Episode 166: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Matas Buzelis

The Young Man and the Three

ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We have an action packed episode of The Old Man and The Three podcast featuring 2X NBA Champion, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and newest member of the G-League Ignite and a top 5 prospect in the 2024 NBA Draft, Matas Buzelis. Topics include: JJ and Tommy talk about their realistic expectations for Victor Wembanyama and other rookies, then KCP joins us to talk about getting drunk at the NBA Championship parade after The Denver Nuggets won their first title, the differences between this championship and the Los Angeles Lakers 2020 NBA Bubble championship, the similarities between Nikola Jokic and LeBron James, what Jokic is like as a person, his relationships with Danny Green and Ish Smith, why Anthony Davis is the most unnecessarily maligned NBA Superstar today, then Matas joins us to talk why he decided to skip college and play for the G-League Ignite, his relationship with Scoot Henderson, how he got into basketball, why he loved watching JR Smith growing up, how he prepares for the game and expectations put on him and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the old man in the three add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:06.5	Welcome to the old man in the three with JJ Reddick and Tommy Alter brought to you by three four two productions
0:12.1	This is episode
0:14.6	166
0:16.0	Contavious called well Pope and
0:19.0	Madras Fuzellas
0:20.9	We all probably know who Contavious called well Pope is he just
0:25.2	Helped the Denver Nuggets when their first championship
0:28.7	We spent about 30 minutes with him getting a rundown a little bit on their run
0:34.2	Some stuff on Yoke it some stuff about his own career and being part of winning situations like he was in Denver this year and prior to the Lakers
0:43.2	Great dude really enjoyed that and then for the people that don't know
0:47.1	Madras Fuzellas is a projected top five pick in next year's draft
0:52.4	played his high school ball at a prep school sunrise Academy and
0:56.9	He will be on the G league ignite this coming season a la Scoot Henderson a la Leonard Miller a la Jalen Green
1:05.3	He's opted to not go to college. We of course grilled him on why he did not go to Duke
1:10.5	Which I'm very upset about but he stopped by our studio in Brooklyn because he was in town for the draft and just an awesome kid
1:17.6	And I hope you guys really enjoyed that part of the conversation as well. So we got two guests this week
1:22.7	But before we do that I want to talk a little bit about the draft and about Wemba Nyama
1:27.2	Tommy you just brought it up before we went live
1:30.2	Further clarification because I already tweeted about it on Jay a Carter. I thought crushed the draft. She is so well prepared
1:38.7	Incredibly articulate in making her points. She's an absolute star
1:43.2	Obviously she's a sports Emmy nominee and rightfully so we were on commercial break and she was demonstrating
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