Bobby Portis on How Hard It Is to Win the NBA Finals, Giannis, and His Improved 3-Point Shooting | YM3
The Old Man and the Three
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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On this week’s YM3, we welcome Bobby Portis of the Milwaukee Bucks!
Bobby opens up about so much — what it was like in his first few years in the NBA on the Chicago Bulls, winning a championship with the Bucks in 2021 and the challenges of winning the Finals, what it’s like playing with Giannis Antetokounmpo, his improved three-point shooting, and his goals for the rest of the season. Let’s go!
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| 0:28.0 | Welcome. yours. Welcome back to The Young Man in the Three, as always presented by 342 productions and our friends at Amazon Wondery Media. Today's episode is a special one we |
| 0:35.2 | taped in L.A. last week with friend of the show, we haven't talked to him |
| 0:40.4 | in a while. The one and only Mr. Bobby Portis, they were in town playing the Lakers. Bobby's a |
| 0:45.8 | character and a self. And so we thought this would be fun to do a solo app with Bobby. We get into |
| 0:51.8 | this season, finals, Arkansas, everything in between. Guys got a million |
| 0:56.5 | stories. I think you guys are really going to enjoy. Without further ado, here is Bobby Portis. |
| 1:07.4 | Bobby Portis in the building. Yes, sir. Since the last time we recorded one of these, we're just talking about this off-camera, |
| 1:14.5 | you've accomplished many things, one of which is being on the show Bar Rescue. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, that's funny. |
| 1:21.8 | It was crazy, too. |
| 1:23.5 | So they actually asked me to do it, and then they I can only bring like one guest or whatever it was. |
| 1:29.9 | But I end up bringing two guests. |
| 1:31.7 | It was my brother and it was my manager, consultant, father figure, Marcus McCurrow. |
| 1:38.3 | I had, it was all three of us on there. |
| 1:40.3 | And John is a crazy guy. |
| 1:43.1 | He takes his job very seriously. But I see why, like, the show is a success of just how it's ran and how strict he is. Did you watch it before or now? So, like, I actually heard about it, but I didn't actually tap all way into it until, like, maybe a couple of weeks before I was going to jump on. And then when I actually watched, I'm like, oh, like, he's dead-ass serious, how he, like, runs his company. So it was fun. I wasn't, like, a fan originally, but then when I got into it, it's super, you roll through a bunch of them. Yeah. It's super addictive. But it's also very, it's very, like, relatable to anybody that's had to clean anything. |
| 2:19.7 | Absolutely. So like what's so crazy is like when he actually taps into your business, |
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