Wemby's Unreal Start & Boston's Playoff Despair (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
SI NBA
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols break down how the stellar Austin Reaves and Deandre Ayton will have to lead a Lakers team in a stretch without Luka & LeBron. We also discuss Wemby's early hall of fame level play, the Spurs young core, and why the winless Celtics may not want to make the play in to cash in on a loaded draft
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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. |
| 0:14.2 | My guy Chris Manix. |
| 0:15.4 | I think your opinion is shared by everyone. |
| 0:17.2 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.6 | Bang! |
| 0:23.9 | All right. Now it begins. Back! All right. |
| 0:30.2 | Open Floor, NBA podcast, Chris Mannix, Rachel Nichols, Fox Sports, All the Smoke, Monumental Sports Network, and of course, right here every week on this podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | A lot to get into on this episode, Rachel. |
| 0:54.1 | We're back into the... Busy, baby. To the NBA swing of things. Can I tell you my quick Los Angeles story? Please. So I live in the downtown area. Chris is the one who lives down here. I'm the one, more of an like arts district-y area, I would say. And I was up last night watching the end of the Laker game. |
| 0:58.3 | And I heard this commotion from a building like two blocks away. |
| 1:03.2 | And it actually sounds like somebody is being murdered. |
| 1:06.5 | So I'm kind of freaking out. |
| 1:09.3 | And then I realized something that I clocked a couple of days ago was that we were told |
| 1:13.4 | there would be filming a TV show there at night. |
| 1:16.9 | This is not the things you experience living in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:21.8 | You don't get film shoots in the middle of October. |
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