#Zach Lowe

Nothing has gone the Los Angeles Lakers way this season, from poor results to difficulties remaining healthy. However, according to Darvin Ham, the Lakers are slowly heading toward a healthy roster, with Anthony Davis, Lonnie Walker IV, and Austin Reaves all trending in a positive direction with their respective recoveries. "Lonnie is trending in…

As the February 9 trade deadline continues to draw closer, the Los Angeles Lakers will be involved in numerous trade discussions to improve their flailing roster. According to Sports Illustrated's Howard Beck, the Lakers recently'held discussions' surrounding a potential deal that would land them both Bojan Bogdanovic and Nerlens Noel from the…

On the latest episode of his podcast The Lowe Post, ESPN's Zach Lowe spoke with the Worldwide Leader's Lakers beat reporter, Dave McMenamin, about just how badly 38-year-old LA All-Star might actually want to leave the team in a trade. The answer: not much. "I keep hearing he wants to stay with the Lakers. He wants to finish his career with the…

Just 27 games into the season, it's impossible to know what the highest and lowest points of the Toronto Raptors' campaign will be. But they hit a notable nadir on Sunday with a 111-99 loss to the Magic, marking their second defeat to Orlando in a three-day span. Losing to Orlando - a team more interested in Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson…

It's often said that basketball is a game of runs. Well, that same principle can be applied to NBA betting. So far this season, lottery-bound teams have surprisingly made their way to the top and championship contenders have come out flat and underwhelmed. Several players once thought to be washed up have risen from the dead while a wave of new…

Monday's trio of NBA player prop picks all have something in common: they're focused on players struggling to rack up points. One such player is Clippers G Reggie Jackson, who hasn't been able to pick up the slack in Kawhi's absence. You don't win money with optimistic thinking. For today's daily NBA props, I took a dispassionate look at the…

The Los Angeles Lakers are 2-9 and rank 14th overall in the Western Conference, so is LeBron James pushing for more firepower by advocating a trade for Kyrie Irving? On Thursday, LeBron came to Irving's defense on Twitter after the Brooklyn Nets suspended the guard for promoting anti-Semitism on social media. According to some NBA betting sites,…

Zach Lowe of ESPN.com has had a running joke about the Orlando Magic. There is a streak he is watching carefully. The Magic have not been outside the bottom 10 in the league in offensive rating in the last decade ever since Dwight Howard was on the team. It is tough to say what Orlando's offense was trying to do or whether it could find anything…

The Brooklyn Nets have won just two of their first eight games to open the 2022-23 NBA season and have looked like a play-in team. They've also just fired Steve Nash and are facing the uproar of Kyrie Irving's recent anti-Semitic post. Zach Lowe, on his podcast, is already seeing doom that he didn't expect this early into the season: "If you are…

The Utah Jazz were hesitant to find a trade partner for guard Jordan Clarkson. As it turns out, Jazz executive Danny Ainge wants to retain the NBA veteran - at least for now. Rumors suggested that Clarkson would get traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Russell Westbrook. ESPN NBA Insider Zach Lowe believes the guard is now off limits for a trade. A…

After claiming that the Portland Trail Blazers roster was "blah", ESPN analysts Zach Lowe has changed his tune. Earlier this month, Lowe claimed, on his Lowe Post podcast, that Portland was mediocre, at best, among 2022-23 season prospects. This morning Lowe, joined by Sports Illustrated's Chris Herring, reversed his position, following the team's…

The Miami Heat were as close as it gets to reach the NBA Finals without actually pulling it off. Had Jimmy Butler converted the transition pull-up 3-pointer while facing a 98-96 deficit with less than 20 seconds remaining in regulation, a lot could have changed. It likely would have been the Heat in making it out of the Eastern Conference instead…

Jazz Receive: T.J. McConnell, James Bouknight and a 2027 first-round pick from Charlotte (top-five protected) Hornets Receive: Jordan Clarkson, Myles Turner and Buddy Hield Pacers Receive: Gordon Hayward, Mason Plumlee, a 2023 first-round pick from Charlotte (via Denver), a 2025 first-round pick from Charlotte and a 2026 second-round pick from Utah…