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Welcome to the old man and the three things with JJ Reddick and Tommy Ulter available exclusively on Amazon Music.

All right, first round officially over. We witnessed an all-timeer yesterday from Steph Curry, the Warriors advance. We get the matchup that probably yes, PN and TNT are very excited about.

Yeah, I was going to say certain people to league office are probably.

Just first of all credit to Sacramento for an outstanding season, Mike Brown, Sabona's Fox in particular, just an outstanding season and outstanding playoff run.

This was really a series. I think we all felt from the jump could go either way and I particularly on Fox second most points ever in a playoff series debut.

Only LeBron James has more points in a playoff series debut, but really this came down to Steph and if you'll allow me a couple of minutes here, I talk about the word seco all the time and I think if we did a seco power rankings, I'd have a hard time not putting Steph as number one.

He's an absolute sicko and whether you view Steph Curry as a hero or a villain, it's undoubtedly clear that he is an entertainer first and I think he's the greatest show in basketball.

That's just me as a fan.

I was thinking about this last night in that second half, you had this range of emotion from him. He's just always so in the moment.

So he makes a free throw on a man one after missing two earlier and he starts pumping his arms up sarcastically, right.

Then they show him during a dead ball after he starts to get going and he's smiling, laughing.

And you're like, what is going on in this man's brain? And then a few minutes later, he turns to the crowd after a time out and said, y'all ain't ready for this shit, y'all ain't ready.

And then a couple minutes after that, he lights the beam.

This guy is a sicko and I was thinking about this series in particular where going down to oh coming back to take the series lead three two, putting everything into Friday night,

then having to turn around and play an afternoon games Sunday. And a lot of what I heard was the warriors are exhausted. They're exhausted. They're exhausted.

And we talk all the time, Tommy about defensive rating, offensive rating, effective field goal percentage, true shooting percentage, lineups, matchups, all this stuff.

What you can't quantify is the heart of the champion. You can't quantify leadership or fearlessness and Steph has that in spades. He's one of one.

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