PMS 2.0 1352 - Indiana Pacers Head Coach Rick Carlisle, Jeff Passan, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys discuss the Pacers officially eliminating the Knicks in 6 games to advance to the NBA Finals, the energy and excitement around the state and Indianapolis especially, as well everything else happening around the world of sports including the MLB, college baseball, and college softball, and lastly, Detroit Lions 3x All-Pro and 4x Pro Bowl Center Frank Ragnow’s retirement from the NFL after 7 years. Joining the progrum is 2x NBA Champion (once as a player and once as a Head Coach), 2002 NBA Coach of the Year, and current Head Coach of the Indiana Pacers, Rick Carlisle joins the show to chat about what makes this Pacers team so special, why having selfless superstars like Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam trickles down throughout the locker room, what challenges the OKC Thunder present, how the Pacers embody the city and how evident it is what they’re doing is special, and much much more. Later, MLB Senior Insider and journalist, Jeff Passan joins the show to chat about the latest on the investigation surrounding the financial dealings related to a multibillion-dollar firm started and owned, in part, by the MLBPA and NFLPA, the importance of the Dodgers/Yankees series from this past weekend for baseball as a whole, some bright young prospects coming up to the majors soon, which faces in college baseball will be making waves soon, 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, we’ll see you tomorrow. 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 hundle of both, the Thunderdome.
0:05.8	On this overreaction Monday, June 2nd, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.6	Sports are awesome, especially here in Indianapolis, Indiana,
0:18.2	as the Indiana Pacers have made it to the NBA finals for the first
0:23.0	time since the year 2000. The city is alive and obviously in game six, whenever the Pacers
0:29.4	beat the hell out of the New York Knicks. They punched their ticket to the NBA finals to take
0:34.1	on a very dominant Oklahoma City Thunder team that'll begin on Thursday night at
0:41.3	830 Eastern on ABC. It'll be ESPN broadcast throughout the entirety of the NBA finals as
0:47.7	Tyrese Halliburton and the Larry Bird trophy winner, the MVP of the Eastern Conference
0:52.8	finals, Pascal C. Aukham, take on Shea, Jalen,
0:57.1	in a squad of Oklahoma City Thunderboys that are obviously scrappy, gritty, and have a home court
1:03.8	advantage. But don't look now. Indiana is alive. The cities were a buzz after the New York Knicks get sent back to New York
1:14.0	being Eastern Conference finalists. Congrats to the Knicks. Congrats to the Knicks. Had a chance to be
1:19.9	there. It was not sitting courtside. I think those tickets were like 50, 60 grand a pop or something like
1:24.4	that. And I do love the Pacers. Not that much, but I do love the Pacers not that much but I do love the Pacers
1:28.9	up in a suite with the boys watching as it went down and you know as the fourth quarter kind of
1:33.8	unfolded it all got kind of obvious that the Pacers were going to be going to the finals and it's not
1:38.6	just because Tyrese and Pascoe obi Topin is absolutely beloved in this city of Indianapolis. There was numerous O.B.
1:46.2	Toppin chance as he hits his head off the rim every single time he seemingly goes to the rack.
1:50.5	Thomas Bryant, former Indiana Hoosier, was with the Lakers. Now he's back with the Pacers.
1:55.5	He dropped a couple threes to place one apeshit. Tyrese Halliburton turned it on in the fourth quarter.
2:00.5	Pascal Seacom is damn near unguardable. He's so fast one ap shit. Tyrese Halliburton turned it on in the fourth quarter. Pascal
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