Woj Retirement and Reasons to Watch the Bottom Tier Teams in the League

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Zach reacts to Adrian Wojnarowski leaving ESPN, divides the Eastern conference into tiers, and then brings in Steve Jones Jr. of The Dunker Spot to explain why these 8 teams will be worth watching: the Wizards, Hornets, Bulls, Raptors, Jazz, Blazers, Nets, and Pistons. :15- Zach's thoughts on Woj's retirement from media 9:30- Tiering out the east 14:00- What to make of Milwaukee 20:00- Things to look forward to in Toronto 27:15- Young pieces for the Wizards 38:45- What does a healthy Hornets team look like? 48:35- Cade Cunnigham's growth around the Pistons offseason acquisitions. 55:50- Is there any joy in watching the Nets? 1:02:10- Can Josh Giddey's fit into Chicago change the Bulls future? 1:09:15- Jazz music playing? 1:21:20- The Blazers underrated depth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now the Low Post.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Low Post podcast on a Wednesday where
0:08.0	in one of the only times I can remember the biggest NBA story of the day
0:12.0	of the week, maybe of the month, is not about a player,
0:16.1	not about a coach, not about a team, not about a GM, but about a media member.
0:21.3	Adrian Wojnrowski, who has spent the last almost decade at ESPN, a colleague of
0:25.8	mind in that time, as our leading breaking news reporter, suddenly announced that he is retiring from media to go be the general manager of his
0:35.9	beloved St Bonaventure men's basketball team and to say that this is a shock to the company and to all of us is an understatement.
0:46.7	I didn't know, was it no inkling it was coming?
0:49.6	No one I talked to today had any inkling it was coming and it leaves a huge void at the
0:56.6	spien that we can't really even fill and not only at the spien but in NBA media for the last 20 years.
1:05.0	Wodes redefined coverage of the NBA, how to break news in the NBA,
1:09.0	what it meant, literally what it meant to cover the NBA. There is nobody like him and he was always a great
1:16.5	colleague to me and to everyone at ESPN and it's just a huge, huge void that we are going to struggle like all hell to fill some I don't even know how we're
1:25.4	going to do it a couple of windows into into working with Woj that I don't think you would mind me
1:30.8	mentioning into what to the sacrifice of time and mental strain
1:37.5	that it took to be him, on a more basic level,
1:42.4	it must be five years ago now, there was a player that I had a good relationship with the player and his agents
1:49.0	who was going to get an extension going into his fourth season and the player and his agents were like, hey, you know, you have a good relationship with this player, we're going to give you, we're going to give you a chance to break the news, which I don't very often do. And so I told Wojabada he of
2:05.7	course already knew that this was going to happen. He was like that's cool great you take
2:08.9	it you take this one great for you. So the day comes when this is going to happen and they call me
2:14.1	and say hey I think it's probably we're probably it's probably going to break
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