Episode 173: Khris Middleton

The Young Man and the Three

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's another day here in OM3 world and we're psyched welcome in Milwaukee Bucks star, Khris Middleton. Khris was gracias enough to sit down for his very first podcast interview. Let's get to it. Topics include: JJ's intro on Milwaukee's ability to compete in the future, Khris Middleton on last year's playoff disappointment, playoff Jimmy going OFF on The Bucks, Giannis' comments last year about "failure", his stressful NBA draft story, the growth and development between he and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the batman vs. robin media narrative with he and Giannis and how they've learned to play together, why the series against Kevin Durant and The Brooklyn Nets was SO stressful, the key moments from that playoff run that led to an NBA Championship, what he learned from becoming a champion, why he tries to stay out of the limelight, and the most gratifying part of his NBA career.

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0:18.2	Music.
0:25.5	Welcome to The Old Men of the Three with J.J. Reddick and Tommy Alter brought to you
0:28.6	by three, four, two productions.
0:30.3	This is episode 173, Chris Middleton, Tommy, I sat down with Chris last week.
0:38.0	Very first time he's done a podcast, we got to do a lot of stuff.
0:42.2	What are the interesting things he said to me, and we're going to talk bucks in a second.
0:46.8	One of the interesting things he said to me about last year's playoff series against
0:52.4	Miami, and this season, and they're the bucks championship hopes, repeated it twice,
1:00.4	and you guys will listen to this, but he said, we can't, we've realized we can't win
1:07.8	unless we're playing our best.
1:09.6	No excuses, right?
1:11.6	Yannis was hurt, whatever, it's not about that.
1:14.8	We can't win unless we're playing our best.
1:18.1	And I think that is universal in the NBA.
1:21.3	You think about teams that win a championship, they're playing their best in the playoffs.
1:26.8	Yeah.
1:27.8	There's no other way.
1:28.6	There's no other way.
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