The NBA season is here! Finals predictions, Zion heartbreak & Jamal Murray's swag
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney gear up for the start of the 2019-20 NBA season by making their predictions. Which teams will make the conference finals? Who will win the title? What's the dream West match-up? Are there any spoilers looming in the East? Which teams will disappoint, which will surprise, and which will be downright awful? Then, Ben and Rob shift gears to reflect on the implications of Zion Williamson's knee surgery. How bad is this for the NBA as a whole? Will he need to change his body type? Are Blake Griffin and Greg Oden reason comparison points? They close by digging into Rob's Sports Illustrated story on Jamal Murray, which features a fateful coaching decision and a brash prediction of better days to come.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on I Heart. I'm going to explore |
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| 0:27.5 | On the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.5 | On Queen Charlotte, the official podcast, we're stepping behind the scenes and the drawing |
| 0:38.0 | boards of this team to experience the life breathes into the Bridgerton prequel. Listen to the |
| 0:44.0 | Leap's executive producer and series director Tom Verica took to capture the feeling that puts |
| 0:49.5 | that lump in your throat. And you've got to catch creator Shonda Rhymes. She's dropping gems, |
| 0:55.4 | diamonds, and mics. You can listen to Queen Charlotte, the official podcast every Thursday on the |
| 1:01.1 | I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or anywhere you listen to your favorite shows. |
| 1:25.5 | What's up Open Floor Globe. This is Ben Galover with The Washington Post. I am joined on the other |
| 1:45.5 | line by Rob Mahoney of Sports Illustrated who was in the magazine and be a preview issue this week |
| 1:52.4 | with not one but two feature stories. You don't see that every year. Absolutely love to see that |
| 1:57.4 | from you Rob. Congratulations. Hopefully you will bear with me here for a second because I have |
| 2:02.8 | an extended boxing metaphor that I've just got to get through. I feel like our spirit has been |
| 2:08.8 | pummeled by this China story for two straight weeks. Don't worry. We're not going to dig back into that |
| 2:13.8 | again guys. You know, we heard you loud and clear enough try to talk. But as I was just being |
| 2:19.4 | pummeled to the body, just you know, punch after punch after punch by this China story. |
| 2:25.6 | All of a sudden my hands dropped. My face was wide open and I got jabbed straight in the mouth |
| 2:31.6 | by the Zion Williamson injury news. And I think by now the Open Floor Globe knows that I basically |
| 2:38.8 | treat Zion like my very large adult son. It's a little bit of an unusual relationship between us, |
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