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This is Open Floor.

Sports Illustrated's Chris Manix 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 podcast where we talk about the NBA and everything going on. On this episode, I will be joined by Kenny Smith, the former two-time NBA champion best known these days as one-fourth

of the famed inside the NBA crew will get into inside the NBA its future with Turner

set to lose those NBA rights after this season

plus some NBA some Olympics talk with Kenny as well but first the Minnesota

Timberwolves were one of the best stories in the league last season.

Lynch of this one with pretty high expectations.

No better person to talk Timberwolves this week than John Krasinski, the Wolves writer at the Athletics.

Sometimes you'll see him manning the sidelines

with his TV suit on, good to go, always,

always happy to double dip.

John, I know the feeling feeling though because I did that in

Boston for a while and it is nice sometimes to get two paychecks. It is nice to get

two yeah if you can it better than one usually and so yeah I'll take it wherever I can come and and as you

know when you get your face on TV just a little bit it doesn't hurt the brand so

I'll stick with it so it's remarkable how that works sometimes too like guys tend to talk to you a little bit more get a little more loose with you all because you do

20 second stand-ups for three or four times a game it's remarkable to do I do that very poorly too, like I am not a pro at all, but hey, whatever works.

So, I believe me, I know that feeling as well.

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