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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1547 - Ian Rapoport, Kendrick Perkins, Cameron Young, Shams Charania, Gary Bettman, Pete Crow-Armstrong

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.919.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk and the boys cover the latest in the NBA and NHL playoffs, golf, and the NFL. At the top of the show, we are joined by ESPN’s newest NFL Insider Ian Rapoport to discuss the news that the NFL and the NFL Referees Association are close to a new deal, with a vote on ratification set for Thursday Night, Stefon Diggs acquittal, Aaron Rodgers future, and more. After Rapsheet, we are joined by NBA Champion, 15 year NBA veteran, Kendrick Perkins joins us to recap the Pistons Game 1 win, everybody complaining about SGA foul baiting, how long LeBron could keep playing, why he likes the Timberwolves to beat the Spurs in their series, and more. After Kendrick, winner of the Cadillac Championship & reigning Players Champion Cameron Young stops by to take us into his recent run of success, the reasons why he called a one stroke penalty on himself, his thoughts on the LIV players returning to the PGA, and more. To start the second hour we are joined by ESPN’s NBA Insider Shams Charania to cover the breaking news that Joel Embiid will be out tonight as the 76ers take on the Knicks in Game 2. After Shams, we are joined by the NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to talk about the amazing viewership of the NHL playoffs so far, what goes into being an NHL referee, the NHL Draft Lottery last night, the quality of play on the ice, and more. To wrap things up we are joined by MLB All-Star, Cubs Centerfielder, Pete Crow-Armstrong, who tells us about the Cubs 7 game win-streak, the hot start to the season for the entire NL Central, how he feels when he’s hitting the ball well, 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 will be back tomorrow LIVE from the ThunderDome. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

people and welcome to our humble abode the thunderdown on this big sports wednesday may 6th

0:07.5

2026 this program begins now sports are the greatest and playoffs are happening every single night

0:15.8

in the NBA and the NHL and keeping us wildly entertained and we can't think the athletes out there

0:20.5

doing it enough

0:21.4

for everything that they're putting on the line. Even some guys, okay, Mr. Vanderbilt for the Lakers

0:27.3

last night, four years on the team, mostly a defensive specialist in a game one against

0:32.2

Oklahoma City in Oklahoma City getting her asses beat, actually dislocates his pinky so much that it pops out of his

0:38.8

skin and the Oklahoma City team sees it and get immediately disgusted what do you got go oh geez

0:44.6

we got all all the boys the lads in the back saying no that's disgusting now we're here and obviously

0:50.4

that he's going to have to get that stitched up obviously put the bone back in skin. But that's possible at any time that any of these players' injuries, obviously can be much worse than just a pinky popping out of their skin. But that is certainly something that is very gruesome and disgusting. So we appreciate what all these guys are going through every single night for us to be entertained in the sports world. The NHL swinging a hot bat. And guess what the hottest bat of the mall might be in Colorado over there. This mile high team in the avalanche, they're bigger, stronger, tougher, and better you. I mean, that's just what they are. Coming into the Stanley Cup playoffs, everybody that knew hockey, which is obviously not who we are claiming to be the super duper hockey experts, but everybody that is deemed hockey experts go, I mean, that's just tick-tac

1:29.2

toll right there in the play.

1:30.2

That's against a very good Minnesota wild team. There's basically playing with them, playing with them. That's goal, that's goal. Everybody's a goal. McKinnon's killing people and also scoring goals. These team coming into the playoffs is being talked about as baby being one of the best in the history of hockey with how great they are with the run that they can go on.

1:44.7

And they're proven to do just that.

1:46.1

They are pounding teams.

1:47.4

And it's not just scoring. being one of the best in the history of hockey with how great they are with the run that they can go on

1:44.4

and they're proven to do just that they are pounding teams and it's not just scoring more goals height

1:49.2

it's not just scoring more goals it's beating the shit out here's queen hughes obviously american

1:53.7

legend we appreciate him as mckinan star of the colorado avalanche obviously superstar queen hugh's

1:59.2

lost an edge a little bit there but let's look at this one here.

2:02.8

Night Night.

2:03.6

That's down 5-2, the Minnesota Wild Guy, getting bodied off the thing by the star of the

2:09.6

other team late in the game.

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