Giannis Trade Intensifies & Chris Paul's Abrupt Exit From L.A.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Nichols and Evan Turner break down LeBron's streak of scoring over ten points in a game coming to an end before getting into the intensifying Giannis trade rumors and how the rest of the season may play out for him. We also discuss what exactly happened for the Clippers to end their reunion with Chris Paul so abruptly and why the new U.S.A. vs. the world all star format may leave some big names out of the mix
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| 0:00.0 | Now playing. |
| 0:01.5 | Open floor. |
| 0:03.1 | This is Open Floor. |
| 0:05.4 | 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. |
| 0:14.2 | 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! |
| 0:39.8 | Welcome to the Open Floor podcast. I am Rachel Nichols. Well, I don't know. Do you think Evan Turner that people knew I wasn't Chris Mannix? Because he's usually the one in this spot. Yeah, no, I think they might have caught on early, but they might be more excited to hear your voice from Chris, you know, every now and then, who know, you know? |
| 0:42.4 | See, we're going to get along great in this podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | There you go. |
| 0:47.6 | I am sitting in for Chris because his wife had a baby. |
| 0:50.4 | So congratulations to Chris, a baby boy. |
| 0:52.3 | You're a parent, Evan. |
| 1:11.0 | My impression talking to Chris these past few months is that he really had no idea about what's ahead for him. He's been very cavalier. He's been like, it's going to be fine. My life is going to be the same. My wife has a lot of relatives in Los Angeles. And I'm just like, just do you wait, my friend. What do you think? Yeah, now, it's so wild because you do think, like, no, |
| 1:30.2 | my mom can help. Yeah, my aunt can help. And it's like, when you meet like your child, the child is like, oh, no, you're my parent. Like, you understand what I'm saying? And it's almost like, when you start gauging everything, you're like, oh, this is adulting at its highest level. And I think pretty soon your paternal instincts kick in and you're like, |
| 1:44.3 | wait, I got to make sure this little thing doesn't die. Then I got to make sure it's happy. Then I got to make sure it's fed. And I got to. And I think he's going to do a, I think you're going to be leading a couple more podcasts once he starts. |
| 2:02.9 | He made me talking again next week. Is that what you're saying? I think so. He told me, I'm going to take a week. I'm like, you might take worth it a week. We'll see. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, 1,000 for the sake of the mom. All right. Well, I want to start off talking about LeBron because as we sit here on Friday last night an 18-year streak. I mean, that's just crazy, man. That's an 18-year streak ended, him scoring double digits in every game he |
| 2:09.1 | played. And a lot of this has been made about at the end of the game, he passed the ball to |
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