PMS 2.0 1326 - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Aaron Rodgers, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.9 • 18.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Pat, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about last night’s Play-In games in the NBA, all the different happenings in MLB, and everything happening in the sports world as we are on the Road to Wrestlemania before heading to Las Vegas. Joining the show to chat about the NBA Playoffs, the future of NBA and their broadcasts and digital rights, changes to the playoff format, potential expansion, moving to Christmas Eve, and much more. Later, 4x MVP, Super Bowl Champion/MVP, and current free agent, Aaron Rodgers joins the show to clear the air on a lot of the stories floating around about him, and to chat about the ending of his time in New York, plus plans for his future. 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 LIVE from Las Vegas on the Road to Wrestlemania, 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.
0:05.4	On this big program Thursday, April 17, 2025, this sports program starts now.
0:12.9	Sports are happening all around us, and yes, your eyes were not deceiving you.
0:18.3	The toxic table is here at Boston Corner and at Ty Schmitt.
0:21.8	Obviously, we're juiced up to get to Las Vegas for a WrestleMania weekend.
0:25.5	We cannot wait to hit the road and hit the skies to get out to Sin City.
0:30.1	And yes, one half of the hammer.
0:32.8	Cowboys AP Tone is here with a ball cap on.
0:35.5	And yes, what you saw at the end of this desk right here is he
0:40.2	who is a college football national champion a Super Bowl champion a rider cup winner a father of
0:46.3	ten a onesie wearer ladies and gentlemen a j hawk oh oh oh oh j hawk hey hawk hey hawk great to see you brother it's great to be here and Holy shit. AJ Hawk! AJ Hawk! AJ Hawk! A.J. Hawk!
0:55.0	A.J. Hawk!
0:56.0	Great to see you, brother.
0:57.0	It's great to be here in D-Butt's seat.
0:59.0	I feel like I had to wear a onesie to kind of represent.
1:01.0	He told me yesterday, hey, make sure you represent and wear a onesie and look good, so I'm
1:04.0	trying that for D-Butt.
1:05.0	You do look super cool. How about at Big Night Out in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? There was a lot of booze of the state of Ohio.
1:11.6	You were former president of Ohio, AJ Hawk Chan, radiating through that entire building.
1:16.1	Had to feel pretty good to get that love from the people of Pittsburgh.
1:18.4	Yeah, the people were awesome.
1:19.2	I met tons and tons of Pittsburgh people and people from all around the country, I would say.
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