Nicolas Batum on How the Clippers Turned Their Season Around & the James Harden and Ivica Zubac Trades
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this Friday’s episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three,’ we welcome Nicolas Batum of the Los Angeles Clippers back to the show! He opens up about so much, including:
- How the Clippers turned their season around after starting 6-21
- Kawhi’s dominance this season
- The James Harden and Ivica Zubac trades
- Addition on Darius Garland
- Brandon Roy stories
- His tough Charlotte years and the motivation that came from them
- Victor Wembanyama
…and much more. Let’s go!
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| 0:22.0 | Mr. Batoon. |
| 0:23.3 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:23.9 | I'm good and you. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm good. |
| 0:26.2 | Long time, no, C. |
| 0:28.8 | Last time we taped one of these was in June. |
| 0:31.8 | I feel like you guys have had five seasons. |
| 0:33.4 | You just said this, five seasons and one. |
| 0:35.6 | I've been in this league for 18 years. |
| 0:47.7 | This is the weirdest season I've been part of. I mean, yeah, it's been a long season, some up and downs. But yeah, it's been fun actually. So on a broad level, what is your advice to the younger guys? Because you've seen a lot in the NBA in those 18 years. What is your advice to the younger guys because you've seen you've seen a lot in the NBA |
| 0:56.8 | in those 18 years what is your advice to the younger guys on dealing with some of just the |
| 1:02.6 | outside noise in general not even even getting into all the specifics of it um but just like |
| 1:08.3 | every day it feels like there's a new story there's there's something on |
| 1:13.7 | Twitter there's just something that's popping off that oftentimes doesn't actually really |
| 1:18.2 | affect what's going on in the locker room but from the outside perspective it's in there so |
| 1:22.4 | what's your kind of advice and just dealing with it in general I mean when you talk about social |
| 1:27.4 | media is like don't really pay attention to it. I don't. And I really stopped doing that 10 years ago. Like, it can affect people, for sure. It can affect people. Like, you have a bad player, bad game, or some happen or some dumb app, and you can get on your phone, this time, waiting stuff, and I can get you down pretty quickly. so just see off on your phone this time waiting stuff and they can get you down pretty quickly so |
| 1:46.3 | just say off of your phone just don't rest off or if you do like it's not the real life it's not the real |
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