PMS 2.0 1565 - NBA Finals Preview, Stanley Cup Game 1 Recap, LA Rams GM Les Snead, Heather Dinich, Peter Schrager, PK Subban, Iman Shumpert, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.9 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the Vegas Golden Knights beating the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 to take a 1-0 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals, they preview the NBA Finals, and discuss everything else happening in the sports world including the WCWS, and a couple of aces on the bump tonight in MLB. They are also joined by a litany of great guests including Super Bowl Champion and LA Rams General Manager Les Snead; Heather Dinich live from the senate committee hearings on college sports; ESPN NFL analyst/host Peter Schrager; Olympic Gold Medalist, 13 year NHL veteran and ESPN NHL analyst, PK Subban; and NBA Champion, 10 year NBA veteran, and ESPN NBA analyst, Iman Shumpert. 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 Humble the Bow, the Thunderdome.
0:05.0	On this NBA Finals Wednesday, June 3rd, 2006, this program begins now.
0:13.0	Sports!
0:14.0	Our happening and the NBA Finals go ahead and tip off tonight in San Antonio, and who will get Frost Bitt at the Frost Bank
0:23.2	Center in front of 18,418 plus potentially if they had some standing room only down there in San
0:31.5	Antonio as an alien will face his first NBA finals, pressure cooker.
0:38.3	The entire world will be watching as this new young star who could potentially be crowned
0:43.3	as the league's next king takes the grandest stage for the first time after a grueling battle
0:49.3	with a team that was trying to have a dynasty that could be completely disrupted by this thing from out of space alongside a young crew of absolute dolls.
1:00.0	That love playing for the Spurs organization in front of a rowdy crowd, but what they have come into town is a different animal out in New York City.
1:07.0	Now this team has just been beating everybody's ass.
1:10.0	So much so that they've been able to rest. They've played less amount of games and the amount of days that they've had since the offseason when they're maybe playing more games at Equinox than what they're playing right now. They've been clean sweeping the entire East. And the people from the West say, well, that's the East. Who cares? Yeah. And what Brunson says, and what Big Cat says, and OG says, and Coach Mike Brown, who was brought
1:32.2	in to do just this for the city of New York, they say they're the most dominant full team in
1:37.1	basketball.
1:37.8	And Wembe has no idea what he's about to see.
1:40.6	The best team that has been playing hoops in the entire world has been the New York
1:45.2	Knicks. And tonight we see if that carries into another stratosphere, if that carries into another
1:50.2	world, if that carries into another planet as the NBA Finals tip off on ABC, who's also the home
1:56.9	to the NHL Stanley Cup finals, which happened last night, nine goals.
2:07.9	Nine goals in game one of the Stanley Cup final is the Vegas Golden Knights get a huge win in front of the Caniaks.
2:11.5	Let's go to the toxic table at Boston Connor at Ty Schmidt, Ty.
2:15.4	Three more wins away from hoisting Lord Stanley one more time.
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