Zach’s Random Questions One Week Into the NBA Season, With Kirk Goldsberry

The Zach Lowe Show

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Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Zach and Kirk Goldsberry dive into the opening week of the season with their first impressions, overreactions, and random questions (2:21): How close is Wemby to being the best player already? Which second-tier star is making the most impressive leap (18:52)? And is the Rookie of the Year race more open than we thought (30:30)? Next, alarming rotation holes in Atlanta and Minnesota (40:36), worries in Orlando and Dallas, and depressing gap years in Boston and Indiana (1:06:23). All that, plus their latest thoughts on the NBA’s gambling scandals (1:11:05), an Anthony Edwards injury update, and much more! Host: Zach Lowe Guest: Kirk Goldsberry 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 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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0:34.6	NBA games for four or five days now. First impressions,
0:38.9	overreactions. I've got Kirk Goldsbury of the ringer to come on. We're going to bounce
0:43.3	around Zach's random questions after a few days of NBA binge watching early in this season.
0:48.6	I got about 10 random questions. How good is Wembe already? How close is he to being the best
0:53.9	player of the league?
0:54.8	Is rookie of the year a little more open than we thought? Maybe, maybe not. What team should be
0:59.9	worried? Are the Bulls good? Who's sadder to watch so far? The Pacers of the Celtics among
1:05.4	the gap year teams. We got a lot of big picture questions like that. The leap, we got a leap
1:09.8	category. Second tier kind of all-star types looking like they're making a leap up towards first tier. Which of those leaps is the most significant around the league? Kurt Goldsbury, we're going to bounce around all of that. Everything that's going on early in the NBA season, it's been a fun start to the season. We've got a bunch of games tonight, too, to talk about. And then maybe a little bit more, as we've had 72 hours or so to reflect
1:32.2	on the Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, two separate indictments, separate and mostly
1:38.6	unrelated, one about betting on NBA games, mostly linked to Terry Rozier, allegedly, and one involving
1:47.2	allegedly rigged poker games that Chauncey Billups allegedly participated in in some way with,
1:53.5	you know, we'll see about that.
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