The 30 Most Intriguing NBA Playoff Guys, With Zach Lowe

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe preview the 2026 NBA playoffs on the final day of the regular season before doing a draft of the most intriguing guys in the playoffs (0:32). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Zach Lowe Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Chris Wohlers Bundle and Save Book now on Expedia.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The It's the Bill Simmons podcast.
0:35.2	I'm here with Zach Lowe, Sunday night, live on Netflix. I am so glad we waited
0:40.9	because I would have bet anything heading into that day that Denver was going to be our number
0:45.9	four seed, not our number three seed. But no, they beat San Antonio. Anyway, Zach's in Denver,
0:50.9	because he is doing a live show there tomorrow night. I have a new rewatchables coming tomorrow.
0:55.8	It is a live show we did last week in San Francisco Basic Instinct.
0:59.6	So get ready for that.
1:00.4	There's also a new ringer podcast coming.
1:03.2	I wanted to mention on Tuesday that you can follow, subscribe now.
1:07.8	It's a narrative podcast called Legata.
1:11.8	And if you like Miami Vice in the 80s and drugs and cocaine and great stories and all
1:18.4	kinds of things like that, which I do, get ready for Legata, two episodes coming on Tuesday.
1:24.8	All right, Zach Lowe.
1:26.0	Yeah.
1:26.6	Do you want to start west or east?
1:28.8	Because shit went down today.
1:30.2	Things happened.
1:31.7	As much as I'm tempted to start with what to hell happened with the Orlando Magic today,
1:36.0	I think the West has to be the starting point just because of the implications of Denver
1:39.7	getting the third seed, the Lakers getting the fourth seed, just wide-ranging matchup implications
1:44.7	across the board there.
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