>The NBA All-Star games is for the fans and I am glad they have the vote. But come on folks — Klay Thompson ahead of Booker? Carmelo Anthony ahead of KAT and Gobert? Kyrie Irving & Derrick Rose ahead of Van Vleet and Garland? Do better NBA fans.
Rookie contract (2011/12-2014/15): $9,860,320
2nd Contract(2015/16-2018/19): $68,978,450
Total until injury in 2019 Finals: $78,838,770
Since being injured: 2019/20 : $32,742,000 2020/21: $35,361,360 2021/22: $16,211,282 until now(adjusted for 35 missed games this season)
Total since injury in 2019 Finals: $84,314,642
Source: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/thompkl01.html
>Philadelphia 76ers guard Danny Green couldn’t wait to see Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson back on the court after over two years away from the game due to recovering from a torn ACL, followed by a ruptured Achilles a year later.
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>The origin of Thompson’s 177-game absence occurred in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals between the Warriors and Toronto Raptors. Green was a member of that Raptors championship team, and he was whistled for a foul after he attempted a chase-down block on Thompson. The collision caused the five-time All-Star to land awkwardly on his left leg, tearing his ACL.
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>"If I can take that play back, I would,” Green told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night. “No one wants to see a great player go down, and no one wants to be the cause of that. It wasn't intentional. I’m glad that he’s back. The game has missed him.”
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>Green, a three-time NBA champion, said he felt bad about his role in Thompson losing significant time. Initially, there was a sizable sector of Warriors fans who believed his contact with Thompson in the air was a dirty play.
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>“When it first happened, I thought I blocked the ball,” Green told Yahoo Sports. “I thought it was a clean block and then he went down, I was like, ‘Man, he’s hurt. Let me make sure he’s OK.’ Some of the guys on the sidelines were upset. A lot of fans were upset. Obviously, I got a lot of backlash for it. But I'm trying to make a clean play on the ball, and I just wanted to make sure he was good. And then he came back on the court to shoot his free throws, and that's when I thought he was fine.
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>“I didn't know that he tore anything until after the game, which was a tough blow. It was tough to hear what was being said, but I didn't look at myself as the victim. My concern was for him. Their fans are great fans. They’re going to encourage their team. And anybody that tries to hurt or do anything to the other 10 or 13 players, they're gonna fight for them. So, I got some heated emotions from some of the fans, but every time I've spoken about the incident, I've stated that it was not purposeful at all.”
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>“For him to get back, it took a lot of persistence, man,” Green told Yahoo Sports. “It took resilience. He's a great player, so I never doubted that. He’s a true warrior, no pun intended. A lot of people, including myself and the fans, are excited that he’s back. We’ve all been looking forward to seeing Klay be the Klay that we have know
"I know myself. I know how good I am. I know the things I've done. ... It's like -- how many times do I have to do something that no one else has ever done before and get respect? Do I have to go score 50 in a quarter now? Like, what the hell? It's whatever though, man. It's over with. I'm going to use it as fuel."
"I'm excited to get out there and prove to people who I am," Thompson says. "I know they forgot because I've been out for two years, but I've never been hungrier seeing that stuff. Never been hungrier. And the best way at revenge is to win. Seriously."
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33001192/inside-klay-thompson-return-more-two-years-away-know-how-good-am
> “I drew the first up play … for him to catch it and move it on,” Kerr said. “I should have known better.”
> In the locker room, the game ball was given to him by his Splash Nephew, Canon Curry. A gift from the future, punctuating the present jubilation, because Thompson got past the roughest patch of his life.
> “Threw him a nice crisp pass,” said Curry, whose 3-year-old also delivered Moses Moody the game ball after his first career basket. “Then he wanted a pass back and said, ‘I want to play basketball.’ And Klay gave it to him. So Klay’s second pass went to Canon.”
> “I still remember in the 2016 Olympics, we’re all staying in the village,” Bogut said. “The USA (men’s basketball team), as you know, they’re too big-time for the village. They have them on a cruise liner or whatever they stay at. But we get back from practice one day, like middle of the tournament, got off the bus and in the village we’re walking to our residences. And I see Klay. As I’m on the bus I see Klay just walking around, Team USA gear, headphones on, just walking by himself.
> “So I jump off the bus, I’m like, ‘Klay, what are you doing, man?’ Say hello to him. He goes, ‘Yeah, I just wanted to come see the village.’ He just came by himself, no security, no other players with him. Then he’s like, ‘Where are you going?’ I said, ‘I’m just going back to the Australian quarters.’ And he’s, ‘Can I come with you?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, no worries.’
> “And he came with us, hung out with a few of our players, because he knows Aron Baynes and Brock Motum. Came and said hello to them. And then fast-forward two or three hours later, I thought he’d left. I walked downstairs to go to dinner or whatever and he’s downstairs playing ping-pong with, like, someone from the athletics team on the Australian national team, you know?”
In the regular season: Klay Thompson: 616 games played, 20,360 minutes played. Kyrie Irving: 583 games played, 19,745 minutes played.
In the playoffs: Klay Thompson: 123 games played, 4,569 minutes played. Kyrie Irving: 70 games played, 2,546 minutes played.
It really tells you something about the availability of Irving, it has been a issue through his entire career.
Klay was basically an Iron Man before the 2019 injury, he missed just 25 regular season games before his injury, and played in all the playoff games until his injury.
Edit: Klay did miss one playoff game before his injury: game 3 of the 2019 finals.
sources: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/thompkl01.html https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/i/irvinky01.html
Just looked up his stats after it came out he may play this Sunday. But dudes rookie season was 10 years ago.
