Zach’s Mega-Playoff Preview! Reaction to Breaking News, Plus All the Action Out West With Bill Simmons, and Eastern Previews With Mo Dakhil.

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Zach is joined by Bill Simmons to begin his playoff preview, but not before reacting to breaking news in New Orleans and Phoenix (0:52). They then talk Western play-in games (18:58), Clippers-Nuggets (45:18), and Wolves-Lakers (58:47). Afterwards, Mo Dakhil hops on to talk the Eastern play-in games (01:12:41), Pistons-Knicks (01:32:07), and Bucks-Pacers (01:48:14). 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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0:35.0	Coming up on the Zach Lowe show, we got a massive playing and playoff preview.
0:40.2	Moad De Kiel's coming on to talk about the East.
0:42.3	And a guy you might know, Bill Simmons, is coming on to talk about the West.
0:53.0	Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show, because that's what we're calling it now.
0:57.3	And we got the Podfather on the line to preview the Western Conference playoffs and
1:02.3	play. And that's what we were supposed to do. But we got some breaking news. I know you're excited
1:05.7	to get to Bill Simmons, live from the Man Cave with the Boston stuff in the background.
1:10.6	How you doing?
1:11.8	It's like half-hearted breaking news. I don't think it was breaking news that made any of us go,
1:17.5	oh my God, and drop the coffee cup, you know, Kaiser Soze style. These were two we expected.
1:22.8	My question is, is there going to be more after this? Two coach fires, Boonealser, New Orleans, Queens' house.
1:29.6	Is there another one we're not expecting?
1:31.9	Oh, there's always something.
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