“He was putting up monstrous games in the NBA Finals, including a 40-point game in Game 5,” Zach Lowe recalls of Jalen Williams, the player he placed at the very top of his pressure rankings. The…
Zach Lowe — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Zach Lowe has appeared on 13 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Zach Lowe Show, The Bill Simmons Podcast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Zach said
“No one is singing my girl. No one is doing the wave with in tune to the song. The crowd is totally dead.”
— Zach Lowe, describing the lifeless atmosphere at Citi Field.
“I don't think it's possible to be a ring chaser when you're almost 42 years old. You're upright and playing quality NBA basketball—go do whatever the hell you want.”
— Zach Lowe
“I am an absolutely elite waver as a driver. Like if you give me a courtesy, you're gonna see me wave at you from the car, and I'm gonna be enthusiastic about it.”
— Zach Lowe on the lost art of the driver's wave.
“If Jalen Brown was becoming a monster before this deal, he's becoming like Godzilla plus King Kong plus Mothra right now. And you know, he's coming for blood the first time they play.”
— Zach Lowe
“I think it's like it's it's beyond a no brainer. It's a Mike Ganze can't even fucking believe that that this trade is actually being executed and called into the league office.”
— Zach Lowe on the Sixers' perspective
“I fucking love that guy. I think he's gonna walk in and be a really good NBA player right away.”
— Zach Lowe on Cam Boozer
“Holy shit, that guy actually deflected this pass.”
— Zach Lowe on a specific Wemby defensive sequence in Game 5
Episode appearances
13
The NBA’s offseason earthquake was LeBron James signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, a move that reshapes the Eastern Conference and leaves several franchises—most notably the Golden State…
LeBron James Is a Philadelphia 76er At 4 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, LeBron James—the NBA's all-time leading scorer and arguably its greatest player—signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. By the time…
The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement has created a strange new puzzle for front offices: which players to lock into long-term extensions, and at what number. On the Zach Lowe Show, former…
The NBA offseason detonated on a single July afternoon. The Boston Celtics, after a decade of the Jays era, traded Finals MVP Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George, two…
NBA free agency is set to officially begin in roughly 35 hours, though the transaction period has been churning for weeks. The league is bracing for a flurry of moves centered on a handful of…
The NBA's offseason is a pressure cooker of egos, leverage, and brutal math. Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe sat down to dissect the most chaotic month in recent memory, and the conversation reveals a…
The uncertainty at the top of the upcoming NBA draft stems in part from Darren Peterson’s decision not to work out for the Utah Jazz, a development that Kyle Mann noted did not surprise the team…
The New York Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in 53 years, capping off a 16-3 playoff run with the greatest postseason point differential in NBA history. Zach Lowe is joined by lifelong…
The Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in 53 years, and the defining image of their run is Jalen Brunson scoring 45 points in a clinching Game 5 where his co-star, Karl-Anthony Towns,…
They were down 29 points in the second half of a game that would put them one win from their first title in 53 years. The crowd at Madison Square Garden had every reason to deflate. Instead, they…
The NBA Draft Lottery delivered a final, almost nostalgic outcome for the current system: the worst teams won. The Washington Wizards secured the first overall pick, the Utah Jazz landed at number…
The Timberwolves stole Game 1 in San Antonio despite Anthony Edwards playing just 25 minutes on a hyperextended knee and clearly not himself. Julius Randle waved Edwards off a late possession to…
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