He’s averaged over 20 ppg only 5 seasons.
Even his career average is under 20 ppg.
He’s never averaged over 4 RBS a game any season ever.
All that being said, I think he’s a great player and going to win more championships and have a real high caliber future as well.
But at this moment. He’s nowhere near top 75, and he’s crazy to be upset he isn’t.
Edit: it seems most agree with me for the most part. I think the thing I learned the most is that role players that play at that high a level can’t be judged just off stats. That is very true. As I said , I think his future is huge. When he retires I think there will be no doubt he’s top 75.
But one last thing. I know he’s great, he really is, but a lot of people saying he’s top 3 spot up/ catch and shoot/ jump shooters/3pt shooters ever, is a bit much. Lol maybe top 10. And I know he had that one game with that one 37 point quarter. But if that’s your main argument then let me tell you about Brandon Jennings. Lol
Kendra Andrews: “The Warriors beat a fully healthy Jazz team in Utah 123-116 without Draymond Green. Exactly a week ago they beat a fully healthy Suns team in Phoenix without Wiggins and Poole. Pretty astounding they’re doing this all without Klay Thompson.” https://twitter.com/kendra__andrews/status/1477501348228698112?s=21
| 82 - 96 |
| Box Scores: NBA & Yahoo |
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| GAME SUMMARY |
| Location: Chase Center(18064), Clock: |
| Officials: Bennie Adams, Sean Wright and Brandon Schwab |
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total |
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| Cleveland Cavaliers | 21 | 25 | 14 | 22 | 82 |
| Golden State Warriors | 24 | 27 | 28 | 17 | 96 |
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| TEAM STATS |
| Team | PTS | FG | FG% | 3P | 3P% | FT | FT% | OREB | TREB | AST | PF | STL | TO | BLK |
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| Cleveland Cavaliers | 82 | 32-75 | 42.7% | 7-24 | 29.2% | 11-18 | 61.1% | 8 | 42 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 18 | 3 |
| Golden State Warriors | 96 | 39-97 | 40.2% | 10-42 | 23.8% | 8-10 | 80.0% | 22 | 54 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 5 |
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| PLAYER STATS |
With 23 minutes of playtime Klay recorded the following:
6-17 from the field, good for 12 points.
0-7 from 3, good for 0 points.
2 rebounds, 1 assist, 0 steals, 0 blocks and 2 turnovers (including the game ending one).
>A silver lining to the postponement: For the first time tonight since the 2019 Finals, Klay Thompson scrimmaged with the starters, including Steph Curry.
>Steve Kerr made one thing clear tonight: Klay Thompson will start right away when he comes back.
Klay Thompson has made history in his return. With his two 3-pt FG, he became the second fastest in NBA history to 1.8k career threes.
Thompson reached this milestone in 615 games, and the only person who's done it faster is Stephen Curry (545 games).
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1480374912531546116?t=SBWQ1ucwpf8OFuev2qC1Qg&s=19
> NBA TV’s Cavs/Warriors telecast on Sunday – featuring Klay Thompson’s return – delivered the network’s most viewed regular season game telecast since 2016 (Golden State’s record-tying 72nd win) with 844,000 viewers
I think it's safe to say Klay Day was a success
>Juan Toscano-Anderson says in a recent Warriors scrimmage, Klay Thompson scored 12 points in 43 seconds. Thought to himself: ‘Wow. You mean we got two guys that can do that?’
>JTA on Klay in a recent scrimmage: "He’s buckets."
>Juan Toscano-Anderson on Klay's return: 'The magnitude . . . is so big for us, for the (GS) Warriors organization, but just for the Bay, too. Klay is beloved in the Bay. Klay is one of us. Klay could move to Oakland forever. Klay could move to 95th (Avenue) if he wants to.'
>How I’m pulling up to chase tomorrow, Bill Murray is my spirit animal . IM SO EXCITED TO SEE YALL DUBNATION ! LETS GET IT
Very very solid return from him after not having played for 2.5 years. Definitely good signs that bode well for the future.
A few hours ago someone made a post in here asking what Klay's stat line would be today.
I guessed 17-3-1
The guy took the post down!
So I'm looking for my congratulations.
Thank you in advance.
3PM Final list:
Fred VanVleet 8
Anfernee Simons 7
Maxi Kleber 6 (W +14)
Austin Rivers 6 (W +4)
D’Angelo Russell 5 (W +18)
❗️Snapshot is on Wednesday❗️
⭐️ *Reward: Klay Thompson Metallic Silver Fandom Edition Moment from Jan 9th game
9 Moments total:
5️⃣ Moments of top players in 3-pointers made in Jan 9th games
3️⃣ any Rare and/or Legendary 3-pointer Moments
1️⃣ Klay Thompson Vintage Vibes or Deck The Hoops Moment 👀
More info in the blog post
The nine Moments must include the five (5) players with the most 3-Pointers made in NBA games on January 9, 2021.
The nine Moments must also include one (1) Klay Thompson Vintage Vibes or Deck the Hoops Moment.
The nine Moments must also include three (3) Rare or Legendary 3-Pointer Wildcards from the NBA and/or WNBA.
If any of the players don't have a Moment on NBA Top Shot at the start of the Flash Challenge then the player with the sixth most 3-Pointers made will be needed and so on.
This challenge has three tiebreakers to limit the amount of players to a top 5.
Tiebreaker #1 - Team Final Score Point Differential.
Tiebreaker #2 - Player +/-.
Tiebreaker #3 - Most Time Played.
