Speaker 1: Lord have mercy Wardell Stephan Curry. If you haven't seen
Speaker 1: Steph's performance in Game seven against the Kinks, and you
Speaker 1: haven't seen the highlights, you should probably just stop this
Speaker 1: podcast right now and go watch it. What we saw,
Speaker 1: what we witnessed was the elevation from legend to god
Speaker 1: to godhood or maybe possibly Goathood, as we will get
Speaker 1: to as well. Steph Curry did things that we've only
Speaker 1: seen in NBA jam and we are going to be
Speaker 1: talking about this performance forever. Fifty years from now, people
Speaker 1: are going to be talking about this Game seven performance.
Speaker 1: So after the embarrassment of Game six where our dubs
Speaker 1: got blown out at the crib in the largest loss
Speaker 1: of the Steve Kerr era, Steph was not taking no
Speaker 1: chances with that whole one team one dream bullshit. No
Speaker 1: is gonna be Steph's show, and that happened from the
Speaker 1: very tip off. If they were gonna lose, it was
Speaker 1: not gonna be because Jordan Poole was looking at Battie's
Speaker 1: court side and was turning the ball over ten times.
Speaker 2: That's just not what was gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And what we got, I think was probably better than his.
Speaker 1: Teammates could have even anticipated the best Game seven performance
Speaker 1: in NBA history. Let me say that again, that was
Speaker 1: the best Game seven performance in the history of the
Speaker 1: NBA in existence. Steph put up a fifty piece against
Speaker 1: probably their best foe since the probably twenty sixteen Calves, Lebron,
Speaker 1: Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and a bunch of those role players.
Speaker 1: It was electricity. Kings led by two at half, but
Speaker 1: you knew what time it was. Steph already had twenty
Speaker 1: in the first half, already had twenty. Fox was struggling
Speaker 1: to get going, and you're like, man, it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time before they break this thing open. It's
Speaker 1: just we are just waiting for the dam to burst.
Speaker 1: And you would think maybe Mike Brown would have made
Speaker 1: some adjustments because he coached against or with Curry for
Speaker 1: eight years during his time coaching the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2: But no, he did not.
Speaker 1: He had nothing up his sleeve to stop Steph Curry
Speaker 1: from doing Steph Curry things. And Steph, even though in
Speaker 1: the second half the Kings knew that they had to
Speaker 1: put more attention and pressure on Curry, you would think, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe second half he like just puts up eighteen or sixteen.
Speaker 3: No, he's actually better.
Speaker 1: In the second half, with everyone scheming and game planning
Speaker 1: to shut him down, he put up thirty. It was
Speaker 1: a better second half than it was in the first half,
Speaker 1: where he just casually put up twenty. The most demonic
Speaker 1: shit that I saw from him. This is what I
Speaker 1: knew it was over.
Speaker 2: Was at the end of the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Warriors are starting to pull away and he had already
Speaker 1: missed for the first time ever in my memory, two
Speaker 1: consecutive free throws, and you're like, oh, God, Like, what's
Speaker 1: stepp up to?
Speaker 2: Is he frustrated?
Speaker 1: He gets to the line again moments later, because that's
Speaker 1: just the kind of night it was. With the Scott
Speaker 1: Foster game, by the way, that was a factor, and
Speaker 1: they panned to his face and he's grinning from ear
Speaker 1: to ear. It was the most diabolical, sick, twisted, sadistic
Speaker 1: smile I have ever seen on anyone's face. It was
Speaker 1: not a normal, I'm happy grin. It's a let me
Speaker 1: make myself happy in the moment and let me show
Speaker 1: these kings I'm coming and this is over for them.
Speaker 1: That's when I knew it was inevitable. He is inevitable.
Speaker 1: There was gonna be no comeback. They were only down seven,
Speaker 1: but it could have been seventy. At that point, it
Speaker 1: was over.
Speaker 3: He shot thirty eight times in thirty.
Speaker 1: Eight minutes, from everywhere, from deep, from the paint, off balance, runners, floaters,
Speaker 1: everything but a dunk.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 1: There was one point five seconds left to go on
Speaker 1: the shot clock. Kings had defended this team very mightily.
Speaker 1: One point five seconds left on the shot clock. They
Speaker 1: inbound the pass, Steph mbounds the pass, immediately gets it
Speaker 1: back contested corner three splash. The only thing that was
Speaker 1: surprising was when Steph would miss. I was actually shocked
Speaker 1: when not every single shot that he let fly did
Speaker 1: not go in. He said this about his sadistic smile
Speaker 1: after the game.
Speaker 4: Attitude can manifest a lot of things. And I told
Speaker 4: Q on the sidelines, I missed for those the last
Speaker 4: two games, not like me, but never over overthink it.
Speaker 4: Just enjoyed the moment. So the smile was intentional on
Speaker 4: trying to just be in the present and as simple
Speaker 4: as it is, is just trying to make a free throw,
Speaker 4: so I like to have fun with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it was more than that.
Speaker 1: And then Draymond, as he said on the podcast today
Speaker 1: because of course he didn't do in game six. Real
Speaker 1: shocking that there was no dream on episode. After Game six,
Speaker 1: which was the most embarrassing loss, he probably would have
Speaker 1: cussed everybody out.
Speaker 2: So I get it.
Speaker 1: It all began with the pregame speech from Steph wardel Creek,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna.
Speaker 5: Lie man game six. That was a gut punch. That night,
Speaker 5: I sent those two guys a text message. I sent
Speaker 5: that text at three am. The first line is, so
Speaker 5: I can't sleep period. Just finish the film again and
Speaker 5: then I go into some other things. Steph text at
Speaker 5: six am like, can't sleep either, but let me deliver
Speaker 5: the message before film say no more. And he delivered
Speaker 5: such a powerful message. Listen, we just got embarrassed last night.
