Cam Johnson’s 2026 NBA Playoff Primer | The Play-in Tournament, Wolves Series, and More
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three,’ Cam Johnson of the Denver Nuggets helps get us ready for the 2026 NBA playoffs by sharing some thoughts on the play-in tournament (Hornets, Steph Curry, and more), lessons he’s learned from playoff series he been a part of in the past, and what he’s excited for in the Nuggets first round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | One of the main things I've learned and like a wide variety of types of playoff series that I've been in is like, playoff experience just lets you know that the ahead is unknown, you know? |
| 0:15.7 | What happened last game has nothing to do. |
| 0:17.4 | It's going to happen. |
| 0:17.9 | The next game and the game after, like you have to give respect to each and every quarter possession of basketball that you play. |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome back to another episode of The Old Man 3. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined by co-host Tommy Alter and the one and only. |
| 0:44.9 | Halo. |
| 0:46.0 | It sounds like, it seems like one of us is getting replaced. |
| 0:50.1 | It should be me, but I feel like Halo could take this show over from YouTube. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's see if she has anything interesting to add today. |
| 0:57.8 | Let's see if I don't know if we can fit her contract negotiations. |
| 1:02.8 | I think we're going to pay up together. |
| 1:06.1 | How are you feeling, man? |
| 1:07.8 | I'm good, man. |
| 1:08.6 | Just excited for what's coming. |
| 1:10.6 | You know, this is what we do all of this for, |
| 1:13.1 | 82 games in the regular season, preseason training camp, all to have a shot at postseason basketball. |
| 1:19.9 | One housekeeping note, I think we'll start with before we get into some of the play and stuff. |
| 1:24.2 | We're taping this Thursday afternoon. So the playoffs start Saturday. |
| 1:29.2 | We will not be taping episodes obviously in the middle of the rounds, but we'll be taping them |
| 1:35.3 | when there are dead points throughout the playoffs where it is a good time to tape because |
| 1:40.3 | we need to respect the sanctity of a series. |
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