Latest Details on the Kawhi-Clippers Saga With Howard Beck, Picking Team USA With Bill Simmons, Mopey Mets Corner, and Much More

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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We kick off another Zach Lowe Show with the story taking the NBA by storm, the Kawhi Leonard–Clippers scandal (2:03). There's new reporting out today, as well as reactions from the board of governors meeting this week. Next, Zach goes through some news items, including his take on a new rule about end-of-the-quarter heaves (36:28). Spoiler alert: Some booing was done. Then, Bill Simmons comes on for a fun exercise (44:06): picking the 2028 USA men’s basketball team! Who’s in, who’s out, and who did Bill shock Zach with on his roster? Finally, with the Mets' playoff hopes hanging in the balance, a somber Mets Corner with Big Wos (1:12:23) turns into a therapy session. Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Howard Beck, Bill Simmons, and Wosny Lambre Producers: Jesse Aron, Jonathan Frias, and Steve Ceruti Get started today at HubSpot.com/AI Unfold more with the new Galaxy Z Fold7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, coming up after this on a loaded Zach Lowe show,
0:04.1	we're going to go in a lot of different directions,
0:05.6	but we have to start with Pablo Torre, who just keeps on finding out,
0:10.9	dropped a new podcast this morning with fresh details connecting the Clippers
0:16.3	and Steve Balmer's college roommate to the shady company aspiration
0:20.6	that paid Kauai Leonard
0:22.7	a lot of money to do a lot of nothing in 2022. And it's unclear how much money he actually got
0:28.6	because he's still kind of a creditor of this fraudulent company. But, you know, Board of
0:32.2	Governors met yesterday, Adam Silver talked about the importance of this investigation, how he's
0:36.4	going to approach it. We'll discuss that. Adam Silver's remarks, some of which struck me as a little bit surprising, frankly, and how the whole thing, I think, changes because of what Pablo dropped today, including my prediction for how this is going to unfold. Then we're going to shift gears. Some guy named Bill Simmons is going to come on. Eurobasket is happening and it's got me thinking about the 2028 Olympics, how it's
0:57.7	going to be a little harder for Team USA, how some of our old holdovers who carried us even in
1:02.6	2024 in Paris might not be there.
1:04.7	We're going to pick our ideal Team USA roster for 2028.
1:08.6	Bill's a big international basketball guy.
1:10.2	It would be fun.
1:11.7	And then, Metz Corner. It's not going to be, it's not going to be pleasant. Met's Corner. But we got to do
1:19.3	it. That's part of being a sports fan, the pain, the agony. All of that, and that's Big Wazers,
1:23.7	by the way, debut on Met's Corner. All of that coming up after this on The Zach Lowe
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