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Now playing open floor. This is open floor.

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix back at it.

An NBA podcast with Sports Illustrated senior writer.

I think it's time that the world get to know my guy Chris Mannix I think your opinion shared by everyone and now it begins now it begins

This is the open floor and be a podcast when we talk about the league and all the big story of the lines in it

joining me on this episode apparently in Connecticut where he's following the Indiana

fever is the Washington Post Ben Goliver. So when the NBA is out of

season Ben and the Olympics are over,

you pick up the W NBA beat, always trying to stay busy.

Yeah, I don't want to take too much credit for it.

Mostly, I was like, let's just see what Caitlin Clark's playoff looks like.

First game game kind of

rough for her but it's a nice lull in the season I feel like all the guys came

back from Paris and they agreed let's make no news whatsoever and then Woes decides to retire so there's really a

dearth of news going on so it's been a nice lull here for the NBA season so

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