THE BLAZERS EPISODE | Deni Avdija, Toumani Camara, and Donovan Clingan
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It’s the Portland Trail Blazers episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three’, featuring Deni Avdija, Toumani Camara, and Donovan Clingan!
The trio discuss so much, including each of their thoughts on the Blazers growth throughout the season, Toumani’s background growing up in Brussels and how became an elite defender in the NBA, Deni’s first all-star season and his thoughts from when he was traded to Portland from the Washington Wizards, as well as his take on the “foul baiting” conversation, Donovan’s UConn career and playing with Stephon Castle, what each of them have learned from Damian Lillard and Jrue Holiday, and so much more. Let’s go!
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| 0:25.4 | Thank you. at drinkspindrift.com. Welcome back to The Young Man in the Three, as always presented by 342 Productions and our friends at |
| 0:31.5 | Amazon Wondery Media. |
| 0:33.9 | Today's episode is a special early in the week edition of YM3, in part because of the playing games which start tonight, |
| 0:41.1 | one of which features players on today's episode, the Portland Trailblazers, one of the league's best stories, 42 and 40, a lot of injuries, a lot of drama throughout the season. |
| 0:51.9 | They persevered. They play the Phoenix Suns tonight in the playing game. |
| 0:56.3 | Today's episode from a player standpoint features Denny Advia to Mani Kamara and Donovan |
| 1:01.8 | Klingan, three of the brightest young stars in the league, guys that are going to be a part |
| 1:07.2 | of this Portland Corps for a long time. |
| 1:09.2 | Denny made his first All-Star team this year. We get into all things backstory, all things Portland, really special guys. We've been |
| 1:17.5 | trying to do this episode for a long time and the timing has worked out perfectly for us to release |
| 1:23.3 | this on the eve of the NBA playoffs. Without further ado, here are the Portland Trailblazers, |
| 1:29.0 | Denny Advia, Tumani Kamara, and Donovan Klingin. |
| 1:37.8 | This has been a long time coming, I feel like. Oh, yeah. Hipe for this one. We're taping this |
| 1:42.8 | Saturday after, I would say, the first game of the playoffs last night. |
| 1:47.7 | That's what it felt like. |
| 1:48.8 | Crazy game. |
| 1:50.0 | What was the vibe like in the arena? |
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