THE KINGS EPISODE | Maxine Raynaud, Precious Achiuwa, and Nique Clifford
The Old Man and the Three
ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
It’s the Sacramento Kings episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three,’ featuring Maxine Raynaud, Precious Achiuwa, and Nique Clifford!
In this extremely enjoyable and candid conversation, they get into so much including:
- Max and Nique’s draft night
- Nique’s backstory growing up Colorado and more
- Max’s backstory in France and decision to go to Stanford
- Precious moving to Queens from Nigeria and going to Monteverde Academy
- The moment they knew they could be pro and welcome to the NBA moments
- Precious on his Miami Heat and New York Knicks Years
- Learning from Russell and DeMar DeRozan, especially Max and Nique in their rookie years
- Lessons from this season and the attitude of the team
…and so much more. Let’s go!
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| 0:00.0 | All of them were like in a row. |
| 0:02.0 | Like he scored the first one? |
| 0:03.0 | Oh yeah, throw it to him. Same thing. Then the last one was even crazy because I saw Max was like, you know, he had his handstand. You had the arms and he just shot. And he just turned around and he just shot it. Like he saw Max like, I'm like, I'm bored. Oh my God. Fight for his life. That was. I think I kind of told them like my grades were good enough and I was like, yeah, this is really good out of 20. Like, trust me. And I think they did. Which I don't know if it was a good word. They didn't do no research. Could have been a fraudulent. Oh, I mean, absolutely. Turn out okay. What do you feel like Jalen in particular, just playing with him? |
| 0:39.3 | Easily, the most like, skillful play I've ever played with. |
| 0:46.3 | Rocky would have made it to space if he was working on you? |
| 0:49.3 | He too tall. |
| 0:50.3 | We've been cooked, man. |
| 0:52.3 | We would have to go sideways. to feel. We wouldn't try that. Man. That's good. |
| 0:55.0 | We're going to go sideways. |
| 0:56.0 | It's going to the ocean. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome back to the young man in three. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome back to the young man in three. |
| 1:08.0 | As always presented by three, four two productions and our friends at Amazon Wondery Media. |
| 1:13.7 | Today's episode, very special team episode, one of the last ones we will do for a little bit because of the playoffs with the Sacramento Kings, of course, who are not playing in the playoffs, but at a really great end of the season, a bunch of super interesting guys on the group. |
| 1:28.6 | Today we are featuring Maxime Rayneau, Neke Clifford, and Precious Achua. |
| 1:34.4 | Three of the most energetic, charismatic guys around the league, definitely building blocks for what the kings are growing out there. |
| 1:42.8 | I think you guys are really going to like this conversation. |
| 1:44.6 | It goes in a lot of different directions. We taped this to Saturday before the last game of |
| 1:50.6 | the season in Portland. A lot to digest here. I think you guys are really going to enjoy. Here are the |
| 1:56.6 | Sacramento Kings, Maxime Rayneau, Neek Clifford, and Precious Achua. |
| 2:02.1 | Before we get into it, a quick shout-out to today's sponsor, Spindrift Sparkling Water. |
| 2:06.4 | Spin Drift is the only sparkling water in America made with real squeezed fruit, |
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