The Herro Injury and Veteran Extension Candidates With Sam Amick, Plus UConn Head Coach Dan Hurley

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Zach and Sam begin with the news surrounding Tyler Herro’s injury (1:51) and talk about what it means for the Heat and how it might affect a possible extension for the seventh-year guard. That leads to a discussion about some of the more interesting veteran extension candidates out there, including KAT (11:55), KD (21:16), Lu Dort (32:11), and much more. Then, a big discussion on Trae Young (37:00): both his extension candidacy AND pseudo-feud with Pat Bev! Finally, Zach welcomes in UConn head coach Dan Hurley to talk about everything covered in his new book, including (51:07): What happened with the Lakers, his intensity on the sideline, and his struggles with mental health over the years. Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Sam Amick and Dan Hurley Producers: Jesse Aron, Victoria Valencia, Steve Ceruti Get started today at HubSpot.com/AI Unfold more with the new Galaxy Z Fold7. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	Coming up on a new edition of the Zach Lowe show
0:33.1	to start your week, we're talking Tyler Hero's injury.
0:36.5	The Heat, how bad is this for them? Could this be
0:39.2	a not tanking year, but maybe not great year for the heat? And we're using Tyler Hero, who's
0:44.8	eligible for an extension starting October 1st to look at some of the trickiest veteran extension
0:49.7	candidates, not the Rookers heel guys, veteran extension candidates.. There's big names, some sneaky names.
0:54.8	You got your catch, your Darius Garland, your Trey Young's, Kevin Durant, A.J. Green, Cam Johnson
1:00.8	on the sneakier side. What's going to happen with all these players? Is anyone going to sign
1:04.2	extensions among this veteran group? When, where, how, who? Austin Reeves, Rui Hachamor. We got
1:09.7	some Lakers discussion in there too. Then we got Dan Hurley, the head coach of University of Connecticut's men's basketball team. Six time, he corrected me. I said five times. Six-time national champions twice under him. Failed in their bid for a three-pee. We get into everything, including the Lakers thing. Was it real? How real was it? He just wrote a book where he details all this.
1:29.6	We're going to talk about the book that he wrote with Ian O'Connor, all things Yukon, his alumni in the NBA.
1:36.1	And one thing we are not going to talk about today is the Sad Sack, New York Mets.
1:40.4	We're putting that on the back burner.
1:42.3	Thank you for listening, watching.
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