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The Zach Lowe Show

What’s Going on in Memphis With Chris Vernon, and a Trip Around the West With Michael Pina

The Zach Lowe Show

The Ringer

Basketball, Sports

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Zach begins by talking about the state of the Grizzlies with Chris Vernon (1:39): What does Ja Morant’s suspension mean for his future, and how much does he mean to the city of Memphis? Next, Michael Pina joins (25:23) to first discuss some fake trades involving Ja, as well as a potential disaster looming in New Orleans. Then, a trip around the Western Conference, with first impressions of Luka and the Lakers (44:12), the Nuggets (50:25), the Blazers (56:21), the Clippers (1:02:54), and the Wolves (1:10:44). All that plus some injury news, and where Game 7 of the World Series ranks among the all-time nerve-wracking games in sports (1:25:03)! Host: Zach Lowe Guests: Chris Vernon and Michael Pina Producers: Mike Wargon, Jesse Aron, 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. This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at Claude.ai/LOWE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, the NBA, never fails to deliver, does it?

0:05.7

You know, early season, just ease in, unwrap all the gifts that are the new teams with their

0:12.2

new lineups.

0:12.9

How's this work and how's that working?

0:14.2

No, John Morant suspended for conduct detrimental to the team.

0:18.7

Is this it?

0:19.8

Is the John Morant era in Memphis, whatever the era has amounted to over? We're going to talk about that with Chris Verno. Yeah, Memphis is on Chris Verno. And then Michael Pina will chip in with some fake trades. That's going to be fun. And then Pina and I are going to bounce around some of the Western Conference teams I haven't hit so deeply yet in the first couple weeks of the season. Lakers, clippers, nuggets, pelicans, oh my God, Thunder, just keep on winning. We're going to go all across the Western Conference. We're going to do some Trey Young injury. How is that going to affect the Hawks? How do they adjust from that? There's just a lot going on in the NBA for a weekend. There's always a lot going on in the NBA weekend. So it should be a fun show coming up right after this. You're listening to the Zach Lowe show presented by Fandul. FanDul now displays your bets directly on your phone's lock screen. And with the latest updates to the live events and player pages, it's never been easier to be part of

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1:30.2

connecticut welcome to the zach low show it's monday morning and and the NBA waited about 10 days before going wild

1:46.5

and the wildness, well, there's a nexus of unpleasant wildness in the Western Conference,

1:51.0

which we might connect from one team to two teams to three teams, but it starts in Memphis.

1:56.2

Chris Vernon is here, the voice of Memphis, the voice of the mismatch with our buddy jacobi chris john moran

2:03.2

disengaged against the lakers on friday standing in the corner might as well if if he had pockets

2:08.6

he would have had his hands in his pockets if he had a phone he would have been texting in the corner

2:12.2

while someone else did santi aldama is trying to euro step his way into the lane then after the game gives a br brusque interview. I don't know. Ask the coaches. They probably don't even want to play me. Then it turns out he gets suspended for one game, contract detrimental to the team for, I guess, not reacting well to the coaches calling him out in a team meeting, according to Shams who had at first. Verno, how are we feeling this morning?

2:35.5

I'm okay. I mean, it was all going so well. You know, the team doesn't have their full roster

2:43.2

of guys and then, you know, it wasn't all that bad at the beginning. You know, they were what? I think

2:48.9

they're three and two going into that game. Marant had hit two game winners. Uh, you know, there's still some growing pains

2:55.9

going on. You got a new coach. You got some new pieces to the roster, but, you know, it's, it's

3:02.5

been up and down, but the teams you had lost to you, at that point, you had lost to Miami

3:06.6

a Golden State, so it wasn't the worst thing ever

3:08.9

and then that game hit and of course in the second half of that game I'm texting my buddies like what is going on

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