It’s hard to find one image that totally encapsulated the spectacle of Klay Thompson’s return to the Bay Area, but Bay Area photographer Noah Graham got as close as humanly possible. For the former Splash Brother’s first regular season game against the Warriors since he was traded to the Mavericks,

On Tuesday night, the entire NBA world watched as Steph Curry and the Warriors faced off against Klay Thompson for the very first time in history. It was a night that ended with a Curry explosion in the fourth quarter the superstar guard getting heated.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr originally confirmed the scrapped plans for the Curry speech ahead of Tuesday's game. Kerr revealed that Curry and Thompson concluded, following their conversation, that "no words [were] necessary" and that there was "going to be enough emotion already" in the arena.