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The Zach Lowe Show

The Hawks Have Reached Their Limit With Trae Young, and the End of the Warriors

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Zach is joined by Howard Beck to dive deep into the Atlanta Hawks' options for the rest of the season, including what they might do with Trae Young. Then, they share their thoughts on Giannis’s windmill dunk in garbage time, the most interesting lottery teams, and the Warriors' continued struggles. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show! (1:50) Howard Beck joins the show (4:37) Zach’s Atlanta Hawks apology (11:58) A divorce between Trae Young and the Hawks feels inevitable (16:53) Which Hawks path is the most interesting? (24:30) Do we care about Giannis’s windmill dunk? (31:40) Teams that have the best chance in the lottery (38:20) How should the Jazz handle the rest of the season? (54:49) Clippers were playing below their talent level and have improved (59:06) Wild-card teams: Nets and Hornets (1:06:02) Warriors dynasty continues to fade (1:19:17) Celtics continue to exceed expectations (1:22:05) A potential Jayson Tatum return remains fascinating Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Howard Beck 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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0:00.0

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0:35.0

All right, coming up on the Zachalow show, we got Howard Beck.

0:38.9

What up, Beck.

0:40.2

Coming on to talk about a bunch of stuff going on in the NBA.

0:43.4

We left Christmas in the rearview.

0:45.0

That was wild.

0:45.9

It was followed by kind of a wild weekend in the NBA that we're going to recap, look ahead to.

0:51.7

Warriors existential crisis.

1:01.6

Hawks. Oh, God. The Hawks. cap look ahead to warriors existential crisis hawks oh god the hawks we're retiring cacao forever for the foreseeable future at least we're going to have a big long apology about the hawks and what the hell

1:05.6

they're supposed to do with trey young if anything do they really want anthony davis what's happening

1:09.5

bottom of the standings got very interesting over the weekend.

1:12.7

The jazz are hot. The nets are hot. The Clippers, Kauai put up a double nickel, the best scoring game of his illustrious career. They're hot. What does this mean for the bottom of the standings? How are the Hawks supposed to value the Pelicans pick that they have? What should the jazz do? The juiciest dilemma in the entire league,

1:27.9

the jazz. Oh, Oklahoma City, a top eight protected first round pick. What are they supposed to do?

1:33.5

Should they keep trying to win? Should they let it ride? Are they going to semi-soft tank again?

1:37.4

What do the thunder think of all this? Then we're going to talk some warriors, some Celtics,

1:42.4

some trade stuff, a loaded show coming up with the great Howard Beck.

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