Pardon My Take
Alex Caruso From The OKC Thunder, Comedian Ray Romano, Indiana Pacers Are In The NBA Finals + National Sports Podcast News
Mon, 2 Jun 2025
The Indiana Pacers are on to the Final and we talk about their big win Saturday night, how they got here and where the Knicks go from here. Jerry O'Connell calls Hank randomly and its the death of the Bing Bong (00:00:00-00:41:55). National Sports podcast and Scottie Scheffler is unstoppable and we talk some baseball (00:41:55-00:51:09). Who's back of the week including Taylor Swift and Rebecca Romijn (00:51:09-01:11:15). Alex Caruso joins the show to talk about the Thunder's run to the Finals, what it will be like to play in front of fans for a Finals, playing relentless defense, Jokic and tons more (01:11:15-01:41:08). Ray Romano joins the show to talk about upcoming golf tournament in Tahoe, sports fandom, and his kids growing up (01:41:08-02:12:19). We finish with lottery ball (02:12:19-02:18:02).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What happened in the NBA Finals?
Hey Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's Pardon My Take, we have an NBA Finals set. We also have our good friend Alex Crusoe from the Oklahoma City Thunder getting ready for the NBA Finals. We also are going to talk to our good friend Ray Romano ahead of our chill week in Tahoe.
He'll be competing, talking about his golf game, comedy, great interview. We're going to talk about the weekend sports that were. We got a little national sports podcast stuff to hit. Hot seat, or sorry, who's back of the week. Got a little screwed up there.
Well, last week, Max sprung the hot seat cool throne Friday on us. Well, no, I knew he told us that before. Yeah, but then he sprung it on us.
He sprung it on us after.
Chapter 2: Who is Alex Caruso and why is he relevant?
He did tell us that before. And be like, hey, just so you guys know, I sold a hot seat cool throne.
Chapter 3: What did Ray Romano discuss on the podcast?
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Chapter 4: How did the Indiana Pacers get to the NBA Finals?
It's just a game.
It's just a game. In Indiana, it's life. In 49 states, it's just basketball. Congrats, though, to the Indiana Pacers. Incredible season, incredible run through the playoffs. They are so much fun to watch, and they take down the Knicks. Let's glaze on the Pacers, though, before we talk about the Knicks.
Okay. I can blaze him. Pascal Siakam, well-deserved series MVP.
Right. It was obviously people were talking about the moment where Tyrese Halliburton thought he had won the Eastern Conference final MVP. Now, PFT, you and I, I think, are in lockstep with this. We've always said that the MVP awards in these series don't mean anything. Tyrese Halliburton is the best player on that team. He deserves respect for that. Anyone who says differently is like, Silly.
That's the beauty of NBA basketball and the sport of basketball overall is it's about team. Right. And there's no I in team. There's no MVP in team.
Right. And you're like, that's Tyrese Halliburton's team. You would never say, oh, whose team is it? I mean, obviously, just because he won an MVP for a series past. Well, Siakamu is great. Tyrese is a straw that stirs the drink. Correct.
He is. I mean, without Tyrese, none of this works. The instant baskets after a made layup, those don't happen without him out letting the ball down the court. He is the most important player, I think, on the team. Everyone would agree to that. MVP, who cares? Who cares? You get the Larry Bird trophy. Yeah. Okay, very cool. Who cares?
That is cool, but people remember the team accolades, not the individual awards.
Right, you agree with that. Yeah, in the finals, I think people tend to remember the individual accolades. That's a little bit different.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Pacers vs. Thunder matchup?
Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on Scotty Scheffler and baseball?
And Rick Carlisle needs some respect. Give Rick Carlisle respect because the man is a great coach. NBA champion, Rick Carlisle.
People forget that. And Paul George needs some respect. We alluded to it last week, but these are the Paul George finals. Paul George was traded for, I think it was Sabonis and Oladipo, and then they became Tyrese Halliburton. I think also some draft picks that I think Shepard was one of them. And then also Paul George was traded from OKC that became SGA. It's a Paul George fight.
But I don't want to look too much ahead to the finals and be like, oh, I think this is going to happen because there's a lot of that discourse going on out there right now. I just feel good for the Pacers. I feel good for the Pacers. They're a great team. I'm excited for the matchup.
I know that it was a great matchup between the Pacers and the Knicks and for the Pacers in terms of the style of basketball that each one excels at. It was as good as you could get for them. They were great in the postseason. Congrats to the city of Indianapolis. Congrats to Mr. Ursa. He gets the assist on that game one.
Dan Dockage.
Dan Dockage. Caitlin Clark in the audience. This is really a Caitlin Clark championship right here.
Yeah. The stat? The stat?
I don't know. You look like you're about to give a take.
Well, no. I did some advanced research for the Pacers. Again, we're not going to do our finals preview with Rosillo, but the Indiana Pacers are 7-0 when Kaitlin Clark is in attendance.
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Chapter 7: What is the controversy around Taylor Swift's music?
Now, the first two games in Indiana, she has no conflicts. Game six... They have a road game, the Fever against the Valkyries. Okay. Do you know where the Valkyries are from? The Valks. The Valks are from... I'm not taking credit for knowing where the Valkyries are.
New Mexico. No. No.
The Valkyries.
Where in the WNBA? Sweden.
The Valkyries are Golden State's team. Okay. So they also have a game. I believe it's game six is June 19th is schedule. The Valkyries are playing the fever. That could be that could swing this. I mean, if she's there on game three and four, the Pacers are going to win. She has to go to every game, right?
When she doesn't have a conflict.
and she doesn't like i looked at it she she plays i think the night before game three uh and then the next game's a home game and then it's the same thing like the game four is uh the pacers play i think friday night and the fever play saturday so she'll be there for those two i don't know what she's gonna do with this this problem with the valkyries i don't know it's a valkyries problem it's gonna get there i don't you don't think it's gonna get to sit but no i how do the math hank
Caitlin Clark attends game three and four. It's guaranteed to go at least six.
But the Valkyries. We need somebody. We need somebody in the media to step up and be like, I believe in the Pacers.
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Chapter 8: How did the Knicks perform this season?
antagonize an awesome wrestling yeah literally in the wwe yeah like he he's like he might be number one guy that you'd want to hand a mic to in a live sporting event and just let him talk and for anyone to be upset about that is insane yeah especially new york people ben stiller
His tweet was crazy. New York would never do this.
It's very funny how there's so many comedians that don't actually have a sense of humor.
Like screaming at Reggie Miller last year.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, the comedians without a sense of humor. But also, you know what? And I'm not defending Ben Stiller, but this is also like sports fandom is the great equalizer. Because you just like no matter what, you could be the funniest guy in the world. You could be the I can go with every joke. If your team loses, you just act like a little bitch for 24 hours.
That's just what you do. I can't believe Dom Rickles told me to take his wife.
That's not funny.
That's not funny, Dom.
But it really is. It just makes everyone a little bitch for 24 hours, which is you got to just kind of let it go.
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