Brian Windhorst and Cam Johnson on the Relationship Between NBA Media and Players, Covering LeBron James, and NBA Storytelling
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three’, Cam Johnson and Tommy Alter are joined by ESPN’s Brian Windhorst!
We loved this conversation. Windy and Cam discuss everything from some of Windy and Cam’s favorite basketball stories and travels around the world, the current relationship between NBA media and players and how it’s evolved throughout Windy’s career, Windy covering LeBron James since high school and his origin story of getting into media, NBA storytelling, and what Windy is looking forward to about this upcoming playoffs. Let’s go!
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| 0:26.1 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined by co-host Tommy Alter. |
| 0:29.0 | Today, our guest is none other than the Brian Windhorse, aka Wendy. |
| 0:33.0 | Wendy, how you doing, man? |
| 0:34.3 | What's up, Cam? |
| 0:34.9 | How are you doing, man? |
| 0:35.9 | All right. |
| 0:36.3 | Thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:37.3 | Hey, I just remember hanging out with you in a restaurant in abou dhabi a few years ago yeah |
| 0:42.6 | absolutely on the other side of the restaurant there was this guy who was hiding from his entourage |
| 0:49.7 | and i went over there and sat with him after we hung out um Tommy lloy who was coach of University of Arizona, and I hung out with him. So I was remember that night. It was crazy. He had all his, they were playing some games there against Kansas State. They were. And I think he was trying to hide from the fans that were traveling with him. So he like tried to, there was this little like secret restaurant that like if you knew if you knew you knew and he was back there so the one that was tucked |
| 1:16.1 | into the hotel huh yeah you remember like if you knew where to go you knew where to go but if you |
| 1:19.7 | did you didn't yeah yeah for sure what a weekend was that USA was that USA was that USA yeah it was absolutely amazing experience um that you know |
| 1:30.6 | literally went around the world with uh with literally a circle around the world yeah |
| 1:35.1 | Vegas Spain Abu Dhabi did you do manila yes yeah yeah tell him about your flight back from Manila. |
| 1:47.3 | I had those last couple days I had food poisoning in Manila. |
| 1:52.0 | I remember you were sick, right? You missed the bronze game. |
| 1:54.8 | Oh man. I was so sick and I did not know if I was going to make it on that flight back. |
| 2:00.4 | I was like, this is where it ends for me. You on that flight back. I was like, this is, this is where it answered me. |
| 2:02.5 | You could just leave me. |
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