Isaiah Hartenstein & Alex Caruso on SGA, the Secret to Making It In the NBA, and the Thunder’s Season
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We’re back with another OKC Thunder episode for this week’s ‘Young Man and the Three,’ featuring Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein!
The duo get into so much, including:
- How the Thunder have been dealing with injuries this season
- Jared McCain joining the squad
- Hart’s experience joining the team last summer
- Hart’s basketball journey, his skill progression, and G-League experience
- SGA’s impact on the Thunder’s culture
- What Hart learning playing with James Harden and Nikola Jokic
- Hart’s time the Knicks, their playoff series, and playing with Jalen Brunson
…and so much more. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Claude from Anthropic. Great basketball minds, see what others miss. |
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| 0:09.7 | or building what's next. Try it free at clod.a.ai slash old man in the three. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome back to the young man in the Three, as always presented by 3242 Productions and our friends at Amazon Wondery Media. |
| 0:40.1 | Today, we are featuring the Oklahoma City Thunder, the best team in the NBA, 49 and 15, the current defending NBA champions, friend of the show, |
| 0:45.3 | Mr. Alex Crusoe, makes his triumphant return. And we are also joined by Isaiah Hartenstein, |
| 0:50.3 | who has been asking to come on the show for some time. Finally, we'll figure, able to figure out a time to make it happen. We taped this episode last week in Oklahoma City, last Thursday in Oklahoma City. |
| 0:57.7 | They just beat the Knicks on Wednesday, 8 and 2 in their last 10. |
| 1:02.7 | This team is a unit. |
| 1:03.8 | We get into all things Hart's backstory, all things Thunder. |
| 1:07.2 | I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode. |
| 1:09.1 | Without further ado, here is Isaiah Hartenstein and Alex Crusoe, the Oklahoma City Thunder. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, this has been a long time coming. |
| 1:23.4 | Could have hard here, yeah. Can we talk about who showed up first today? |
| 1:27.4 | Oh, I did. |
| 1:28.7 | Yeah, you sent a beacon, the bat signal that you're going to be late. So I took my time. I was going to be two minutes late. And he was like, ah, typical NBA guys. I get here, 10 minutes late. But it was like six. We're fine. 207? You were just talking about |
| 1:43.7 | not golfing |
| 1:45.9 | because of how gas you are. |
| 1:47.9 | Yeah, well, but it was like six we're fine two seven you were just talking about um not golfing because of how |
| 1:46.7 | gas you are yeah what more's just like not getting gas like if i go play golf i'll probably be like |
| 1:54.7 | you know you're never at 100 percent any time of the year but right now it's like if i go out and |
| 1:59.3 | play golf it's 75 degrees sunny. |
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