The Zach Lowe Show Every NBA season it feels like whichever team gets injured the least wins the title Zach Lowe and Bill Simmons talk about how the gruelling 82 game regular season is too taxing on the players bodies resulting in more injuries in this modern 3 point shooting Pace amp Space era

Adam Silver We've been addressing load management over the last several seasons Were down 30 this season in terms of single game absences by star players Its not even clear that load management works We have more injuries at the beginning and after All-Star break than late in the season

Zach Lowe on Sam Presti defending SGA by blaming social media What social media How about the coaches of half the NBA teams Hes trying to make it sound like its just these lunatics on SM and poor Shai has all these people attacking him Its people in the league head coaches on the record

Bill Simmons Pod Zach Lowe answering a mailbag question about the existence of the Brooklyn Nets I do think that the Knicks winning and the outpouring of emotion from the entirety of New York City is a meaningful material change to what the Brooklyn Nets mean to the NBA

Caitlin Cooper On the Basketball She Wrote Podcast Samson Folk joins Caitlin to analyze why Pascal Siakam fell on more jumpshots than any non-guard in the league last season

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

Discussing the lack of repeat champions in the modern NBA ESPN's Vincent Goodwill calls the Larry O'Brien a participation trophy