Jaren Jackson Jr. Out Indefinitely and a Look at the Tanking Crisis

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Zach is joined by The Athletic's Fred Katz to go through the biggest news and notes in the association, including Jaren Jackson Jr. being shut down for the remainder of the season. Then, they discuss the tanking epidemic and share ways to improve it before closing the show by revealing their best player fits after the trade deadline. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show! (2:06) Fred Katz joins the show! (3:20) Aftermath of Pistons-Hornets brawl (12:11) Jayson Tatum practices (24:00) Brandon Ingram named All-Star replacement for Steph Curry (29:12) What will the Suns look like moving forward? (25:03) Jaren Jackson Jr. will miss the remainder of the season (44:55) De’Aaron Fox has replaced Giannis in the All-Star Game (46:51) The tanking crisis is here like it's never been before (1:01:39) How the NBA could fix its tanking problems (1:17:10) Best player fits after the deadline (1:24:34) Jeremy Sochan signs with the Knicks Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Fred Katz Producers: Mike Wargon, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto This episode is presented by State Farm®️. Dishing the assists you need off the court. State Farm®️ with the Assist. Thousands of cars and the largest online selection of vehicle parts. 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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0:34.3	Coming up on the Zach Lowe's show, we got Fred Katz from the Athletic and the Cats
0:40.7	and Shoot podcast here. A lot of news, including some news that broke during the podcast about
0:46.1	suspensions and all-star selections that I don't really understand, but hey, whatever, team
0:51.3	see, go team C, whichever Team C, whichever team that is.
0:55.7	And we got Tatum news this week.
0:58.0	We got Embed news this week.
0:59.7	We got a brawl and suspensions that came out of the brawl.
1:03.5	And Jaron Jackson Jr., this morning it was announced he's going to miss the rest of the season.
1:07.8	And what seems like a tanky move and is, you know, not at least not inconvenient for the tanking. And that's going to get us into a discussion about, look, we all know the tanking is happening. We all know this is as bad as it's ever been and as widespread as it's ever been. We've all discussed some of the proposals about how to at least calm it, ease it, band-aided here and there, we just start asking the
1:29.7	question, is it time to at least thinking, to at least start thinking about something more
1:34.1	radical, stuff that has just never sat right in my soul before, but stuff that it might actually
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