Speaker 5: We got embarrassed on our home floor. An opportunity to
Speaker 5: close out a team, and we never showed up. He said,
Speaker 5: if you getting on this bus, you making a commitment
Speaker 5: to this team. I don't care how many minutes you play.
Speaker 5: I don't care if you don't play a single second.
Speaker 5: I don't care if it's points, rebounds, whatever it is.
Speaker 5: But if you getting on this bus, you are saying
Speaker 5: I am going to do whatever it takes, as far
Speaker 5: as my preparation goes to win this game. We not
Speaker 5: going out like that. We have an opportunity to play
Speaker 5: in game seven. They've rare, they don't come around. Take
Speaker 5: advantage of the moment, embrace the moment. When he delivered
Speaker 5: that speech, I can't say I knew he was going
Speaker 5: to come out and get fifty, but I knew he
Speaker 5: was going to come out and do something incredible, and
Speaker 5: I knew there was no way he was going to
Speaker 5: allow us to lose that game.
Speaker 2: WHOA, I tell you what.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't really know what more you can say
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jordan Poole, suck it up, Hey Jonathan KAMINGA, you're
Speaker 1: not playing anymore. You're not effective enough for us. Don't
Speaker 1: be whining and bitching and moping on the sideline. Do
Speaker 1: not bring the vibes down. This is a championship caliber team.
Speaker 1: We have championship DNA, and you know what, we could
Speaker 1: have traded your ass for somebody with better attitude, but
Speaker 1: you know what, we have faith in you. So sit
Speaker 1: your little ass down there on the bench and.
Speaker 2: Play your role.
Speaker 1: And that was the moment after that game, after that
Speaker 1: Game seven, which let's be honest. I wanted the Kings
Speaker 1: to win because the dynasty I'm hoping will end at
Speaker 1: some point. I want to see a new piece, new
Speaker 1: blood come to the forefront. I came to terms with
Speaker 1: the reality that Steph Curry is the best to ever
Speaker 1: do it at the point guard position.
Speaker 5: He just is.
Speaker 1: That was the performance fifty piece Game seven, when you're
Speaker 1: only surprised that he missed. That was point god as
Speaker 1: John Morant would say, that was point goat performance. He
Speaker 1: puts up fifty after an embarrassing Game six, the worst
Speaker 1: defeat that they ever had, and the Steve Kerr era
Speaker 1: in Game six, stays up all night, watches film, then
Speaker 1: comes ready to kill.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: I always was like, oh, it's so cute that they
Speaker 1: call him the baby face Assassin. You know, You're like,
Speaker 1: that's a really cute nickname.
Speaker 2: No, he really is.
Speaker 1: He really is Liam Neeson. He really is a man
Speaker 1: with some very specific skills. He really does take pleasure
Speaker 1: in telling fifty cent, Hey, why don't you did.
Speaker 2: You see it?
Speaker 1: He pretended to light the beam on fifty cent, Like
Speaker 1: this beam, bitch, that's what that was. It's sick, it's twisted.
Speaker 1: The look on his face when he's ending you is
Speaker 1: pure sick delight. It's not just joy for joy's sake,
Speaker 1: because I enjoy playing a child's game and making sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: No, no, I enjoy ending you.
Speaker 1: I enjoy you thinking you're gonna win and me silencing
Speaker 1: your cute little crowd at Golden One.
Speaker 2: It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: It's like a boa constrictor around your neck and there's
Speaker 1: no feeling like it.
Speaker 3: It's an outer body experience.
Speaker 1: You're sitting there on your couch or wherever you are,
Speaker 1: and you're like, the game's not over, but it's over,
Speaker 1: and you're watching yourself in awe of you dying right there.
Speaker 3: That's what that was. So now the NBA gets what
Speaker 3: they want.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry versus Lebron in the playoffs, first time they've
Speaker 1: ever faced each other in the playoffs, not in the finals,
Speaker 1: which I think is incredible. Lakers, of course, get the
Speaker 1: job done by giving Dylan Brooks exactly what he wanted,
Speaker 1: a forty piece, a forty point loss in a closeout game,
Speaker 1: which gives us a seven seed playing a six seed
Speaker 1: in the second round of the playoffs. Warriors now get
Speaker 1: home court advantage. Isn't that a bitch? You sit there
Speaker 1: and you scrap and claw, and you think that the
Speaker 1: Warriors are dead and now they have home court.
Speaker 2: Until they play the Nuggets or the Suns.
Speaker 1: Isn't that something The narratives obviously will be out of
Speaker 1: control because these are two out of the five best
Speaker 1: players in NBA history going up one against one another,
Speaker 1: both in the tail end of their careers, but not
Speaker 1: looking a day over twenty seven, and you'd think maybe
Speaker 1: this was the first time. Oh maybe the NBA wish
Speaker 1: it was the Western Conference finals. But I think they
Speaker 1: are going to smash the ratings again for the second round,
Speaker 1: just like they did in the first round.
Speaker 2: The difference. I don't think this goes seven games.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry was asked a question which I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about all day. The question was, Hey, Steph, who can
Speaker 1: stop Steph Curry? And he said he said, hopefully we
Speaker 1: never find out what.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll never find out?
Speaker 1: He is deadly I can This is like the New
Speaker 1: show Citadel, where if he's an assassin, who's gonna beat
Speaker 1: our dubs?
Speaker 2: Nobody that's who.
Speaker 1: This is a championship team and their toughest test They
Speaker 1: just finished in seventh