How The Celtics Will Defend Their Title

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Chris Mannix discusses the news that Kawhi Leonard underwent knee surgery in the offseason before he's joined by Jay King of the Athletic to discuss the big extensions handed out by Boston this off season, how Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown will play this year after finally winning a title, and what the team may look like in the future

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0:00.0	Now playing Open Floor.
0:03.0	This is Open Floor.
0:05.0	Sports Illustrated's Chris Manix back at it.
0:08.0	An NBA podcast with Sports Illustrated senior writer.
0:11.0	I think it's time that the world get to know my guy Chris Mannix I think your opinion shared by everyone and now it begins now it begins
0:35.9	Welcome back open floor NBA podcast where we talk about the League and everything that's going on in it today we are going to lean into the Boston Celtics the defending chance yes they are back opening up training camp a little bit early before they head to Abu Dhabi for a couple of
0:40.4	exhibition games Jay King is going to join me Jay is the Celtics reporter
0:44.5	for the athletic he has covered that team for a very long time. Jay and I will talk
0:49.5	about Jason Tatum, his mindset, Chris Daps Porzingus, his health, a lot of stuff to get into there
0:56.5	with Jay King. I did want to start the show though with something that came up this week in Los Angeles.
1:04.0	Lawrence Frank, the Clippers president of basketball operations,
1:08.0	he addressed the media and had this to say
1:11.0	about the status of Kauai Leonard's troublesome right knee.
1:15.0	His right knee, the swelling has significantly gone down. It's almost gone.
1:20.4	The, he wants to be, wants to participate in everything in training camp, but we're going to hold him back from from drill work and really focus on strengthening because the goal is to get him 100% so he can have a great season, not just this year, but for many years.
1:37.0	We'll have a detailed plan step by step, kind of measure, just have an objective measures to go from one phase to the next
1:46.4	but he's super determined super excited and can't wait to get started
1:52.1	Now the clippers are telling everyone that they are optimistic about
1:57.2	Kawai's recovery, but here are the facts. Kawai Leonard has not played basketball in five months.
2:05.0	He stopped playing because his right knee wouldn't allow him to play more than two games against the Mavericks.
2:12.0	Three months ago, he was sent home from USA basketball because they weren't sure that he could play.
2:18.0	Now we have a situation where the clippers are leaving the door open that Kauai could miss the start of the season.
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