PMS 2.0 1030 - Trenches Wednesday With NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, JJ Watt, AQ Shipley and Darius Butler LIVE In The ThunderDome, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 178 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AQ Shipley, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys are back in Indianapolis at the ThunderDome as they deal with a few technical issues to start the show. They discuss Roger Goodell potentially banning the Brotherly Shove, why Brock Purdy doesn’t get any credit for the season he is having, and everything else happening around the NFL as we prepare for a real barn burner tomorrow night to start week 14. Joining the show to chat about the success of the NBA in-season tournament, what improvements he would consider making next year, if this is going to be an every year tournament, the global growth of the NBA game, handling the intersection of gambling and the NBA and where he see’s it going in the future, and much more is the Commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver (21:16-48:07). Later, future Hall of Famer, member of the Houston Texans Hall of Fame, 3x DPOY, 7x All-Pro, 5x Pro Bowler, 2017 Walter Payton Man of the Year, JJ Watt joins the show to chat about his biggest takeaway’s from this past week in the NFL, his thoughts on the College Football Playoff, his thoughts on tomorrow night’s Patriots vs. Steelers game, being a Pizza Hut delivery driver in college, and much more (1:00:29-1:53:57). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. Or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Pat Macus show in live on ESPAN.
0:05.0	All right, we had a little bit of a studio meltdown about a minute and a half before we went live.
0:11.0	I guess all the sound from this particular
0:13.8	studio was not getting sent out to the fine folks at ESPN or even to our YouTube.
0:18.3	We want to let you know, thanks for hanging around. We have a huge trenches Wednesday today.
0:24.0	Obviously, J.J. Watt will be joining us,
0:25.7	which he does every single Wednesday.
0:27.7	But also the Commissioner of the NBA,
0:29.3	Adam Silver, will be joining us
0:31.3	on this particular program in about 22 minutes. I'm happy you're going to be able to hear it because we're going to do it anyways
0:36.2	But we're going to get a chance to chat with him about everything popping off around the MBA cup
0:41.3	This is Adam Silver's baby
0:43.0	this middle of the season tournament that has made things matter
0:46.0	you know we'll change the quarter a little bit
0:48.0	we'll put five hundred thousand dollars on a line for everybody on the roster
0:51.0	and at the beginning everybody laughed and
0:53.3	so it was just a mega ball what is just the Flint tropics trying to get into eighth
0:57.1	place to continue to exist what a fugays what a joke now you hear all the players
1:01.6	that are involved yeah yeah there's a little bit added energy.
1:05.0	There's a little bit of heightened thing.
1:06.0	My family, my friends, fans of the game,
1:08.0	we're getting a little bit more excited and also half a million dollars
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