Christian Braun on Playing With Jokic, Learning From Russ, and Finding His Lane in the NBA
The Old Man and the Three
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week on ‘The Old Man and the Three,’ Cam Johnson welcomes one of his Denver Nuggets’ teammates, Christian Braun!
They get into CB’s college career at Kansas University, including the legendary comeback against UNC in the National Championship game. He also reminisces on what it was like winning the NCAA Tournament and then winning an NBA championship as a rookie in back-to-back seasons, and what the biggest difference was on each championship run. Cam and Christian also have an in-depth conversation about the current college landscape and NIL and share what their experiences were like were in school.
Then, CB explains what it’s like playing with Nikola Jokic and the things he had to learn about playing with him early on, what it was like playing for coach Michael Malone, what it was like playing with Russell Westbrook, and this year’s Denver team. He also opens up about why he thinks he’s facing the biggest tests of his career this season.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Claude from Anthropic. |
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| 0:08.8 | whether you're breaking down your favorite play or building what's next. |
| 0:11.8 | Try it free at clod.aI The Old Man in the Three. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined today by co-host Tommy Alter and Denver Nugget, 23 NBA champ, 2022 NCAA champ. |
| 0:38.1 | Christian Brown. |
| 0:38.7 | Christian, thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:39.9 | I wish you having me, bro. |
| 0:40.8 | Of course, anytime, anytime. |
| 0:42.7 | Tommy, where do we start today? |
| 0:43.9 | I think we start with you guys both being troll sports fans. |
| 0:49.6 | CB, you grew up in Kansas. |
| 0:51.6 | What part of Kansas? |
| 0:52.6 | I grew up in Burlington, Kansas, small town. |
| 0:55.4 | Outside of Kansas City? Yep. And then I moved a freshman year of high school. I moved to Overland |
| 0:59.1 | Park, Kansas. So bigger city in Kansas City. But not a Chiefs fan. Not a Chiefs fan. I know we were |
| 1:05.7 | just talking about it, but I was always opposite. My family, my mom, huge Missouri fan. |
| 1:11.9 | All my mom's side of her family all went to Missouri. |
| 1:14.3 | I wanted to be a Jayhawk. |
| 1:15.6 | And then, Chief, I just never was a Chief fan. |
| 1:18.8 | Always liked Tom Brady and always just kind of wanted to do the opposite. |
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