OKC’s Dominance, NBA Cup Preview, and Mega-Trades With Howard Beck! Plus, Mets Corner With Sean Fennessey.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Zach is joined by Howard Beck to put into context just how good OKC is (6:30). Then, they preview the NBA Cup semifinals, before going through the history of mega-trades (46:47). Finally, Zach closes the show with a somber edition of Mets Corner with Sean Fennessey (1:23:38). Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Howard Beck and Sean Fennessey Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, we got a loaded day.
0:09.1	We're talking NBA Cup, the Thunder, won by so many points against Phoenix that I lost count.
0:15.1	24 and 1.
0:16.8	Can they break the all-time wins record?
0:18.6	Can they get to 33 straight wins?
0:20.6	Can anybody challenge them? Can the field-time wins record? Can they get to 33 straight wins? Can anybody challenge them?
0:22.9	Can the field challenge them at all? Are they hovering over the trade deadline and making people more aggressive to make trades or more fearful of making trades?
0:31.5	Howard Beck from the ringer, you might know him. He's here. He wrote a great column on the Janus and secondarily Anthony Davis
0:38.8	trade landscapes, how the Thunder's dominance, how the past mega trades that have all come
0:44.8	in the past five or six years, how their outcomes are affecting the trade market. He's here to talk
0:49.3	Thunder, all of that. Janus, Ad, we talk Nick's Magic and the other cup,
0:55.1	semifinals, lots of stuff to talk about.
0:56.8	And then,
0:57.7	it's been a rough week on Mets Corner.
1:02.0	Polar Bear is gone.
1:03.7	Diaz is a Dodger,
1:05.2	a freaking L.A. Dodger,
1:06.5	like they needed anything else.
1:07.8	That hurts.
1:09.0	My daughter's confused.
1:10.7	Fans are angry. Got a lot of holes to fill.
1:14.3	I didn't want to do another Mets Corner this week, but this merited an emergency Mets Corner.
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