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The Zach Lowe Show

The NBA Playoff Preview Guide With Kirk Goldsberry

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Sports, Basketball

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Zach is joined by Kirk Goldsberry to discuss Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham gaining postseason awards eligibility and recap the play-in games and predict winners for the final playoff spots. Then, they go through each set playoff series and rank them in terms of watchability. (0:00) Welcome to The Zach Lowe Show! (2:12) Kirk Goldsberry joins the show! (10:58) Luka and Cade ruled eligible for postseason awards (17:22) Biggest crisis among play-in losers? (21:47) Warriors-Suns preview (26:14) Hornets-Magic preview (31:38) Ranking playoff series by watchability, starting with MIN-DEN (42:54) Hawks-Knicks (52:08) Trail Blazers-Spurs (58:52) Rockets-Lakers (1:06:20) 76ers-Celtics (1:15:19) Raptors-Cavaliers Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Kirk Goldsberry Producers: Mike Wargon, Jonathan Frias, and Billy Gil Social: Keith Fujimoto When you need your fit to deliver, we’ve got you. Shop Men's Wearhouse. 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

I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power embarrassing Eddie makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

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0:16.0

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0:19.0

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0:24.3

markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and Cs and Cuis and

0:27.8

exclusions apply. 18 plus scummelaware.com. All right, coming up on the Zach Lowe show, the postseason is here.

0:41.1

And what a postseason and has been so far, just the first few games of the playing tournament.

0:45.3

Epic, almost across the board minus Orlando kind of petering out in Philadelphia.

0:50.2

And we have six first round series set.

0:53.2

You know what that means.

0:54.5

It's six by six, eight by eight, whatever we want to call at time with Kurt Goldsbury.

0:59.0

We're going to rapid fire preview every first round series, X's and O's, adjustments, adjustments, adjustments.

1:05.8

Predictions.

1:06.4

We're going to put our names on the line with these predictions.

1:09.9

We're going to predict the play in games

1:11.2

that are remaining for the eighth seed on friday phoenix golden state holy smokes the warriors

1:16.7

given us another memory stephen dream on we'll break down all the playing games that have happened

1:21.4

and then of course Orlando charlotte for the eighth seed in the east we're going to predict

1:26.1

those games.

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