PMS 2.0 1544 - Feel Good Friday with Brett Veach, Wonderful "Champ" Monds IV Makes His College Commitment, Chris Paul, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 159 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk and the boys recap last night’s NHL Playoff and NBA Playoff action, preview tonight’s playoff matchups, chat about Kirby Smart’s comments about the Big 10 compared to the SEC, preview the Kentucky Derby this weekend, and discuss everything else in the sports world. They are joined several incredible guests including 3x Super Bowl Champion, GM of the Kansas City Chiefs, Brett Veach, 4 star Quarterback from Vero Beach High School Wonder “Champ” Monds IV makes his college commitment; and 21 year NBA veteran, 12x All-Star, 11x All-NBA, 9x NBA All-Defense, second all time in career assists, future Hall of Famer, Chris Paul to chat about his biggest takeaway’s from the NBA playoffs thus far and looking ahead to tonight, 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, enjoy the Kentucky Derby, have the greatest weekend of all time. 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 Humbley Bo, the Thunderdome.
0:05.7	On this Feel Good Friday, May 1st, 2026, this sports program begins now.
0:13.5	Sports are the absolute greatest, and we can't thank you enough for allowing us to talk about them every single day.
0:18.9	The NBA playoffs are happening, and ass beating occurred last night in Atlanta.
0:23.6	Holy hell.
0:25.6	An absolute drumming of the Atlanta Hawks right there in the front of, I believe, T.I.'s face.
0:33.6	Wow.
0:34.6	I believe a couple chains, two chains was maybe down in there in the building. I know they were trying to swag surf towards the end and I believe a couple chains two chains was maybe down in there in the building
0:38.6	I know they were trying to swag surf towards the end and I believe they were
0:41.9	doing yeah we got that way and they're kicking our and we're down bad and
0:53.1	and even the guys who created a banger that will stand the test of time,
0:59.1	that song will hit forever.
1:01.3	Every time.
1:02.4	In Atlanta on that particular night,
1:04.5	as they were getting knocked out of the NBA playoffs,
1:06.7	finding out that their C finance guy was robbing them.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:11.6	Finding out on that day.
1:13.1	Sure.
1:13.3	And then they would have at one point, they'd be on the wrong end of a 39 to 4 run.
1:21.4	This is an elimination game in the NBA playoffs.
1:25.4	A 71 to 16 run occurred. Wow. Nicks, blow it out the Hawks. Tough day to be a Hawks fan. Tough day to be a Hawks owner, which we happen to know one of them. Steve, we're pulling for you down there. That's certainly a tough way to end the season. I don't know how the offseason is going to have any way looking up.
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