Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show Western Conference play in postgame.

I'm Dave DeFore.

Here with Seth Part Now in Modiciel.

So ostensibly, guys, this is actually a special episode of NERder, she wrote.

We are coming to you guys live with our instant reaction. Post game, we just finished Warriors

Kings. And we're going to start there. The Kings, man, they get the monkey off their back with a 118 to 94 win in an elimination game against the Golden State Warriors.

And Mo, I'm going to start with you because, like, we did this series on the ding last year.

We kind of talked about the big brother, little brother relationship between these two teams.

There was no way Sacramento was making the playoffs without having to go through the Golden State Warriors.

No, I mean, they had to.

I think that's the more important thing is like, this is them beating their big brothers finally.

And in the way that they did it was what was super impressive.

Like granted, seven game series very different than just one game.

But in this one game, Keegan Murray got rid of some demons.

Demontasabonis exercised some demons.

You know, Fox was great in the series.

Fox was great tonight.

And then other guys that didn't play in that series, Kean Ellis, who was freaking phenomenal.

Tonight, like, all of those guys lifted up, Harrison Barnes hit some big shots, you know,

and for the, I mean, like, this is one of those, this was a game where start to finish, like, I picked

the Warriors to win this game.

What I saw how aggressive the Kings came out to start, I was like, oh.

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