Kon Knueppel & Christian Yelich: A Fascinating NBA + MLB Crossover Podcast
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
We welcome Kon Knueppel of the Charlotte Hornets & Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers on this week’s episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three’!
In this episode, they discuss the intricacies, similarities, and differences of becoming an NBA and MLB player, and what they think it takes to be a great pro — which was really interesting to hear given the dynamics of Kon just finishing his rookie season and Yelich being an MLB veteran.
Kon discussed his background growing up in the Milwaukee area and Wisconsin as a basketball state, going to Duke, a new approach he took over the last year, and his thoughts on his impressive rookie season on the Hornets.
Christian also discussed his background making it to the majors, his career on the Brewers, what he changed during his MVP season, his thoughts on the new MLB rules (pitch clock & ABS), Shohei Ohtani, getting thrown out of games, and much more.
Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | I got picked by the Marlins in 2010. |
| 0:02.0 | See where I was going to go. 2010? Yeah, 2010. So how old were you in 2010? 18. 18. Yeah. But isn't there also, I mean, you know, you're not 18 in 2010. Were the guys in your team like, what, like this? No, I mean, what? That's a pretty crazy thing to come in. I don't recommend doing what I did by any means. |
| 0:21.5 | Usually that's a horrible idea and it's going to end really bad. |
| 0:24.4 | Cooper saying you scored 100 in one of those games? |
| 0:28.1 | 85. |
| 0:30.0 | One of the men's not bad. |
| 0:31.9 | One of the men's league games. |
| 0:34.1 | But I was actually there last night. |
| 0:35.6 | My brother scored like 65. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah. games. But I was actually there last night and my brother scored like 65. Welcome back to The Young Man, the Three, as always presented by 3-42 Productions and |
| 0:48.0 | our friends at Amazon Wondery Media. Today we have a very special episode taped earlier Thursday, the 7th, Thursday afternoon |
| 0:56.4 | in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, uh, with Khan Kniepil from the Charlotte Hornets and Christian |
| 1:02.8 | Yelich from the Milwaukee Brewers, uh, Christian former MVP, uh, one of the great MLB players |
| 1:10.8 | in the league over the last 10 to 15 years. |
| 1:14.8 | Khan grew up a crazy Brewers fan. |
| 1:17.1 | We've been talking about figuring out a good time for an episode over the last couple of months. |
| 1:21.6 | We figured why not just get the two of these guys together. |
| 1:25.4 | Khan, of course, had a historic rookie season, |
| 1:28.7 | 270 plus three-pointers, fastest player in NBA history to 103-pointers, first rookie to lead |
| 1:34.0 | the NBA in total three-pointers made. Really good conversation between these guys. We get into |
| 1:40.8 | all things. Rookie season. |
| 1:45.6 | Christian's growth as a player. |
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