The New King of LA, Charles Barkley’s take summit, Opening week instant reactions
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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4.5 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney discuss TNT commentator Charles Barkley's latest take summit. Ben lays out Barkley's thoughts on why Kawhi Leonard has surpassed LeBron James after the Clippers' opening win over the Lakers. They also dissect two other Barkley ideas: that Anthony Davis needs to be the Lakers' best player if they're going to win the title, and that Paul George will face significant pressure in the 2020 playoffs. From there, Ben and Rob take questions from the Open Floor Globe on why no one cares about Andre Drummond, Kyrie Irving's 50-point Brooklyn debut, and whether it was acceptable for a listener to cut short a trip to San Diego so that he could return to Ohio and watch basketball by himself.
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| 1:39.7 | What's up Open Floor Globe? This is Ben Galver with The Washington Post. I am joined on the other |
| 1:44.8 | line by Rob Mahoney of Sports Illustrated. Now Rob, whenever people ask me about you, I say Rob, |
| 1:51.5 | he's a very polite guy, great guy. He's a writer's writer. It's the technique. It's the attention |
| 1:57.8 | to detail. That's how I describe you. I bring this up, Rob, because yesterday I had the pleasure |
| 2:05.5 | of spending a couple hours with the takesman's takesman, and that would be Charles Barkley. Now |
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