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The Zach Lowe Show

The Latest on LeBron and the Lakers With Dan Woike. Plus, a Look Around the NBA With Nekias Duncan.

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Dan Woike comes on to react to the news that LeBron James will miss the start of the season (1:56). What’s the concern level for the Lakers? How much will it hurt them in the standings? And who will start in LeBron’s place? Plus, Zach’s plea to get on Hot Ones, curse words from the former Yugoslavia, and Zach’s capture the flag game against fifth graders! Then, Nekias Duncan comes on to talk about a handful of teams, including the Bucks (36:51), Pelicans (46:14), Hornets (57:57), Bulls (1:11:03), and Grizzlies (1:21:49), before closing the show with a look at the Sixth Man of the Year race this coming season (1:29:58). Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Dan Woike and Nekias Duncan Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, and Jonathan Frias 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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0:29.9

All right, coming up on a loaded Zach Lowe show today,

0:33.0

we got Dan Wojke from the Athletic to talk about LeBron's sciatica.

0:37.3

And what it means, if anything, for the Lakers in the short term, and the medium term, and the long term, can this team do any real damage? Can they challenge Oklahoma City and Denver? Is there any roadmap there at all? And how much does LeBron missing 8, 10, 12, whatever it is games with sciatica? Syatica, of all things. How much does that mess up their season does it mess up their rhythm

0:55.6

their chemistry between luca and lebron and reeves am i worried about that at all what about

0:59.9

their defense what about dominate and we're going to get into all that and then nikaius duncan

1:03.9

from the dunker spot podcast at yahoo with steve jones comes on to preview just a bunch of random

1:09.8

teams nekias is the perfect guy to preview a bunch of random teams. The pelicans, the bulls, the hornets. Who else? We get into the bucks. Alex, Atenticumpo. Oh, boy. How many Atenticumpos are there left to sign? And we get into the, did I say the bulls? The bulls are on there for sure. There's another team that I'm forgetting. We're going to get into some random teams and we're going to sign. And we get into the, did I say the Bulls? The Bulls are on there for sure.

1:27.8

There's another team that I'm forgetting.

1:29.0

We're going to get into some random teams and we're going to pick an award. Six man of the year. That's a fun one to pick. That's all coming up after this on the Zach Lowe show. You're listening to the Zach Lowe show presented by Fanduel. The Smbia season put the power of the sports book

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