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The Young Man and the Three

Alex Caruso and Jalen Williams on the Thunder’s Historic Season, NBA Media, and Award Season

Apr 4, 2025
57:00

For this episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three Things’ we welcome back Alex Caruso and Jalen Williams of the NBA-best Oklahoma City Thunder, as well as Trey Murphy of the New Orleans Pelicans. Trey opens the episode by sharing his thoughts on the Thunder season, their addition of Isaiah Hartenstein, the leap Jalen has taken in his career, and also Nikola Jokic’s (Denver Nuggets) 60-point triple double. The Alex and Jalen join to discuss all things about the Thunder’s historic season, including Shai Gilegeous-Alexander and more. They also unleash some takes they have on coverage of the NBA in the media, NBA awards, and movies and tv. It’s another great episode, let’s go.

0:00 Start

0:50 Intro with Trey Murphy

9:11 Alex and Jalen join

9:30 “Watch the games” and their issues with NBA media coverage

18:39 The collective effort of the Thunder

23:53 Jalen on his improvement

26:36 Thoughts on NBA awards, Lu Dort praise

34:00 Efficiency of the Thunder and Shai praise

37:45 Shoutout to the Bulls

39:00 Teams we like watching

39:57 March Madness and NIL

46:59 TV and movie talk

55:40 MVP cases for Shai

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