JONAS VALANCIUNAS | The Old Man and the Three
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three,’ host Cam Johnson welcomes his Denver Nuggets teammate Jonas Valanciunas!
The begin the episode Cam and co-host Tommy Alter address the current events in Minneapolis and the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Then with Jonas, they dive into Jonas’ 14-year NBA career, his professional career in Lithuania before the NBA, his advice to bigs in the the current NBA, why he enjoys this year’s Nuggets roster, what it’s like playing with Nikola Jokic, and so much more. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | Talking about, you know, your kid's doing some stuff, you know, crazy stuff you don't expect. |
| 0:06.3 | So you can just go by game by game and you see something, you know, something crazy happens. |
| 0:14.6 | The NBA doesn't use that slogan anymore, do they, where amazing happens? |
| 0:17.8 | That was a slogan. |
| 0:18.7 | They should bring it back. |
| 0:20.1 | NBA, where amazing happens. That was a slogan for a while, right? Yeah. slogan. They should bring it back. MBA, where amazing happens. |
| 0:21.4 | That was the slogan for a while, right? |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:23.7 | What's bringing that back? |
| 0:25.2 | Where pays happens. |
| 0:27.8 | We're a lot. |
| 0:28.5 | The pays happens. |
| 0:29.3 | It's a lot. |
| 0:30.2 | The pays happens. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah. Welcome back to the Old Man of the Three. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined by co-host Tommy Alter. |
| 0:46.8 | On this week's episode, we have Jonas Valanchunis, teammate of mine with the Denver Nuggets, having a great season so far. |
| 0:53.3 | We get into a story his life |
| 0:55.6 | how he got to the league and what he's learned in the process what a legend what a legend |
| 1:00.5 | before we get going though um we'd like to take a a moment to recognize it's going on in our |
| 1:05.8 | country specifically in Minneapolis um first and foremost our thoughts and prayers are with Renee Good, Alex |
| 1:13.5 | Pretty, and their families and their friends, and just what appears to be just an utterly |
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