Jayson Tatum is Back! Plus, the Players We Love to Watch and a Raptors Check-In.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Zach is joined by Chris Ryan to react to the news that Jayson Tatum may be ready to return. Then, they draft the players they love and hate to watch and share their thoughts on Luke Kornet vs. Magic City. Next, voice of the Raptors Jack Armstrong comes on to discuss the Raptors since their title win and what the future holds for this year’s team. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show! (2:27) Chris Ryan joins the show! (3:02) Jayson Tatum is nearly back (9:11) Drafting players we love to watch (48:21) Drafting players we hate to watch (56:59) Luke Kornet vs. Magic City (1:04:13) Jack Armstrong joins the show! (1:06:53) How would you describe the post-title time for the Raptors (1:19:34) Don’t think I see the roadmap for this team becoming great (1:31:35) Is Scottie Barnes good enough to be ‘the guy’ Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Chris Ryan and Jack Armstrong Producers: Mike Wargon, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at Claude.ai/lowe 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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0:00.0	Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, the great Chris Ryan is here.
0:10.0	It's CR Month on the rewatchable, so we have them on here,
0:13.0	CR Day on the Zach Lowe show.
0:15.0	Jason Tatum is back right in the nick of time before we record it,
0:18.5	so we talk all about the implications for the Celtics,
0:38.9	what Tatum will look like, what role he'll fill, and all of that. Then remember the Marcusol All-Stars, a column I used to write for Grantland and other places, just favorite players to watch. That's it. Chris and I both picked a starting five of our favorite players to watch and a couple anti-Marcosol All-Stars guys that we maybe hate watch.
0:42.4	And all of that got us talking about a lot of different stuff.
0:46.8	Nick's Thunder, Mike Brown lashing out at the officiating vis-a-vis the Thunder,
0:49.8	joining a growing chorus of coaches who were doing that.
0:54.1	The Cavs and the Cavs recent shirts, the Rockets, the Spurs, lots of other stuff. And of course, we talked about Jared Bicane and the Sixers and the Thunder because Chris is here. We talked about Luke Cornett versus Magic City. Not so much Nuggets Talk, but exciting announcement. The Zach Lowe show is coming live to Denver, Colorado. That's right. Denver, we're bringing the show to you at the Fillmore Auditorium
1:11.4	on April 13th. Tickets go on sale March 9th, Monday, March 9th at 10 a.m. Mountain Time. Come join the
1:19.9	Zach Lowe show and special guests at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, April 13th,
1:24.3	right before the playoffs. Again, tickets go on sale to ringer.com slash events. March 9th, 10 a.m. Check out the ringer.com slash events for more details. Zach Lowe's show coming live to Denver. Zach Lowe show coming into your ears with Chris Ryan and Jack Armstrong. Hello to talk about the Raptors right after this. The Zach Lowe show is brought to you by Fandul.
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