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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1536 - Utah Jazz/Mammoth Owner Ryan Smith, Kendrick Perkins, Mike Trout, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys chat about tonight’s play-in games in the NBA and the playoffs as a whole, as well as the NHL playoffs starting, MLB continuing to heat up, the 2026 NFL Draft being just a few days away, and a little surprise from WWE World ahead of WrestleMania 42 this weekend. They’re also joined by several great guests including Utah Jazz/Mammoth owner Ryan Smith; 15 year NBA veteran, NBA Champion, and now ESPN NBA analyst, Kendrick Perkins; and 3x AL MVP, 11x All-Star, 9x Silver Slugger, Center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels, Mike Trout. 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, Enjoy WrestleMania weekend, we’ll 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 Thunderdome.

0:05.6

On this WrestleMania Eve, Feel Good Friday, April 17, 2026.

0:09.9

This program begins now.

0:13.4

Sport!

0:13.8

Are fantastic, and obviously we have NBA playing games tonight to decide two teams

0:20.2

that are going to be able to punch their ticket

0:22.0

into the playoffs. Who can potentially chase immortality on this massive weekend? Will LaMello

0:28.2

Ball and the Charlotte Hornets who had a absolute thriller over the Miami Heat in the first

0:34.1

round of the play-in game tournament? Take on the Orlando Magic and I'll tell you what, don't want to give any spoilers away, but on this particular Friday, as the past couple Fridays, we'll be doing the, oh, no, segment. Nice. That Orlando Magic team is in the segment. Yeah. Nobody's happy with how they're playing, but they still have a chance to potentially make the playoffs. And then Steph Curry back back from injury late in the season, alongside Draymond Green, who's pickpocket in and going crazy as if it was like 2015 all over again. Draymond and Steph Curry going crazy, taking on the Phoenix Suns in an Isbia-owned team that says he wants it to be like Coach Izzo up there in Michigan State. Devin Booker's an animal, obviously. They've had a lot of transition, a lot of change. Maybe they make it into the playoffs. But Steph Curry in a play-in-in-type situation, I like that for him. He is seeing a big hoop right now. And he's also talking his shit. We got the shoulder shimmy first game back from injury. And then in the last game against the Clippers, he hits a game winner.

1:31.1

Ah, step back, round about, in the crowd. Almost rolls his ankle. Good potential. He heard himself. Who knows somebody punched him in there. He's asking the Clippers phase. Is that echo in? I did that go in? I can kind of hear it. I kind of feel that it went. Out of the

1:45.7

hand, it felt good. But is that one in or is that not in? That's what this dude has obviously

1:50.4

done to basketball. And anytime we get a glimpse of what he did to hoops forever at its highest

1:55.4

form and he's back, maybe Golden State goes crazy. Whoa. Now everybody in the West has obviously knows that the Oklahoma City Thunder exist.

2:04.0

And everybody understands that Joker's still over there in Denver.

2:07.4

And LeBron James, he's 41.

2:11.2

That's right.

2:11.8

And then in the East, because the Pacers are not in the playoffs or the playouts.

2:16.7

And Detroit is obviously the number one scene waiting on the Hornets potentially if they're able to get a win tonight over Orlando for a rivalry matchup in the first round of the NBA playoffs. But we got to get the Celtics are always. Yeah. We got to remember the Celtics exist. That's right. And then the Knicks, they're saying we're winning this year. We were built to win this year.

2:35.0

I heard people on TV who know this a lot better than I am with sources connected and everything. They're like, Knicks are actually built to go on a run right now. It's like, the Knicks are going to be back. And I forgot last year, they made all the way to finals, fired their coach. That's right. Expectations are they got to win at all. NBA playoffs should be spectacular. We'll have Kendrick Perkins joining us in about 20 minutes or 30 minutes or so to chitch out about his opinions on the playoffs, the teams, and also the awards that he votes for. Yeah, right. Need it. People are not happy with him. No, they're pissed. Big Perk, baby. And that's Big Perk basketball. Exactly. He don't care. That really is Big Perk basketball.

3:08.8

He'll got carry on. That's kind of his thing. We're excited to get a chance to catch up with him again. There was a time not too long ago where Perk was going to potentially be in a Thunderdome once a week. That's right. That got shut down before it really even got started. It was incredible. We enjoy Big Perk.

3:24.5

Now, some of the things Big Perk says

3:26.3

obviously get a lot of people flustered. before it really even got started it was incredible we we enjoy big perk now some of the things big

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