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You're tuned in to Heat Check with Trista Crick.

On this episode of the Heat Check, we're recording this Sunday night,

so anything that happens on Monday is not going to be discussed.

So it is the first round of the playoffs, and they are halfway through. Damn, is there a lot popping around the league. And not just some incredible things happening with this Kings and Warriors series. We've got news from all the series so that you're going to be caught up to start the week. My last hit from San Francisco, so let's get straight to it, Nick, and do me a favor

and then drop that same beat.

This should be Rihanna.

Okay.

I am sitting here in my hotel room about a mile from Chase Center.

I am chilling after game four of the Warriors Kings game.

And I have to tell you, that was one of the wildest, most thrilling games that I have seen in a long, long time.

I can't remember an NBA game I've seen in person as good as that one recently.

It was exactly the opposite of game three.

Full of drama, big shots, runs by both teams, surprises everywhere.

My God, that Steph timeout, which we'll get to, I'm sure.

That wasn't a timeout, the Fab Five moment.

You know, our dubs, the champions that they are, they pulled it out in the last second.

Some would say they dodged a bullet. I would say that's just championship DNA

coming back to rear its beautiful head. Now we head back to Sacramento. We are tied to two. The series

is everything that everyone wanted it to be. A dog fight. A dog fight between the team that the national media wants,

the darlings of the national media,

aka the Sacramento Kings,

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