Pardon My Take
Rachel Nichols, Celtics Win Big, Pacers And Wolves Go Up, Derek Carr Retires, NHL Playoffs, Max Is Back And Jordon Of The Week
Mon, 12 May 2025
Max and the Celtics are back (00:00:00-00:21:02). We talk about the weekend in playoffs including the Warriors being a bummer without Steph, the Thunder and Nuggets playing horrendous basketball on Sunday, the Pacers blowout (00:21:02-00:43:52). We talk some hockey and PFT has a must win tag on Monday night and we had an insane buzzer beater in Edmonton (00:43:52-00:54:51). NFL News including schedule release week and Derek Carr retires (00:54:51-01:08:16). Who's back of the week including Theranos and the Rockies fire Bud Black because their owners suck (01:08:16-01:22:16). Rachel Nichols joins the show to talk NBA playoffs, where Giannis will play next year, Lebron paycut, MVP and more (01:22:16-02:00:49). We finish with Jordon of the week with recent new news about her and Bill Belichick and Max is back and gives us gifts from Hawaii (02:00:49-02:24:00).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 is the latest on the Celtics and NBA playoffs?
Mr. Big Cat, decider of aura for basketball players.
No, safety first. That's facts. If you're going to troll somebody. I am.
You wear a black hoodie and the same pair of shoes.
You wear the same shit every day, too. You win one game. Yeah, you do. You wear the same shit every day, too. We all wear the same shit. but I'm not deciding who has or who doesn't. Literally, this room is just PFT dresses like a fifth grader, and then everyone else wears a hoodie and joggers. That's it. That's the entire fashion of part of my day.
I mean, today I'm wearing a hoodie and basically joggers.
That was crazy.
You dress the same as me? But I don't sit here and decide how Jason Tatum, the fucking NBA superstar, should be dressing. Well, first of all, all I said was they were fully laced up.
I was explaining the situation.
If I was Jason Tatum, I would have loosely laced my Tims.
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Chapter 2: How are the Timberwolves and Warriors performing without Steph Curry?
Yeah. Wait, so these are the Stat Hole Sports? He has all these numbers up here?
He sent me two things. One of them is just like overall, and then the other one is actually bizarre. It's like their fourth quarter numbers.
Better at offense and better defense.
Got it. Wrong defense. It's better to have a lower number.
Okay, Max, you know what any of these numbers are that we're looking at?
Yeah, I don't know.
One is 110.2 to 108.3. What goes into player rating?
Yeah, I need to know. I don't know. What goes into war? Some guns.
We didn't bring up war.
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Chapter 3: What happened in the Nuggets vs. Thunder playoff series?
All right, let's talk about Timberwolves Warriors because Steph is still not playing, and the Warriors are very difficult to watch.
Yeah, very, very tough watch without them.
They are very difficult. They were leading at half without making a three. I mean, credit to Jimmy Butler and Kaminga for keeping this game close, but this game was Julius Randle. Julius Randle has been so good. He's their most consistent player. Anthony Edwards, I know, I think he had 36th. and Anthony Edwards obviously has a higher ceiling and all that stuff.
Julius Reynolds in these playoffs has been Mr. Consistency, and it's crazy to watch him make the right pass instead of doing his old school spin move where he spins to no one, being all over the boards. He's not forcing it. He's letting the game come to him, and it's cool to watch a guy find a good spot.
It's probably going to piss off Knicks fans to watch this, but he is Mr. Consistency, and he was triple-double in this game.
Yeah, so actually Anthony Edwards gets better the better Julius Randle gets too. Yeah. It's like a force multiplier because as dangerous as Edwards is when he's dribbling the ball and he's attacking, he's about to just dunk through everybody. He's also that dangerous when he's moving without the ball if he has somebody that can get it to him in the right place. Yep.
And that's Julius Randle right now, who's softening up, just bearing his shoulders into people's solar plexus, backing him down, and then finding Anthony Edwards cutting. They are fun to watch when they do that. And credit to the Golden State Warriors because they played some good defense.
They're really good defensively.
they mucked it up they they have to get like real dirty and chippy and nasty with it which they did in the first half and then it was just too much at the end they couldn't get a shot when they needed a shot and the highlight of the fourth quarter was a guy in the stands that looked very similar to mike dunleavy making out with a woman as jimmy butler was on camera yes i don't think that was actually him no but it's fun to pretend that it was i agree also the highlight of this game was draymond green knowing the spread and telling his guys to cover the spread
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Chapter 4: Why did the Pacers dominate the Cavaliers and what does it mean?
And also Michael Porter Jr. is playing with an entire ice pack on his shoulder. Yeah. At all times.
One arm just not working yet.
Yeah. But so Friday night, the Nuggets have a huge win. It's like, all right, if they can somehow win on Sunday, this series could be over. And this game was... Horrific to watch. The Nuggets scored eight points in the first quarter. The teams were combined one for 32 shooting at one point from three point to start the game.
It felt like the Nuggets had this game, or they at least were going to have a chance to win this game and get to that pressure point of like, hey, we're the team that's won a championship. And Jokic missing those two free throws when it was 84-80. Jokic has not been that good. He looks like he's hurt. Well, they're also beating the fuck out of him.
