Blazers Owner Remains Cheap on Arena Deal & Sam Presti's Interesting Trade (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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🗓️ 21 July 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Chris Mannix & Rachel Nichols break down why LeBron James' family may influence the choice of his next team more than people think, why the Portland Trail Blazers' new owner is playing hardball with the city over arena renovations, and what Sam Presti's latest trade says about the Thunder's plans for the future.
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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. |
| 0:17.1 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.5 | Bang! |
| 0:24.8 | This is the Open Floor NBA podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | We talk about the league and all the big stories that are going on in it. |
| 0:34.1 | Back with me this week from All the Smoke, monumental sports network, Fox Sports One. |
| 0:34.6 | And as always, right here on this podcast each and every week, the great Rachel Nichols. Welcome back, Rachel. Thank you. Just got back from Maine. I love Maine. Big Maine guy. Lovely. That northeast of yours, it's nice. Big Sebego Lake guy. Oh. That was a family tradition for many years. I'm trying to bring it back with my family now to get |
| 0:55.9 | up there for a week. But I'm also a Vermont guy. I've got a house on the lake. You have houses |
| 1:00.1 | everywhere. That is Chris Mannix's dirty secret, is that he has a house in all 50 states. |
| 1:05.3 | That would be nice. Are you potentially on the run? On the lamb? Yeah, are you preparing for needing, like, safe houses? |
| 1:12.0 | I just like to have, you know, the apocalypse. Okay. If you gotta go to Manhattan, you can be there. You can be there. I've always said, like, and nobody cares, but like, I live, I've had multiple jobs, and I worked a lot over the years. You currently have multiple jobs. I was single for a very long time. |
| 1:26.9 | I drank beer and ate pizza for a very long time. |
| 1:30.3 | So whatever I had extra money, I would put it into real estate. I'd buy something nice and Vermont is one of those places. I'm a big Vermont guy now, Green Mountain State. I'm just saying if you ever commit a crime, no one's gonna know. No one's gonna know, which state I'm in. Yeah. I'm most likely hiding in Vermont. A lot of woods up there. Okay. Good to know. See, we all heard it here first. If the FBI is looking and there's a reward, we all go to Vermont. All right, a lot to get into on the show today. We're going to talk about the Portland Trailblazers, some developments there that have the people in Oregon pretty anxious. We had a trade, an off-season trade, |
| 2:03.0 | three-team deal involving Oklahoma City, Atlanta, and Dallas. We'll dive into that as well. |
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