The Zach Lowe Show
Dybantsa, Peterson, or Boozer? NBA Draft Preview and Spurs Postmortem.
16 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the NBA Draft prospects?
Coming up on the Zach Glow Show, we are a week away from the NBA draft, and there's all sorts of scuttlebutt. J. Kyle Mann, the Ringer's draft guru, is here to sort it all out for us. We talk about the top of the draft. Who's Washington going to take? Is it going to be DeBansa? All this Utah noise. There's issues with Walker. Kessler, are there really?
Darren Peterson's not going to work out there. Is there a window for Cam Boozer to move up to number two? Obviously, Carlos Boozer works with and for the Jazz. What does that all mean? How is this top four actually going to shake out?
And then we just get into the nitty gritty of a bunch of different guys that Kyle knows very well and I know not very well at all because I just did just enough video to be dangerous and have some hot takes. We talk about the Michigan guys. We talk about all the guards. What are the Clippers going to do?
Chapter 2: Who will be the top picks in the NBA Draft this year?
What should the Clippers do? Should Darius Garland matter in terms of who they draft? Like how much should fit Mather? That's a debate for Washington. It's a debate for Utah. We talk all about that. And then Jared Weiss from The Athletic is here to put the Spurs season to bed. Did Wemby really become a villain? Did it happen that fast? Why did it happen? What happened?
How would we grade his performance in the finals? What did the Spurs do this summer for Forget long-term. We'll talk about the De'Aaron Fox question. What did they do this summer to address some of the needs that kind of popped up for them in the finals? What should their finals takeaway be? What's the future of this team?
Chapter 3: What makes the draft interesting at pick number five?
How soon are they going to be back? And then all things Wemby, that's coming up on the Zach Lowe Show. Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show, where we are one day away from Croatia's debut in the 2026 World Cup and one week away from the NBA draft, which sadly for me coincides with Croatia's second game in the 2026 World Cup, which I will be attending in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Suboptimal timing, NBA.
You moved the draft back. It's always on Thursday. You move it to a Tuesday. What are you doing to me? Kyle Mann is here. How are you doing, sir?
I'm doing pretty well. I wish I had a soccer team to be as enthused as you are.
Chapter 4: How do the Michigan players fit into the draft conversation?
I mean, I guess I'm an American. I guess that's a, but we're just, we're never very guys beat Paraguay.
Watch out best start ever in a world cup.
I try to get interested. And then, you know, the first half, they put some goals in and I was like, maybe I'll tune in at halftime. And then they immediately started to kind of hit turbulence. And I was like, it was me. It was my fault. So I just turned it off.
Chapter 5: What went wrong for the Spurs in the finals?
I'm going to just stand back and pick a more karma-friendly entry point for the World Cup.
Hey, look. Croatia is getting old. We were old last time playing England in the first game.
Chapter 6: How will Wemby develop as a player next season?
We're going to be underdogs in that game. Might recall. We beat England in the 2018 world cup semifinals and an absolute thriller. One of my favorite sports memories ever. I talk about it all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying right now, they're old. They have had miracle runs the last two World Cups. Their luck is due to run out at some point. Overlook little Croatia, population 3.9 million. Overlook them at your peril because they seem to find a way. Second place in 2018, third place in 2022.
Chapter 7: What are the extension prospects for Keldon Johnson?
Okay, Kyle Mann. We're a week out of the draft. Everyone is on Giannis' watch. Giannis watch could impact the draft, particularly if it ends up being Miami. And as of right now at 10 54 AM Eastern standard time on Tuesday, June 16th, I don't really have another team other than Boston or Miami that I can say is like with confidence that they're truly in on Giannis.
And I don't know the degree to which Boston, uh, is truly in on Giannis. I think they're in, I think there's something going on, but it's, it's hard to get a read on exactly what the machinations are and how serious they are. But I like the, the contract and Giannis is leverage here has definitely sort of turned some other teams away.
Like a team like the calves, they can't trade Evan Mobley on the hope that they can convince Giannis to resign there. And there's a bunch of teams sort of in that situation, but we are, we will wait.
Chapter 8: Why is the Spurs' future looking promising despite recent losses?
and we will see what the deal ends up being. In the meantime, are you ready? Portland's not a factor anymore?
They were kind of sniffed, kicked, yeah.
I think they'd love to be a factor. Their owner just won the Stanley Cup, so he's probably riding high, thinks he can do no wrong. Again, if he's not indicating he's going to sign there, I'm not really sure what you can give up. If you're Portland, they always made sense to me as a third team.
in any any kind of deal because they have some of the milwaukee draft assets i always like to if boston does move like does jalen brown go to portland in a connected deal or in a separate deal like it could be a two-team deal and then milwaukee flips jalen brown later we will we'll see um we'll see we're gonna learn what are you ready for the draft do you feel prepared
It's a long process to get to the point where, I don't know, I always say this every year, you get to this stage and you kind of, I always have like a momentary panic where I'm like, oh my God, did I study for the test enough? But then I'm like, it's a gradual build.
You watch these guys little, hopefully by this time of year, if you're in my position or you're somebody watching the draft, the tape has kind of piled up to the point where I feel like my opinions are set. There's some kind of, the playoffs definitely,
covering it on the group chat show and talking about it step-by-step the way that we do, it's definitely made me kind of recontextualize some guys and we can get into that here or there as needed. But yeah, I mean, I feel like I'm ready. I'm ready. Yeah. Let's commit to something.
I've done my annual YouTube, just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Dive on maybe 17 of the players in the draft. Honest. What's his last name? Honest. Something. Steinbach. My guy, Honest Steinbach. I just watched 15 minutes of him on YouTube. I got all sorts of hot takes on him. That's where I've read. That's where my post-finals life has taken me to Honest Steinbach YouTube clips.
This is where we are. What's your, well, I'm curious, Zach, what's your like, what's your keyword usage? Are you going, what's your entry point? Are you, are you, are you doing like University of Washington YouTube page? Like there's some, there's some dubstep. It's more elementary than that.
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