Sacramento's backcourt duo combined for 70 points in a thrilling, come-from-behind playoff victory against the defending-champion Warriors. Time and again in his playoff introduction, De'Aaron Fox pulled off heroics that few had ever reached and even fewer had topped, gracefully dancing into the paint before stepping backward into soft jumpers, earning trips to the foul line and knocking down back-breaking threes. By the time the clock ticked to zero, the horn sounded and the crowd erupted into a frenzy, the speedy guard finished with 38 points, the second-most by any player in his postseason debut, and one point shy of tying Peja Stojakovic's Sacramento-era record. 29 of those points came in the second half, in which the Warriors, not unlike most teams this season, had no answer for Sacramento's floor general.
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