One Question for Each NBA Cup Team. Plus, Giannis Thoughts and All-Stars Picks With Tim Legler.

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Zach is joined by Tim Legler to answer one question for each NBA Cup quarterfinal team (2:30). Then they talk through their favorite Giannis fits (37:15) before closing the show by revealing their All-Star picks (1:15:33). Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Tim Legler 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. Learn more and join waitlist at ScoutMotors.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Paris Pizzeriere. Your blind dates is already at the table and here she is. Cousin Brenda, what are you doing here? You're married anyway! Substitution brought to you by Paddy Power. Cousin' Brenda makes me for Beth, the office crush. Oh, get in! You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver. Because with Paddy's Super Sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Panny Power. Valid on selected leagues and
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0:28.2	apply. 18 plus scummelaware. Dot org. Coming up on the Zach Glow show, it's Monday.
0:38.7	A lot of stuff happened over the weekend in the NBA.
0:41.4	More Janus noise.
0:42.8	LeBron's double-digit streak is over.
0:45.2	The NBA Cup is coming up this week as a lot of other teams get some rest time.
0:49.8	Tim Legler from ESPN, you know him, you love him. You love his iPad breakdowns. He is here to help
0:55.5	me preview all four NBA Emirates Cup quarterfinals games, one by one, big questions facing each
1:02.3	team. We're going to talk Janus. Yep, we're going to talk Janus. We're going to talk some other
1:05.9	weekend developments. Jonathan Kaminga got benched. The Bulls stink. Some other stuff happened over the weekend. He's going to pick his all-star teams. I already picked my preliminary all-star teams. I flip-flopped one player already. We're going to see where we came out there and just talk all things, NBA, lots of stuff going on. It's going to be a good show. Tim Legler is the best in the business. Enjoy it.
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2:05.2	Welcome to Zach Zach Lowe Show.
2:06.4	It's Monday morning.
2:09.4	Tim Legler from ESPN is here, the best in the business.
2:11.8	He's helping us out at the ringer slash Spotify this year.
2:13.0	Legs, what's going on?
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