This photo is officially peak Bay Area

Steph Curry, a tech exec and E-40 together as one.
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Sam Laird
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- One reason it's good to be a technology executive in the Bay Area is that you can afford or otherwise obtain courtside tickets for Game 7 of an epic NBA Playoffs series, then celebrate with the league's reigning MVP after a comeback win that will live on forever in team lore. 

One particular photo from the Golden State Warriors' stunning Game 7 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night in Oakland sums up the current Bay Area moment quite well: Glory for the hometown Warriors, and first row seats for many others to observe Silicon Valley business people living a life of dreams. 

Curry unleashed a primal scream in the closing moments of Golden State's Game 7 win, punctuating a Warriors comeback in the series that few predicted after Oklahoma raced out to a 3-1 lead. Our photograph in question got passed around online after the game: It showed Curry yelling, with a courtside fan in flip-flops and a bright yellow Warriors T-shirt yelling right back in pumped-up elation. (Check the photo out atop this post; he's to the far left.)


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The great photo all led to a natural question among many fans: Who was that guy? 

SFGate.com did some poking around and turned up what we probably should have figured all along: That man living the courtside dream was a Silicon Valley tech exec. 

More specifically, he's an exec for Apple, quite probably the most iconic Silicon Valley startup of all time. His name is Eddy Cue; he's in charge of some of Apple's most recognizable products

To be clear here: We aren't shaming Cue. Good for him. That's what you should do when you're balling like that. 

Meanwhile, one more thing: The other fan in the shot, the one wearing a white hat and partially obscured by Curry? That's the rapper E-40

So there you have it: E-40, a tech bigwig and Steph Curry. A more fitting Bay Area photo was never snapped. 

Now here it is again, annotated for your convenience. 


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Sam Laird

Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.

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