Live from the Bronny James beat, more NBA cheating ideas, Peak Giannis
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Ben Golliver and Michael Pina dig deep into Bronny James and the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers. After Ben's visit to the elite high school in California, they discuss the different environments faced by LeBron James and his son, the hype that has built around the Southern California powerhouse, how the ambitious school positioned itself to land Bronny and whether a LeBron/Bronny NBA connection is possible. From there, they open it up to the Open Floor Globe for another batch of hilarious plans for cheating in the NBA. They close with questions about how Giannis Antetokounmpo can reach his absolute peak and whether Kawhi Leonard made one of the worst free agency decisions of all time.
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| 1:36.4 | What's up, Open Floor Glow. This is Ben Galver with the Washington Post. I am joined on the other line by Michael Pena, NBA writer at SB Nation and Michael. |
| 1:49.6 | We're talking here on a Wednesday because of scheduling conflicts. We're both working on some stories. So we're recording this a little bit early, but I actually think you're placed to our benefit because I am coming in hot off my first night on the |
| 2:03.9 | Bronnie James beat up at Sierra Canyon High School in Chatsworth, California. And I'm ready to just kind of take you on a tour if that's okay of what was a really impressive day all around. |
| 2:14.1 | I toured the school. I met a bunch of the administrators, the basketball coach, the athletic director. I watched, you know, their girls basketball team play, which is pretty darn good. And then I watched the boys team. |
| 2:24.6 | Just absolutely, you know, torch what are their, you know, local rivals here in the Los Angeles area. So I've got takes upon takes upon takes. I've got firsthand impressions of LeBron's oldest son. |
| 2:36.8 | There's certainly a bunch of like media commentary that we can probably get into. And I think we could even try to trace maybe some similarities and differences between what it was like when LeBron was a high school phenomenon. |
| 2:49.0 | And what it's been like now that Bronnie is a freshman and bursting onto the recruiting scene. |
| 2:54.5 | I this is so exciting. I can't wait. |
| 2:56.8 | Okay, so let me just start with the school. Okay, it's about, you know, a 45 minute drive with traffic north of Los Angeles, right? So it's what you would consider the valley. |
| 3:06.5 | You know, some people might look at it as a suburb. It's a middle class suburb, but it's a spectacular facility. Okay, the school has been probably most famous for having the |
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