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The Zach Lowe Show

The End of the Trae Young Era in Atlanta. Plus, All-Star Predictions!

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Sports, Basketball

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Zach is joined by Rob Mahoney to break down the decision to trade Trae Young to the Wizards. Then, they predict the final All-Star roster for the Western and Eastern conferences. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show! (1:47) Rob Mahoney joins the show! (3:52) This is rock bottom for Trae Young’s trade value (13:34) What does this mean for Alex Sarr’s development? (21:16) What would you think of Anthony Davis with the Hawks? (24:56) Trae still has juice and could reinvigorate the Wizards (27:56) Predicting Western Conference All-Stars (31:43) Should the last spot be Devin Booker or Chet Holmgren? (37:04) The Nuggets have continued to win without Jokic (41:04) What’s happening with OKC? (47:37) Issuing apologies for the West snubs (56:44) Predicting Eastern Conference All-Stars (1:00:57) Did Franz Wagner earn a spot? (1:06:35) Derrick White has a legitimate case (1:12:17) Why is the KAT experience so maddening? (1:17:58) Jaylen Brown has entered the MVP conversation (1:21:47) Giannis says that he will never request a trade Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Rob Mahoney Producers: Mike Wargon, 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 about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.2

Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, we have a trade.

1:10.5

Repeat, we have a trade. Trey Young. The Atlanta era is over. He has been traded to the Washington Wizards for C.J. McCollum and Corey Kisper. Rob Mahoney is here to break it all down. What does it mean for the Hawks? Is there another shoot-a-drop? Is there another move coming now that they've cleared away $50 million of salary next season in Trey-ung? Does this make the hogs better? Does it make it worse? Does it even matter? The Wizards, why? What? What happened? The Wizards got Trey Young? Did they extend him? No, not yet. Are they going to? How is this going to work with all the wizard junk players is good for them? Which ones is it good for? Which ones is it dicey for? How is straight going to fit there?

1:47.9

Are they working? going to? I don't know. How is this going to work with all the wizard junk players is good for them?

1:45.1

Which ones is it good for?

1:46.2

Which ones is it dicey for?

1:47.4

How is stray going to fit there?

2:01.9

Are they worried about losing their draft pick to the Knicks? How are they going to handle that? Lots to talk about with Trey Young. Sad day for the Hawks in a lot of ways. But hey, you move on. And then Rob and I pick our 12-man all-star squads for the West and the East.

2:03.5

And I got a little wacky.

2:04.2

I got to tell you.

2:18.1

Got a little wacky. I got to tell you, got a little wacky, especially in the East where the pickings are a little bit slimmer than I would like. We have some disagreements, some big disagreements, actually, with a Western conference player in particular. And in the East, we're just all over the place. And then as we do that, we talk about everything that's in the news the nix end they're losing streak the nuggets oh my god the

2:23.1

nuggets three and two without yokech after a great win um in boston the thunder kind of still scuffling

2:28.9

took overtime to beat the jazz at home really uh yannis made some comments about never requesting a trade.

2:35.3

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