Giannis Has Played His Last Game for the Bucks (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols break down the reports that the Bucks are listening to aggressive trade offers for Giannis Antetokounmpo after the future hall of famer expressed his desire to play for another team. We discuss if the Bucks will wait until the offseason to deal Giannis, which teams will make a play for him, and if a trade will pay off for the lucky franchise
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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! |
| 0:22.9 | All right, Rachel Nichols, Fox Sports One, All the Smoke, monumental sports network, and of course |
| 0:27.9 | right here on this podcast. We are East Coast people this week. You are down in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:35.2 | I am up in New York City. As I look out the window of my apartment, I've got a little deck here on my apartment in New York City. I saw you put it on social. I know. There's about a foot and a half of snow blocking access to my deck. And I don't think that snow's going anywhere for at least a few months. So, uh, no access. You know what's here in D.C.? More snow? More snow and the |
| 0:57.1 | Milwaukee Bucks. Oh, yes. Excellent segue. The Milwaukee Bucks headed to Washington, D.C. for a showdown |
| 1:04.1 | with the Wizards, a game where given the revelations of the last 24 hours may be a contest of who wants it less. |
| 1:13.3 | I was going to say, I mean, this could be a pretty hotly contested game, actually. |
| 1:17.4 | Who's trying to throw a game away faster? Of course, we're talking about this and the subject |
| 1:23.2 | of this podcast is going to be one topic, and that is the latest with Janice Tendipo, who seems to be |
| 1:29.3 | inching ever so closer to an exit in Milwaukee, the latest report from ESPN, that Janus is |
| 1:35.2 | ready to move on from the Milwaukee Bucks, either before the February 5th trade deadline or |
| 1:40.7 | sometime in the off season. And really the real news in this is that the bucks are receptive to offers at this point |
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