Pardon My Take
Dwyane Wade In Studio, Pacers Insane Comeback At MSG, The Thunder Are A Wagon, Remembering Jim Irsay + Fyre Fest With Oldie
Fri, 23 May 2025
The thunder are awesome and SGA wins MVP and goes up 2-0 on the Wolves (00:00:00-00:15:32). The Pacers with an all time comeback in MSG as Nesmith goes God mode (00:15:32-00:35:05). We remember Jim Irsay after his passing Wednesday (00:35:05-00:41:25). We talk some hockey playoffs and the Tush Push survives another year (00:41:25-00:56:32). Dwyane Wade joins the show in studio to talk about his career, playing with Shaq, playing with Lebron, fake stories, his statue and tons more (00:56:32-02:12:08). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week with Oldie (02:12:08-02:43:09).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 are the highlights of the Thunder's playoff performance?
hey pardon my take listeners you can find every episode on apple podcast spotify or youtube prime members can listen ad free on amazon music on today's part of my take we have three-time nba champion duane wade in studio awesome interview with d wade really really fun to talk to him we're gonna talk some playoffs The Thunder are a wagon. The Panthers are a wagon.
The Pacers and Knicks played one of the most exciting playoff games maybe ever. We'll talk to memes about that. RIP Jim Irsay. We're going to talk about that. The Tush Push doesn't get banned. And then we are going to finish up with Firefest with our good friend Oldie who is back in the booth smelling bad. So great Friday show going for you to get into the long weekend.
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Chapter 2: How did the Pacers stage their incredible comeback at MSG?
That happened thanks to Shams for spoiling it.
Bullshit that they announced it when the two MVPs were in the playoff series prior.
Do you think that they should have done it when it was like last year?
He's saying they should have done it during that. Yeah, I think there was a famous one. I think it might have been. Dirk Nowitzki. No, that was after he got bounced. Dirk got it in the second round after they got bounced by the Warriors. I want to say it was like a David Robinson Hakeem. They announced it during the actual series. But yeah, I agree with you.
They should have done it before game seven. Yeah, they should have. Yeah.
Yeah, it would have been sick. This was a great game by SGA. There's no doubt about it. I still get pissed off when he embellishes. I think the Timberwolves are at their wit's end with it, too.
Yeah, there was a little bit of that tonight, for sure.
But he also, if you take that aside, he played a great game tonight.
Yeah, no, he's awesome. He had 38 points. He was dominant in, I mean, the first half, he missed like two or three shots. He's really goddamn good. And I wonder, the question that I have for you guys, is Paul George an all-time Oklahoma City Thunder player? Because, of course, Paul George got them SGA and 1,000 picks. I would say yes. Which I...
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Chapter 3: What legacy did Jim Irsay leave behind?
He said, as a bigger guy, I grew up always wanting to swim with my shirt on. As goofy as I might be and how outrageous my antics might be, deep down I like to promote body positivity and feeling confident in yourself.
If I can take the thing that I'm most uncomfortable with and make that something that can entertain others or be a distraction for free throw shooters, then I took a negative into a positive. I love this guy. Thundor rocks. Thundor is the man. I would like to have him on PMT. You know it's a blowout when Thundor takes the mask off and he just enjoys the rest of the game. My job is done here.
Yeah, I don't know if he did that tonight, but he has done that. I think in the Nuggets blowout that they had in Game 2, I think he just was like, Thundor, my work here is done. And he went back into Clark Kent for the rest of the game. My watch has ended. Yeah, but this guy rocks. I love Thundor.
And it, yeah, I don't even know. I mean, we'll see what happens when they, so we're, obviously it's Memorial Day weekend. So next we will talk to people. There'll be two more games that go on because we'll be back on. We're going to do Tuesday, Friday next week. Hopefully there's still a series.
I think that the Timberwolves are going to figure out how to win one or maybe two at home. I think they'll figure it out. It's game three.
They've got to win game three. It's a must win. I don't know how, but I don't see the Wolves getting swept. Yeah, I mean, you would hope that Nas Reid's got to hit a three eventually. I think he's 0 for 12 in the series. He's got to hit a three. And Julius Randle didn't play in the fourth quarter. He had a bad game, which that is...
