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Open Floor.

This is Open Floor.

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix back at it.

An NBA podcast with Sports Illustrated senior writer.

I think it's time that the world get to know.

My guy Chris Manix.

I think your opinion is shared by everyone.

And now it begins.

Now it begins.

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We are back.

Chris Mannix, Rachel Nichols, Fox Sports, All the Smoke, Monumental Sports Network, right here on this pod every week.

And we are here in studio in Los Angeles, where it was a balmy 80 degrees today, Rachel.

80 degrees in Los Angeles.

Every time I think about, like, why do I live here now?

I'm more of an East Coast guy.

I was in Boston over the weekend where it dropped to the 40s.

I come back on Monday, and it's 80 degrees in mid-November. We're about to talk about Detroit. It snowed already, I heard. Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, like all those winters I spent in Boston where it's like, January, February, you really start to rethink life choices. You know that from D.C. Like, you just wonder, like, what am I doing with my life that I am putting up with this for two months?

I mean, that's how I feel being on this pod with you.

This is what you're doing, though. Yeah. What am I doing with my life? Week after week. You are here every single week. Just that they're going, what am I doing with my life? All right. Well, there's no real way to transition onto this one, but a lot to get into on the show.

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