PMS 2.0 1321 - Shams Charania, Ian Rapoport, Jay Williams, Field Yates LIVE From Colorado's "Showcase," & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Ja Morant getting fined for another gun gesture in game, as well as the electric Lakers vs. Warriors game last night, the Final Four this weekend taking center stage, Geno Smith signing a 2 year $75 million extension with the Raiders, and more Showcase/Pro Day coverage as Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter take center stage today. Joining the progrum to chat about the Ja Morant situation and what might ultimately come of it is ESPN NBA Senior Insider, Shams Charania. Next, Ian Rapoport joins the show for a weekly wrap up to chat about the Geno Smith contract, Jaxson Dart’s draft position, Netflix potentially loading up on more Christmas Day games in the future, James Cook putting his house up for sale in Buffalo and what that might mean, and more. Next, National Champion, National Player of the Year, #2 pick of the 2002 NBA Draft, and current ESPN NBA and NCAA basketball analyst, Jay Williams joins the show to chat about the Final Four and what each team needs to do to win their respective games, as well as everything happening in the NBA right now and his thoughts on all the biggest stories. Later, ESPN NFL analyst and Draft expert, Field Yates joins the show from Colorado’s Showcase to chat about Shedeur’s draft prospects, where he has Travis Hunter going, and where he thinks Jaxson Dart will eventually wind up. 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 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 Thunderdode.
0:06.0	On this feel good Friday, April 4th, 2025, this program begins now.
0:13.0	Sports!
0:14.0	Our wonderful, and we can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this every single day.
0:18.0	There's a lot going on to sports world, including the Final Four tomorrow.
0:22.6	Shout to two SEC teams battling in Auburn and Florida and Houston and Duke. That begins at 609 tomorrow.
0:31.6	We will have Jay Will joining us in the next hour, about 110 or so. He's obviously going to be covering it with
0:38.9	college game day, and obviously he's one of the greatest college basketball players of all
0:42.4	time, especially at Duke. But we won't just talk about the Final Four, which is obviously going to
0:46.3	be electrifying, and we're almost at the crescendo of one shining moment of this particular
0:51.5	March Madness, so we'll certainly have to chitch chat about that. But also, how about the NBA?
0:56.0	Big news in the NBA. We'll have Shams joining us here in about 10 to 15 minutes or so,
1:02.0	because there has been a fine levied by Adam Silver against one of the NBA's young stars.
1:08.0	John Morant has been fined $75,000 for multiple finger gun gestures.
1:14.6	I think the most recent one if you read this is they told him about an hour before the game,
1:19.6	listen, okay, this was the whole thing. Can't be doing it. And then he hits a shot, he can't help
1:25.6	himself. He's like, I'm a sniper, baby. Oh, bu, boom, boom.
1:29.1	You see that?
1:30.1	This is the first quarter.
1:31.2	This is the first quarter of the game.
1:32.6	Probably 20 minutes after they talk to him.
1:35.1	He just, natural instinct, make, Pavlov's dogs.
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