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

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

Author: ThreeFourTwo Productions | Wondery April 4, 2025 Duration: 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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