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Tush Push in football?
Because he has been incredible all playoffs, even last game when he started, I think he had 20 points in the first half. Him having only six points and not playing in the fourth quarter, I don't know if he was injured or anything, but that's bad. That's a bad sign.
I don't think that you can make the case that you might get a friendlier whistle at home because I believe that tonight the foul shooting even favored the Timberwolves.
Yeah, shout out Scott Foster. Playing banged up. Got hit in the nose. Did he have a tampon in his nose? Yeah, he did. He put a tampon in his nose. Love that. Yeah, it was a big one. Did you guys also see... In the second period, right? Yeah, it was the second period. Did you see that Perk was there? Perk's going through some stuff right now.
The picture of Kendrick Perkins standing next to Stephen A. Smith that went viral. Parallax angle. That was tough. Also, Perk is doing some weird stuff where he... It's like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook never got out of the second round until I showed up. Fact. And Kevin Durant quoted and said, you the real MVP. Yeah, I love that. And he also had...
I think it was last week he said he would have locked down Jokic and then they just played footage of like baby Jokic just like fucking him up.
And the Celtics is like, you know, it's a family family team and he's like on the like not allowed in.
Really?
Yeah. Why? Because he was leading the charge against getting rid of Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum a couple years ago. He was doing his job as a journalist.
But what happened was he was at the game and they announced him.
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Chapter 5: What insights did Dwyane Wade share about his career?
Big Perk, yeah.
Big Perk. Men used to cry instead of going to the lane against Big Perk.
Yeah, if he was a boxer from, like, 1915. Yeah. We would be, oh, my God, the best ever. But so, back to the standing ovation. You got a standing ovation. Now, I don't know what the timing was with this. But it was a little weird because they only showed one highlight, and it was just a repeat highlight of different angles of a single donkey hat. That's awesome. I don't know what happened there.
But here, I'll send it to you, Max.
I think you also might have misquoted him a little bit because you didn't say carry the hell on.
Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, Perk, he's going through it right now. But the Thunder, they're better than everyone. I don't really know what to say.
I got a question about the Thunder and their roster. Guy for guy, if you put them up against the Boston Celtics, why would you do that? They're not in the playoffs. Who are we taking here?
The Thunder are still playing, so the Thunder are stacked. Yeah. Top to bottom. Top to bottom.
And what's crazy about the Thunder, and I know that this is getting ahead of ourselves because they haven't won the title. Here's the highlight if you guys want to see it. It's pretty sick. This is Kendrick Perkins and his career at OKC, and that's a dunk. Yeah, hell yeah it is. And then there's the same dunk from a different angle. Uh-huh. That was a good dunk. That was a great dunk.
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Chapter 6: What lessons can we learn from the Fyre Fest experiences?
But I saw that one and I was like, that's just memes being angry that the Pacers won't die. I was in shock. Yeah.
Yeah. The Knicks are just cursed because if OG makes that free throw and then Tyrese steps on the line and gets a two, that's what somebody with good luck gets. Instead, it was like overtime, Ty, you don't get the goaltend. Now you just lose.
Yeah. So how are you? I mean, it's one game. That's the thing is there was a lot of it was a shocking game. Knicks fans were commiserating, which I understand. But it was just one game. You win on Friday night, and it's like, all right, let's go.
Yeah, you win on Friday night, you're back. It's, what, 10.50 right now? Like, this morning, I didn't leave the couch. It was probably the worst loss I've ever seen in my lifetime. But you win game two, you're back.
Yeah, and the Knicks, like, if you want to go positive spin zone, the Knicks were the better basketball team for 56 minutes, 57 minutes. Yeah.
No, no, not 57.
I was doing NFL time. Wow, wow. We just did American Rejects. They played a private concert for us. It was sick. We're going to have the lead singer on the show on Tuesday. They played the better game for 45 minutes.
Yeah, and then Naismith was just touched by God, and then you just couldn't fucking miss. I miss football. I was just going 60s. Football is the absolute best sport in the entire world.
That would be so sick. So, Memes, you stayed on your couch. 60 minutes. You were angry. I stayed on my couch and didn't move. Memes did text the group chat like four times, what time we're recording. Let me know.
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