Kevin Harlan Is Your Fave Announcer's Fave Announcer
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Chris Mannix is joined by Kevin Harlan to talk about how he got it into broadcasting right out college, the great advice he got from John Madden to open up on the mic, moving from TNT to call the NBA on Amazon, and how he can make anything sound exciting
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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. |
| 0:17.2 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.6 | Bang! |
| 0:21.7 | All right. Joining me on the show, one of the most recognizable voices in sports broadcasting history. |
| 0:28.8 | He just wrapped up a nearly three-decade run calling NBA games over at Turner Sports. |
| 0:35.0 | This season, he will be leading the coverage for Amazon as begins |
| 0:39.3 | its first year as an NBA broadcast partner. He is the great Kevin Harlan and Kevin. I guess |
| 0:45.3 | my first question for you would be, are you at all surprised to find yourself now calling |
| 0:51.4 | games for a website that if you're like me, you probably ordered a lot |
| 0:57.3 | of shampoo from in the past. Well, I haven't ordered it, Chris, but my wife has. And I've watched |
| 1:05.3 | her do it. But hey, listen, great. So wonderful to join you. And we're just talking off our mics here for a second, |
| 1:12.9 | that reading you has been a real joy and your coverage of the league is incredible. And I'm a fan from afar. |
| 1:19.7 | So first time we've ever kind of been together on the same platform, but really nice to join you. |
| 1:25.4 | And it is. I mean, like my first broadcast was when I was 14 in |
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