WNBA Head For Long Lockout & Giannis To NY!? (w/ Rachel Nichols)
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Chris Mannix and Rachel Nichols discuss LeBron's non-decision "announcement" before getting into the WNBA's battle between the players and commissioner Cathy Engelbert. We also break down the news that the Bucks spoke to the Knicks about Giannis this summer, why we think Victor Wembanyama could win the MVP this season, and why the Wolves young players need to come through this year after two years of roster degradation
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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. |
| 0:17.2 | And now it begins. |
| 0:18.3 | Now it begins. |
| 0:19.6 | Bang! |
| 0:23.1 | This is the open floor NBA podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | We talk about the league and all the big stories going on in it. |
| 0:30.1 | Joining me, as she does every week from Fox Sports One, All the Smoke, Monumental Sports |
| 0:35.4 | Network, and right here every week on the show, |
| 0:43.2 | the great Rachel Nichols and Rachel, we thought maybe in the morning hours we might have something big to talk about. |
| 0:45.1 | Well, I mean, there was at least, there was at least the possibility that. |
| 0:51.8 | This is how you know that the NBA hasn't really gotten going yet. I know, I know. The possibility that LeBron James was going to announce something significant. He teased it on Monday night. The decision, part two, turns out to be just another marketing campaign this time for Hennessy whiskey. So I guess it worked. We gave them a quick plug, but a lot of pissed off people, I think, on social media at Rachel, after the fact. But you're right. We didn't, we shouldn't have expected anything more than that because I think you and I both know when LeBron decides to hang him up, it's going to come, it's going to be a lot bigger than this. |
| 1:29.5 | Like, it's not going to be just kind of a social media tease that, you know, results at him |
| 1:35.4 | saying, this is my final season. Like, that's, that's not how this is going to go down. |
| 1:39.5 | Especially in the middle of the second week of training camp. I have two TV news outlets I work for regularly who called me yesterday about, okay, what time can we have you on after he makes the announcement? And I was just like, guys, it's an ad, it's an ad, it's an ad. Because this is, I mean, we've actually seen this from LeBron himself before and sort of tease something and then 24 hours later it's an ad. I think this time... |
| 2:00.9 | Last year. Last year we literally saw it. Right? And I think this time the use of the decision |
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