A Pro's Perspective on the Portal & Lakers Lose Big (w/ Evan Turner)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix & Evan Turner break down the latest on semi-pro players returning to college and get Evan's perspective as a former college athlete in the pre NIL days. We also get into why the league should get rid of it's 65 game minimum rule in order to qualify for awards, the Clippers defense doing a 180 during their current hot streak, and what is going wrong for the Lakers after another blow out loss
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| 0:00.0 | Now playing. |
| 0:01.5 | Open Floor. |
| 0:03.1 | This is Open Floor. |
| 0:05.3 | Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix back at it. |
| 0:07.7 | An NBA podcast with Sports Illustrated senior writer. |
| 0:11.5 | I think it's time that the world get to know. |
| 0:14.1 | My guy Chris Manix. |
| 0:15.4 | I think your opinion is shared by everyone. |
| 0:17.2 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.6 | Bang! |
| 0:22.9 | All right, we are back, open floor NBA podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | We talk about the league and all the big stories going on. |
| 0:30.4 | And joining me back again from parts unknown across the United States. |
| 0:36.8 | Former 10-year NBA veteran number two overall draft pick, Evan Turner. |
| 0:41.8 | E.T., my first question for you, though, is, well, let me say first. |
| 0:44.7 | Your holidays, good, everything good in the Turner world. |
| 0:48.4 | Everything is beautiful. |
| 0:49.5 | Everything's good. |
| 0:50.3 | Now it's all about trying to, you know, keep up with my New Year's resolutions. |
| 0:56.4 | So, oh, you have them. Yeah, I mean, this year I've been more realistic. It's just being like, |
| 1:01.6 | you're going to do one or two things that I can actually do not like, be like, hey, I'm going to learn |
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