Let’s Discuss NBA ALL-STAR and TANKING… | The Old Man and the Three
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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On this week’s episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three,’ Cam Johnson and Tommy Alter discuss everything from All-Star weekend, including the game, dunk contest, and location, as well as the recent developments and conversations around tanking in the NBA and what suggestions they can think of to fix all of it. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Old Man of the Three. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm your host, Cam Johnson, joined by co-host Tommy Alter. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we're coming to you from Scottsdale, Arizona, end of All-Star break. |
| 0:20.4 | Recap, All Things All--Star and everything else in between. |
| 0:24.0 | Tommy, how you doing? |
| 0:25.1 | Good, man. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:27.6 | We're taping this Monday afternoon. |
| 0:30.5 | So the All-Star game was yesterday. |
| 0:32.9 | The weekend, obviously, there's a lot going on. |
| 0:36.2 | What were your initial thoughts on the game first, |
| 0:40.4 | just on yesterday's game? I was there. I call it a success. It's always an interesting format |
| 0:47.6 | when it's always interesting when there's multiple teams, and so there's multiple games, |
| 0:52.3 | and that kind of, on one hand to me it proved |
| 0:55.6 | to be beneficial specifically because you have action at the end of every little quarter where it's |
| 1:02.1 | like we had game winners like we have multiple game winners uh defense kind of locked in on those close |
| 1:07.1 | games offense kind of locked in on those close games. It's just, I think the one thing |
| 1:12.9 | that's maybe a little bit tougher to adjust about it is that it is different than what we're |
| 1:17.2 | used to. Yeah. And like the glory days of the All-Star, if that's a thing. And for some reason, |
| 1:23.2 | like the presentation just seemed a little different. And it might just be how they decided to do it, but it seemed, the court seemed a lot more |
| 1:31.8 | isolated from the crowd. |
| 1:34.6 | The lights didn't necessarily seem as bright, if that makes sense. |
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