The way he runs, it looks like he is in so much pain.
That's kind of always how he looks like he runs.
I know, but he's extra kind of slow.
I think today it stood out. Because like Big Cat was saying, the fact that the Nuggets have all the experience and the Thunder is so young, that's kind of why the Nuggets were able to win on Friday night. I think that's why the Thunder were able to win today after like 35 hours off. Yeah.
the thunder just bounced back and the oldest guy in the thunder is alex caruso and the uh the nuggets were they looked like they didn't have any legs at all in the first quarter i and that now they did come back to a point where they could have i think taken the lead on this shot if not tied it where russ had a wide open three and just airmailed it that was shot
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Chapter 5: What are the current NHL playoff storylines and key player performances?
70-29 is big. Because if you have a 2 and a 7, that's crazy. 60-19? Yeah.
60-19, that's not an NBA basketball game. That's SEC football. No, I was going to say that's a high school girls basketball, the first round of the tournament, state tournament. The best team plays the worst team in 60-19.
Also, the NCAA women's tournament. Yeah. Like UConn against, I don't know, Norfolk State. Yeah. UConn against Kennesaw.
Yeah, I like that Kennesaw pull. I was on the tip of my tongue. Listen, I'm not going to say this series is over because I do think the Cavs are going to win the next game, and then there's a little bit more pressure. But Charles Barkley thinks this series is over because he said, I'll see you all in Indy next week. Say no more. Get the steak ready. Well done, Filet Mignon. Okay. Okay.
That is so disgusting. That is so disgusting. Also, I think he said filet mignon.
That's also, if you're going to say well done on any kind of steak, listen, I've never wanted to judge somebody based on how they ordered a steak or what it is and it's not a temperature. You would never do that. Well done plus. Yeah. Well done filet mignon. That is quite literally a hockey puck.
Yeah. He loves hockey.
He does. He does love hockey. Good point. I mean, I do think the Pacers are going to win this. I think they're better than the Cavs. I just think that the Cavs are going to win game five.
So there'll be a little bit of... Is Donovan Mitchell okay? Oh, yeah. Did he come back in? He hurt himself at halftime. Walking.
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Chapter 6: What are the key NFL news updates including Derek Carr's retirement?
PFT. Yeah. Are you in trouble? I think we might be in trouble. I might also wake up. Yeah.
I was checking one thing. I was looking at the scores.
We were talking on Thursday night. Before we recorded, because you guys were out, so it was just me and PFT and memes on the Zoom, and I was just like, it's crazy that Hank just doesn't, because he doesn't watch hockey, he can't just reverse everything that PFT trolls Hank with.
He's going through. I watched all these games. But you know he's going through. He's down 2-1. The difference between me and PFT is I like PFT, and I root for his team. I want the Capitals to do well.
Do you? Yeah. Okay, so what do you think we have to do, Hank, to turn the series around?
Well, I don't know hockey. You need to score more goals. You need OB to fucking get some Russian gas in them and fire the boys up.
The Hurricanes are annoying. They're so annoying. They're so annoying. So annoying. And I say that as an agape guy. And listen, yeah, we're both big time agape guys on this podcast. But they're annoying, but I mean that. And it's almost like a compliment because they're a good team. Oh, yeah. Winning annoying is a good thing. You want... Yeah.
your opponents to to say that you're annoying yeah uh ovi has not played that great this series he had a couple solid looks in the first period but there is like it's crept into my head i'm having some dark thoughts i'm trying to pull myself out of but i go through this with all of my teams it doesn't matter i i always expect the worst to happen uh ovi seems like he he's hit that wall at the end of the season because he's so fucking old
We saw it last year in the playoffs against the Rangers, and the same type of energy level, body language is what I'm seeing from Ovi. He needs to rush some gas. Hank's right.
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Chapter 7: What can we expect from the NFL schedule release week?
That's a huge mistake.
This is a must win. Monday is a must win. And we're one and one in must win games this postseason. So it's 50-50. It's a must win. If you don't win on Monday, Thursday becomes a can't lose? Thursday becomes a must not even. You can't lose. Yeah. Must not entertain the thought of losing.
Yeah.
Because what I'm worried about now is going to the game on Thursday and then having the season closed out of my face. Right. Oh, no. Yeah, it'd be tough. But yeah, Hank, any other advice? Because you're right on the money when you say that we need some Russian gas. Send Ovi all the Russian gas because he needs it.
And it's Carolina. We need Leafs caps. We do need Leafs caps. We can't have Carolina fucking Florida.
No. No, we can't. They shoot so much. Because then I just don't.
Then you got nothing. You lose me.
Yeah. And right now you're locked in. You lose Henry Lockwood. Jerry Bettman, we cannot lose Hank. You lose Henry Lockwood. Hank is the face of the casual hockey fan. And the ratings will go down the toilet.
We cannot lose Hank. We also had a buzzer beater on Saturday night. It was sick. Insane. Insane. Do we want to debate how it could actually be a buzzer beater with time still on the clock? I was joking. We don't. We don't. There was 0.4 seconds left on the clock. I don't know what Skinner was doing in that moment.
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