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The Zach Lowe Show

NBA Latest, Training Camp Reports, and Favorite Non-Finals Teams With Chris Ryan

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Chris Ryan joins Zach, and they pick up with the latest intel he’s heard on the Fred VanVleet injury (1:41) before hitting the major topics coming out of training camp, including Anthony Edwards working on his post-up game (10:52). Plus, what are the issues in New York and Philly (18:07)? Then, time to go down memory lane as the pair draft their favorite non-Finals teams of the last 15 years (24:57), covering everything from almost champions to the final Process Sixers to Grit-and-Grind Grizz to whatever the Wizards were! Lastly, everyone’s favorite: Zach Remembers Some Guys (1:02:23). Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Chris Ryan Producers: Jesse Aron and John Richter 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

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0:54.4

Where is he on his beloved Sixers?

0:55.8

It's very hard to pin down where one should be on the most irrational NBA franchise of the last 15 years. And then a fun gimmick. We decided to do a draft. We don't do a lot of drafts on the Zach Lowe show, but there's not much going on the NBA. We did a draft, but we did a nerd draft. who did it my way.

1:09.7

Favorite teams, no criteria,

1:11.5

just teams you loved

1:12.8

from the last 15 years in the NBA. did a draft but we did a nerd draft who did it my way favorite teams no criteria just teams you

1:12.2

loved from the last 15 years in the NBA single season teams only criteria they didn't make the

1:18.4

finals you could pick a really funny bad whiz team you could pick a really beautiful spurs team

1:23.5

you could pick whatever teams you want we drafted five each we have a lot of honorable little in-memorium. We made a whole show of it. Chris was awesome. We picked a lot of similar teams, but a lot of different teams too. So it was a real fun segment. Hope you enjoy it. Coming up on the Zach Lowe Show. This episode of the Zach Lowe Show is presented by HubSpot. using only 20% of your business data is like going from a starting five to a starting one.

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2:04.5

Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show. Chris Ryan is here. We're going to spend about, I don't know, 90 minutes talking about the Sixers and how if everything clicks into place, this could be the year. Chris, how are you? I'm doing well. I'm in the best shape of my life. I mean, 15 pounds of muscle? Yeah. Whatever Embed's on, I'm on. I'm really happy to be here, Zach. I'm glad we could reach across the NL East Isle and create content together. As I've said to you and Sean, who doesn't understand, I have no animus toward the Philadelphia Phillies. All my animus is still aimed at the Braves, the Yankees, and the St. Louis Cardinals. I missed all the, I missed Chase Sutley, apparently going hockey going on a Mets player. I don't know what you're referring to. We have a fun gimmick that we're going to do, but before we get there, we've got to bounce around the league a little bit, because there's been some news. Always news on Media Day. And as you know, Chris, anything that is said on Media Day, you need to take with complete and utter earnestness because it's for sure

3:09.2

true and definitely going to remain true for the rest of the season. And definitely you should just take

3:13.4

it very seriously. But the first thing is I want to do a little bit more on Fred Van Vleet, tearing his ACL.

3:20.1

I talked about it with Bill yesterday. We went through all the trade possibilities. I'm not really

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