Knicks change coaches, Giannis vs. LeBron Finals dreams, the case for Team Fandom
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Ben Golliver and Michael Pina ask the questions no one else is asking about the New York Knicks' coaching change. Who, really, is to blame for the players' lack of effort? If Masai Ujiri were to actually consider becoming Knicks president, what type of ludicrous negotiation demands should he make? Can we safely assure an Australian listener that the Knicks won't make the 2020 playoffs? From there, they switch gears to digging into the narrative possibilities of a 2020 NBA Finals match-up between Giannis Antetokounmpo's Milwaukee Bucks and LeBron James's Los Angeles Lakers. Which factors make this potential showdown of juggernauts so exciting? Would it be more like the 1991 Finals or the 2007 Finals? Ben and Michael close with questions from the Open Floor Globe about Trae Young's true value and Brandon Ingram's remarkable rise, plus a passionate case for eschewing player fandom in favor of being a team fan through thick and thin.
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| 0:00.0 | Last season, millions tuned into the betrayal podcast to hear a shocking story of deception. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Andrea Gunning, and now we're sharing an all-new story of betrayal. |
| 0:10.3 | Ashley Litten was helping her husband set up a business fanmail account when she discovered |
| 0:14.3 | a terrible secret. I saw a hidden folder, and I opened it. What the hell did I just see? |
| 0:23.3 | Listen to season two of betrayal on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:28.2 | podcasts. On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the |
| 0:34.7 | drawing boards of this team to experience the life breathed into the Bridgerton prequel. Listen to |
| 0:40.9 | the Leaps executive producer and series director Tom Barraka took to capture the feeling that |
| 0:46.3 | puts that lump in your throat. And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, |
| 0:52.5 | diamonds, and mics. You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday, |
| 0:58.0 | on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:28.6 | What's up Open Floor Globe, this is Ben Galver, and on the other line joining me is Michael |
| 1:41.5 | Pena of SBN now Michael. I got up a little early today so I could go do some grocery shopping. |
| 1:47.6 | I walked out my front door, and what was waiting for me, but a spider suspended. I think about |
| 1:54.6 | five feet off the ground, but probably with the web that was about five feet hanging down from |
| 1:59.3 | this ceiling, greeting me right as I stepped out my front door. So you know what I did. I had to do |
| 2:04.9 | it for the gram. I'm taking slow-mo videos, I'm taking portrait mode, I'm really digging into |
| 2:10.4 | this like natural evolution, but then I realized if I just blindly put that on my Instagram story, |
| 2:16.5 | or if I texted that to you right before we were about to record a podcast, I might throw you off |
| 2:22.8 | for the entire day because last week we learned you and spiders do not mix. So rather than |
| 2:29.1 | psych you out and try to flu game you, I didn't do it for the gram. I didn't do it for the likes. |
| 2:35.7 | I kept those spider pictures tucked in my pocket, and now we're going to go forward talking about |
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