Quarterly NBA awards, the ethics of a scoring rampage, Spurs’ faith dwindling?
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Ben Golliver and Michael Pina reconvene after the long holiday weekend to hand out first-quarter NBA awards. LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo or James Harden for MVP? Is Luka Doncic both an MVP candidate and the MIP favorite? Who are Michael's off-the-radar picks for Most Improved and Sixth Man? From there, they shift gears to discuss the evolving ethics of stat-hunting in blowouts. Should Harden have chased Kobe Bryant's 81-point mark or did the Houston Rockets do the right thing by shutting him down? To close, Ben and Michael take emails from the Open Floor Globe on the dwindling prospects of the San Antonio Spurs and a snowy sunrise at Bryce Canyon National Park.
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| 1:49.0 | Now, Michael, we've made it to about the quarter pole of the NBA season. |
| 1:53.7 | Most teams have played right around 20 games, if not more than 20 games. |
| 1:57.9 | That's a very natural time in the NBA calendar to just check in on the awards races. |
| 2:03.2 | You go back in various years, the first quarter award winners aren't necessarily always |
| 2:09.6 | going to be the final award winners, but sometimes you get a good look at early trends, |
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