PMS 2.0 1339 - Feel Good Friday With Shams Charania, Pete Thamel, J.R. Smith, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap last night’s NBA playoff game that saw the Warriors get handled by the Timberwolves without Stephen Curry, as well as two great games in the NHL Playoffs with the Capitals beating the Canes 3-1, and the Oilers beating the Golden Knights 5-4 in overtime. Joining the show to chat more about everything going on in the NBA Playoffs, is ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania. Next, The Authority on both college football and college basketball, Pete Thamel joins the show to chat about the 16 team playoff that looms, the budget of top college football programs this upcoming year, some QB battles, when a ruling is coming to establish some guardrails, and more. Later, 2x NBA Champion, 2013 Sixth Man of the Year, 17 year NBA veteran, JR Smith joins the show to chat about the playoffs, his golf career, and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow 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 on Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello beautiful people and welcome to our humble abode the thunder doe on this feel good Friday, May 9th, 2025.
0:09.9	This program starts now.
0:13.5	Spore!
0:14.1	Are happening all around us and we're so incredibly lucky that we get a chance to chat about it.
0:17.9	Obviously the NBA and the NHL playoffs continued on last night
0:20.9	with some magic taking place deep into the evening as the NHL had an overtime game on the West Coast.
0:26.6	So that's a 132 a.m. call time if you were to watch the entirety of that game. We have somebody
0:31.2	in the Thunderdome that actually did that and even tweeted about it at about 2 a.m.
0:35.3	And it is heartbroken by McJesus and the boys of the Oilers who have now won six straight
0:41.2	playoff games, which is a record in the NHL after being down a significant amount.
0:46.3	They've won six straight games after trailing.
0:49.2	They've come back every single time.
0:50.7	This is a gritty group.
0:51.6	Obviously, we watched them do their thing in the playoffs in the run last year. We had them mic'd up. They had cameras in the locker room.
0:57.2	McJesus is yelling at the boys. They thought last year was going to be the year. Is this
1:00.8	the year that the Edmonton Oilers are the team of destiny? Is this the year that McJesus
1:06.0	cements his name is not only one of the greats to ever play, but also a guy, that's tough for Jackie Acese.
1:12.1	Jackie Ais has had a great game. He did. That's Jack Eichael that just got absolutely
1:15.6	demolished there at the blue line, okay? He was the best player on the ice for the Vegas
1:19.4	Golden Knights, the entire game, just so happened to get a McJesus train on him in the O.T, bang, to lose the game. Now, that's tough for Jack Eichael. Jack Eiff is his dog.
1:30.1	Stoner, also going to be able to bounce back. They think they got screwed because of a little
1:33.8	bit of an ice pick that happened in overtime. Now, nonetheless, hockey is awesome, and that game
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