PMS 2.0 1366 - NBA Finals Game 7 Recap, Kendrick Perkins, Shams Charania, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys recap last night’s NBA Finals Game 7 that saw the Oklahoma City Thunder finally put away the Pacers to win their first title in OKC, as well as the heartbreaking fallout from Tyrese Haliburton rupturing his achilles tendon in the first quarter. Joining the progrum to chat about the series as a whole and how impressed he was with both sides as well as some of the chatter about the offseason is NBA Champion, 15 year NBA veteran, and ESPN NBA analyst, Kendrick Perkins. Later, ESPN Senior NBA Insider, Shams Charania joins the show to chat about what’s next for Tyrese Haliburton as he prepares for surgery on his achilles, the Kevin Durant trade to Houston, why he thinks there is going to be a lot of movement in the NBA Draft. 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 Humbleyenne Bo, the Thunderdome.
0:05.5	On this championship overreaction Monday, June 23rd, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.2	Sports!
0:15.7	Had a championship moment last night as the Oklahoma City Thunder win their first ever NBA
0:21.4	championship.
0:22.6	SGA cracks in history books even more being the point score king of the NBA, the MVP,
0:31.8	the Western Conference Finals MVP and the finals MVP, SGA, J. Dobb, Chad Holmgren, and crew.
0:40.3	Not to mention Paizano Caruso, who started going bananas on a few different occasions out of nowhere.
0:46.3	Coach Daggs over there, and I do believe they say Nalt at the end of his name.
0:51.3	Got a chance to listen to him, chit-chat with SVP.
0:57.9	After the game last night, he has just, I mean, he's just right here.
0:58.2	Yep.
0:59.0	He was just right here.
1:01.2	You just won a title for the first time in your program's history.
1:02.2	You're right here, right here.
1:03.9	How about all the guys you still have back?
1:05.4	You don't really have a lot of contract dispute.
1:11.5	Seems like this team's going to be fully back next year, you kind of got a Florida Panthers thing going right now at this point. Even if you were to add some, just right here.
1:12.1	How you doing?
1:12.6	Keep it moving.
1:17.3	They're fan base, spectacular, all the way in from beginning to end.
1:20.7	And whenever you start talking about the history books, there's numerous things that they were able to accomplish this season that will be talked about forever.
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