NBA Finals Are Here! All the Info You Need from Podcast Row

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Zach is joined by a lineup of special guests to preview the NBA Finals, relive their favorite playoff moments, and settle a long-running beef once and for all. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show!(01:33) Gary Payton joins the show(04:44) Facing the Bulls in the Finals(06:30) Being involved with the future Seattle franchise(14:43) Tim Legler joins the show(20:19) Expectations for the Knicks offense(23:50) X-factors in the Finals(29:57) Robert Horry joins the show(36:48) Horry's time with the Lakers(42:37) Does Horry belong in the Hall of Fame?(47:12) Ian Begley joins the show(54:56) Could the Knicks be here with Tom Thibodeau?(58:16) The lowlights of Knicks(01:01:13) DeAndre Jordan joins the show(01:06:13) Clarifying the kidnapping story(01:11:35) How long will the series go? Host: Zach LoweGuests: Gary Payton, Tim Legler, Robert Horry, Ian Begley, and DeAndre JordanProducers: Jonathan Frias and Michael SzokoliSocial: Keith Fujimoto and Michael Szokoli The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, not your normal episode.
0:09.5	We are here in San Antonio at the NBA Finals.
0:12.6	We're at the arena.
0:13.6	They're setting up the t-shirts.
0:15.0	The Jumbotron is on the court.
0:16.4	I don't think it's supposed to be there.
0:18.1	And we have a pulpery of guests for the NBA's first ever podcast row.
0:22.8	Their answers to the NFL's radio row at the Super Bowl, I guess.
0:25.8	We got Ian Begley and Tim Legler to go X's and O's on the finals and the Knicks and all the things about this series.
0:32.4	And then we have some luminaries from NBA, past, present, and future talking about this series, telling stories
0:39.3	about their time in the NBA, their times in the finals. Gary Payton, legendary Seattle
0:44.2	Supersonic and Champion with the Miami Heat has some good stories about that and the Lakers.
0:48.4	We got Big Shot Bob, Big Shot Robert. He's going to tell us which one is actually right.
0:53.2	Robert Orie is here to tell a lot
0:55.0	of great stories and pick this series. And then DeAndre Jordan and I, we have a ceremonial burying of a certain hatchet that we will get into. And then we talk about DJ's career, the Clippers, the Nets, the NICs where Kyrie, Katie, and DJ really going to go to the NICs? He answers that question.
1:11.1	We get into all of that and more, including deep dives on this in Knicks where Kyrie, Katie, and DJ really going to go to the Knicks? He answers that question.
1:11.2	We get into all of that and more, including deep dives on this incredible Nick Spurs finals with
1:16.3	Tim Legler and Ian Begley.
1:17.8	That's all coming up next on a special Finals, San Antonio podcast Row edition of the Zach Lowe
1:24.2	Show.
1:38.8	All right, live from what they're apparently calling Podcast Row at the NBA finals in San Antonio,
1:43.4	one of the all-time great Hall of Famer, one of the all-time great defensive players,
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