

You cherry picked the stats and make Jalen Johnson sound awesome. Nobody, nobody knew that. And in the team that won eight games in a row, you're celebrating. Nobody knew that. You don't like that the star player got kicked out for no reason. Yep.

Perfect, perfect one. That was great. And then you've got, yeah, oh, everyone's out on the pissons except for me. Yeah. Just trying to plant. Perfect. See, that is, see, what you're forgetting is we don't have anyone

that listens in Detroit. You're pandering to a fan base that does. Yes, we do. We don't have domestic listeners. They're all in Turkey. We're huge. No, we're huge in Detroit. And then you have Dwight,

Dwight Howard retired. No, that I hated his announcement because it was, it was a vicious attempt to change the algorithm to him retiring, even though he's in the hall of fame. That was pretty good. I'll give you the Dwight Howard House. It's outrageous. It is outrageous to be in the Hall of Fame.

And be like, and I would like to do it. announce I have officially retired. On Tuesday's show, you're like, I'm going to crush it on Friday. And then what do you do at the end of the show? You're like, Jacoby, you suck. You pushing me down doesn't lift you higher. Just so you know.

It doesn't. Thank the producer. A guy came to me last night. Oh, God. I'm in the teams. I'm in the team store. I'm in the team store after the game last night. Haley wanted to.

And I'm shopping. No. She wanted to. to Gigi Jackson. And so we're sitting there. And a guy comes up to me. And he's like, hey, man, he says, he's, I listen all the time, big fan, blah, blah, blah.

Do you listen to KOC and Jacoby? I said, Of course not. I said, no. No, I didn't listen to it. They said, yeah, they talked about you a lot. And I said, oh, they did? And he was like, yeah.

He was like, yeah, you should listen to it. And I was like, yeah, maybe I'll do that. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. I'm just letting you know that like there, there's people out there that that told me that I needed to listen to that. So I don't know.

I look, I didn't, I didn't go after you because of that. But it feels like you're trying to draw that parallel. You're trying to say, I'm trying to push you down now. You were trying to push me down. You're like, if I make Jacoby look bad, that makes me look good. But that's not how it is. I try to sell you. I think if you look.

look good, I look good. I'm Paul Mitchell. I'm Paul Mitchell. Oh, oh, okay. Okay. If you don't look good, we don't know. Oh, okay. Paul Mitchell. All right. Well, then you're, then you're going to be intensely comfortable when next week, I meet, I have already planned a podcast with Jaylen Rose. Good. I look forward to it. I'll listen to it. Intensely. You would never, you would never listen to that. No. Of course not. You didn't listen to me in KOC. for sure not thank our producers you guys can both go to hell prospector next week

the prospect she's coming trust me I'm ordering it now do it and I'm going to go and I'm going to go look up the assistant duo we're on Netflix we're on Netflix get ready it's going to be called the prospect we're going to change the name

from the misch to the prospector and then they're just going to have me in this big brown hat and I'll get like one of those like Sam Ellie and moustaches and a pickax. Oh, it's going to be great. Oh, yeah. And he,

he, do you know what happened is Dwight Howard announced his retirement from NBA because now he's going to officially join the mismatch. It's going to be me, Jacoby, the prospector and Dwight Howard.

Next week, Tuesday. It's going to do it for today's show. Thanks to Jeff. Thanks to Stefan for making it happen. And Jacoby, I'll talk to you next.