Marc Stein, ESPN Senior Writer 8y

Hard to fathom NBA record Warriors just set

OAKLAND, Calif. --‎ The absolute peak of absurdity for the luckiest correspondent in professional sports had to be last week, when I found myself locked in a televised conversation with one of my boyhood heroes, co-narrating Steph Curry's pregame shooting session alongside a certain batting practice king named Reggie Jackson.

Or maybe it was that crisp February afternoon in the nation's capital, weeks before the Mr. October encounter that 9-year-old me would have never believed, scurrying about the North Lawn at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to box out the crowd and get in position to ask Curry what it was like to commandeer the White House‎ for a few hours.

Or maybe craziest of all, when all the probabilities are computed, was the time Warriors vet Leandro Barbosa motioned to me from across the practice floor, cupped his hand to his ear to signal a telephone conversation and shouted: "Neymar called me!"

That's right.

Turns out that the Brazilian third of the greatest modern triangle offense going -- Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar -- needs his Steph updates just like the rest of us.

"He calls me a lot," Barbosa said.

These are the sorts of things that happen in the Warriors' world, even when you're just an outsider trying to chronicle it all. ‎You see and hear things that, even in this wacky NBA, you simply never thought possible.

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