Best NBA Summer Arguments With Zach Lowe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Zach Lowe fresh off Summer League to discuss the hottest NBA news, including rumors of a new international basketball league, the Pelicans, and the Kings (3:17). They also react to the Clippers making some significant offseason moves and L.A. being a possible landing spot for Giannis in the future (30:13). Finally, they talk about the Heat in the upcoming season, LeBron James, and more (55:04). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by the Ringer podcast network where we have a new
0:35.6	rewatchables coming on Monday. Just did one. We did
0:38.1	Species on Monday. Me, Chris Ryan Bain-Lathen, an incredible CR performance. He's been on fire
0:44.0	all summer. You can watch that on the Ringer movies YouTube channel. Really, really funny
0:47.9	podcast. Fantasy football season, we're in range now. Week one of the NFL season kicks off really six Thursdays from now.
0:58.2	So we're in range.
0:59.3	We have the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, which I think is the best fantasy football
1:02.4	podcast.
1:03.0	Craig Horlebeck, Danny Kelly, Danny Highfits.
1:05.5	And you can watch that as a podcast, as a video podcast.
1:09.5	You can watch them on YouTube because we have a fantasy football YouTube channel.
1:12.9	And you can check out the Ringer Fantasy Football Guide that we did, which we keep adding to and adding different things.
1:20.3	So we will have you ready for fantasy football.
1:22.9	Those guys will be coming on at some point here.
1:24.8	You can see in the background.
1:26.6	So I have a new set that we have not
1:28.8	decorated yet. I put some stuff up in the background that's not even on the wall. It's like leaning
1:33.4	against up, but you can see, do my finger. There's 1972 MBA tops on cut. There's my book poster
1:41.1	with the Hall of Fame thing. You can see Bird of Magic's feet up there.
1:46.0	The Fenway sign.
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