Anthony Joshua (remember the name, Reggie Miller) feeds Steph Curry before Rockets-Warriors

Tom Gatto

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Anthony Joshua (remember the name, Reggie Miller) feeds Steph Curry before Rockets-Warriors image

Add point guard to Anthony Joshua's attributes. The heavyweight championship boxer assisted no less than Stephen Curry on Tuesday night.

Joshua, the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF titleholder, executed a nifty give-and-go as Curry wrapped up his warmup prior to Game 4 of the NBA's Western Conference finals at Oakland's Oracle Arena.

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Fight fans want Joshua, who defeated Joseph Parker in March, to take on WBC champion Deontay Wilder next. One of those fans is TNT analyst Reggie Miller, who perhaps had an old teammate on the brain when Joshua appeared on screen during the game.

Joshua could have said, "I'M RIGHT HERE, REGGIE!"

That Freudian slip did not go unnoticed by one very interested party:

Miller corrected himself on Twitter after the game as he showed himself and fellow analyst Chris Webber posing with Joshua before the Warriors' loss to the Rockets.

Joshua and Wilder have been jawing at each other from afar, but a fight between the two doesn't appear to be close. In fact, Joshua seems to have his eyes on the returning Tyson Fury.

Miller, unintentionally, had another matchup entirely in mind.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.