The Bucks Disastrous Season & the Lakers Playoff Odds (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols break down the strange end to the regular season, discuss what the Bucks might do with Giannis this offseason after firing Doc Rivers, and look at some of the best playoff matchups, as well as what LeBron will do this offseason after what will surely be an early playoff exit.
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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 Manix. |
| 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! |
| 0:22.5 | All right, Rachel Nichols. |
| 0:24.3 | Fox Sports One, All the Smoke, monumental sports network, and right here on this show, |
| 0:28.7 | rocking your Milwaukee Bucks Green. |
| 0:31.2 | I just wanted to match the shoes, which I'm very proud of, |
| 0:34.0 | because they are both like a cool color way and shiny. |
| 0:56.3 | And what more could a girl want? So you're saying the buck's color is a coincidence. I'm saying that once you start with the shoes, you don't know with the- You gotta continue the wardrobe? You gotta continue the wardrobe. I feel the same way. Right? Right? I change the t-shirt and keep the shoes and we're good to go. And there you go. Youifully how about a wild week down the stretch wild sunday on in the nba where you had two games that i believed |
| 1:04.4 | going in would be utterly pointless Denver against san antonio Boston against Orlando on paper good |
| 1:10.7 | matchups we know the deal. |
| 1:11.9 | Neither one of these teams or a couple of the teams in each side had nothing to play for, no incentive |
| 1:16.0 | to win. And it went a little bit haywire. You could argue a disincentive to win. Dis incentive. |
| 1:21.1 | The Spurs, which I'll get into. Yeah, the Spurs who had every reason to win that game against the Denver Nuggets, |
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