Kawhi, LeBron, Embiid, Luka & 10 Post-Christmas NBA Takeaways
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🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, Ben Golliver and Michael Pina reconvene after a short holiday break to run through 10 takeaways from the NBA on Christmas. Did Kawhi Leonard seal his spot as the greatest player in basketball? Are LeBron James and the Lakers finally showing some cracks? Has anyone actually forgotten about Joel Embiid? How should the Bucks react to their humbling loss? Should Al Horford regret his decision to leave Boston? Why wasn't Luka Doncic scheduled to play on Christmas? Was Masai Ujiri the NBA's Executive of the Decade? Was Steve Kerr the Coach of the Decade? Has the criticism of Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets gone too far? Has the criticism of the Rockets not gone far enough?
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| 1:28.4 | What's up Open Floor Globe? This has been Galver with The Washington Post. I am joined on the |
| 1:41.2 | other line by Michael Penna of Espination. Now, Michael, I trust that you had a great holiday break, |
| 1:47.0 | but we are back with two episodes this week here on Open Floor. We appreciate all the loyal |
| 1:52.6 | Open Floor Globe members for emailing us in all of their takes over the last holiday week. |
| 1:57.9 | Just some phenomenal emails that have continued to come, despite us taking a little bit of a |
| 2:03.2 | hiatus last week. So I greatly appreciate that. But Michael, what I thought we would do here |
| 2:08.2 | is kind of pick up the pieces, right? We both watched the Christmas Day games very intently, |
| 2:13.8 | the Quinn Tupleheter. And there's been some other interesting games here over the last couple days as |
| 2:18.4 | well. So what I thought we would do is pull together maybe 10 post Christmas takeaways, |
| 2:24.0 | featuring or tangentially referencing the 10 teams that played on Christmas, because obviously a |
| 2:29.6 | lot of those teams are going to be factoring in pretty heavily to the the playoff picture as we |
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