Pardon My Take
Gilbert Arenas, Knicks Up 2-0, Thunder And Wolves Tie The Series, The Pope Is American, Playoff Hockey And Fyre Fest With Some Bonus Mystery Guests
Fri, 9 May 2025
We start with Thursday night games and it turns out Steph Curry is very important to the Warriors as the Wolves tie the series(00:00:00-00:08:20). We talk playoff hockey and the Capitals catch phrase that has some people confused(00:08:20-00:20:24). The Pope is American and from Chicago and its another win for USA(00:20:24-00:24:45). George Pickens on the Cowboys is a match made in heaven(00:24:45-00:38:39). We then kick it back to studio with Hank and talk Celtics Knicks after another 20 point blown lead by the Celtics and a special guest joins us via zoom to rattle Hank more(00:38:39-01:03:13). The Thunder are back on track after destroying the Nuggets Wednesday night(01:03:13-01:13:54). Gilbert Arenas joins the show to talk playoff basketball, his new documentary out on Netflix, his career, card games and the time he walked in on Lamar Odom having sex(01:13:54-02:15:23). We finish with fyre fest and Max joins us from Hawaii to make one of the worst arguments in show history(02:15:23-02:39:53).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: How important is Steph Curry to the Warriors?
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Yeah, he came out there for the shoot-around. He tried to pull the okey-doke on us, but... I think that Draymond knew at the start of the game that Steph, like he wanted to get out of this game. Oh, so bad. It's one of those things where like he knows that Steph's not going to be playing. He knows it's not going to be competitive. So Dray tries to get a tech like right off the bat. Yeah.
And then he gets in the ref's face being like, fuck you, fuck you, asking you to get kicked out because he knows that Steph's not playing.
Yeah, so I have a question for you. So Draymond Green did for the 7,000th time the move where he just flails his arms and legs at an opponent like he's having a full-body spasm. This is a world-class athlete who has incredible body control, but somehow this keeps happening to him. I actually feel bad. He should probably see a doctor about this affliction. But afterwards, you mentioned it.
He yelled at the refs. I think the refs are just scared of Draymond because he gets his technical right away, and then the refs just tune him out for the rest of the game. It's crazy. I think they're just scared to kick him out of a game.
Here's how it went down. He flails his arms, gets the tee that he wanted. Then the ref goes up to him. He's like, I'm not going to kick you out, Draymond. He's like, fucking kick me out. Fuck you. Do it. Fuck you. And the ref's like, sorry, you can keep cussing all you want. You're not getting ejected from this game. You got to play.
Yeah, your punishment is to have to play without Steph Curry in a playoff game. And that was punishment because the Wolves were so much better than the Warriors tonight. There just was no – like the Warriors just couldn't – they didn't have enough offense.
And the Wolves – like even with Anthony Edwards, which there was a second there where I thought we were going to watch Wolves-Warriors with no Anthony Edwards and no Steph Curry, and it was going to be the biggest bummer of all time. But he went out for, was it like a quarter or so? He came back in the second half.
So the Wolves, even without Anthony Edwards, they got all their other guys to step up. Like Julius Randle stepped up big time. Jay McDaniel stepped up. Nas Reed. Nikhil Alexander-Walker had 20. So the Wolves feel like they're back on track a little bit here, especially if Steph's not going to play. Because I don't know how the Warriors win this series without Steph. Actually, I'll just say it.
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Chapter 2: Why is the Celtics vs. Knicks series so intense?
Yeah, he's the absolute best. Just admit you were yelling in my ear.
Just admit you were yelling in my ear. I got to go, guys.
All right, Jerry. Good luck with the car. Thank you so much, Jerry. You're the best. Hank? Yeah? Jerry? Just ringing in your head.
Yeah, listen. Hank's trying to do the math on how he can figure out how to come up on top of this situation. I don't think that's... You're down 2-0. It sucks.
And I don't really care. People hate me, and everyone loves Jerry. I can't fucking stand him when he does that. But it is what it is. He deserves to gloat. I do think the Celtics are going to win this series. Easily. Easily? What does easily mean? Easily is already out. What does easily mean? You can't be easy. When you're looking back on the history books, 4-2 is pretty easy. That's easily?
Is that a whomping? we've put ourselves in a spot where again the one thing that's that is good to know is that we're the better team and missoula loves these spots like he trains this team all season long to be in these spots where your back's up against the wall there's no room for error unfortunately there is no room for error uh they have to win they have to win game three
That sounds like a must-win to me. Also, being in Game 3 with a must-win means that it's not easy. It can't be an easy one.
Well, it's not a must-win. Hank already said you can't do both. Can't lose.
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Chapter 3: What is the impact of playoff hockey on fans?
All right, do you have a Fyre Fest?
Yeah, time zones. Oh, yeah, time zones. How has Hawaii been?
And just walk. You have to walk.
Actually incredible. Let's get a view from my room over here. Breaking. Let's get a room view.
It's so salty. I love it. Oh, that's a pretty nice view, Max. Yeah, it is good.
There's some turtles that go down in that little corner right there. I don't know if you can see my finger. There's some turtles. Every morning I come out and I just go out and look at the turtles for a little bit. Mr. Pears, all of his grandfathers and ancestors. I'm just hanging. They're just hanging out. The vibes are high. People are just coming up.
I wouldn't have even known about Celtics, Nick, unless the people – that are in this resort were just so excited to tell me that the Celtics just keep blowing leads.
Yeah, you texted us last night that you stopped watching the game when they were up 20, and then someone came up to you at the pool and was like, hey, did you see that?
Yeah, I know. I actually didn't believe it. I thought someone was looking at a box score from the game before. I was like, there's no way that this actually happened twice.
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