Eastern Conference Roundup and Trade Preview With Mo Dakhil

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Zach is joined by Mo Dakhil to untangle the crowded Eastern Conference field. They discuss whether anyone will challenge the Knicks and Cavs (8:10), whether Atlanta needs to move on from Trae Young (33:42), and why the Celtics are outperforming expectations (48:04). Plus, they list the players they think could be on the move, including what they think the Hornets will do with LaMelo Ball (1:11:48). Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Mo Dakhil Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.8	exclusions apply. 18 plus scumannware.org. All right, coming up on the Zach Lowe show, I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
0:40.2	There was a lot of basketball.
0:41.4	There was a lot of Emirates Cup basketball.
0:43.2	We binged a lot of games and we got a lot to talk about.
0:45.9	And luckily, we've got the one and only Moe to kill here for Mondays with Moe bounce around the NBA.
0:52.0	We're going to focus on the East.
0:53.7	Holy smokes, how muddled is the East
0:55.9	from top to almost bottom. Everyone's jammed up. What's real? What's not real? How are the Celtics
1:02.6	winning with the number four offense in the NBA? The Knicks are hot. What's up with the
1:06.4	Cavs? 12 and 9 kind of middling on offense? Is it all health? Is it all injuries?
1:29.9	Or is there something else going on? Give some love to the Raptors, the heat. The magic without Bancaro, the Hawks without Trey Young. What's going on? Their Philly got their team back minus Kelly Ubray. But Embed played, Edgecombe played, George played. How'd they look in a crazy double overtime loss to the Atlanta Hawks? Then we're going to talk a little rapid fire Western Conference.
1:33.5	Trade season, not quite upon us, but we'll be coming soon.
1:40.4	What does the trade market start to look like for some of the high value, high salary players?
1:41.6	They may or may not become available.
1:42.2	Who's a buyer?
1:42.9	Who's a seller?
1:44.7	Mo and I will get into all of that coming up on The Zach Lowe Show. This episode of The Zach Lowe Show is presented by Amazon Prime.
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