Our Quarter Season NBA Awards (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols discuss the Klay Thompson vs. Ja Morant feud before debating our quarter season awards for the league so far including MVP, coach of the year, rookie of the year, most improved, sixth man, and more
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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 Mannix. |
| 0:15.4 | I think your opinion is shared by everyone. |
| 0:17.1 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.5 | Bang! |
| 0:24.1 | All right, Rachel Nichols. Can I start this show with a borderline misogynistic complaint? |
| 0:31.1 | Man, this could go in any direction. |
| 0:33.1 | Go ahead. |
| 0:34.1 | Give it a girl. |
| 0:35.1 | Why do women have such a hard time refilling a gas tank? In what way? I'm very good at refilling. Oh, you mean waiting until the last moment? Because that is my move. Right. I get in my car. My wife was out earlier in the day, driving around, running some errands. Yes. I get in the car to drive here to the studio. Yes. |
| 0:54.4 | And there's literally nothing. |
| 0:55.6 | Like, it is as bone dry as you can get. I'm going the quarter mile to the gas station, basically cruising. Right. I'm hitting the gas. I hope this first. I just going, like hoping I get there. And that is not the first time. No. I've done that. So I'm just attributing it to the fair sex. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm going to blanket two answers. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay. time. No. I've done that. So I'm just attributing it to the fair sex. I'm going to blanket. |
| 1:13.6 | Two answers. Okay. Because women are always doing more than the men they live with. |
| 1:17.9 | That's probably, so it is lower down the priority list. And then second of all, we are used to |
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