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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Welcome to a very special episode of The Old Man and The Three with JJ Redick and Tommy Alter. Today's guest is former NBA player, ESPN analyst and host of the Road Trippin' Richard Jefferson. This is one of our longest episodes ever so let's get to it. Topics include: Getting into podcasting and media, the early days of his player in-season podcast Road Trippin, the difficulties of actually winning a championship in The NBA, how he was sort of responsible for The Golden State Warriors dynasty, why Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq) was the most dominant player he's ever played against, who is on his Mount Rushmore of NBA greats. Why Magic Johnson is the greatest Laker ever (according to RJ), how Michael Jordan changed the NBA for everyone, RJ reflects on his New Jersey Nets teams, why he despises The New York Knicks, how he got into broadcasting, reflecting on just how dominant LeBron James was in the 2016 NBA Finals against Stephen Curry and The Golden State Warriors, how he evolved his game by becoming a 3-point shooter, why The Denver Nuggets have the most pressure on then to win the NBA Championship this year, why he's picking The Milwaukee Bucks to win it all and so much more.
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0:30.7 | Welcome to the old man in the three with JJ Reddick and Tommy Altow brought to you by |
0:35.4 | three, four, two productions. This is episode 153, Richard Jefferson. |
0:39.8 | It is a treat to have RJ on the podcast. |
0:42.8 | He's a park comedian, a park entertainer, a wealth of basketball knowledge. |
0:49.2 | And an outstanding career and we touch on a number of flash points throughout his career. |
0:55.4 | He's also someone that I work with and that I have to unfortunately call games with. |
0:59.3 | And because of you guys have quite a chemistry together, I would say quite. |
1:03.6 | I would call it quite quite a chemistry. |
1:05.9 | Now I love RJ. |
1:07.6 | We've become friends and given that him and Channing, who is also a friend, |
1:13.6 | have had a podcast for nearly as long as I've had a podcast, |
1:19.0 | it's remarkable that we've just now got a sit down with RJ. |
1:23.5 | He was supposed to do it in summer league last July. |
1:26.2 | And we were going to call a game together that day, do the podcast and he got COVID. |
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