Klay Thompson hadn't heard about trade rumor until GM Bob Myers called

Klay Thompson didn't hear about the false trade rumor about himself until Warriors general manager Bob Myers reached out to tell him it wasn't true.

The words out of Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers were simple.

“We’re not trading Klay,” Myers said in a radio interview with 95.7 The Game. “That’s the short answer.”

The former player agent said in reference to Monday's rumor about Klay Thompson potentially being shipped to Boston for a package including Jae Crowder, Avery Bradley and a future first-round pick.

The rumor picked up steam when former player and Boston Celtics analyst Brian Scalabrine shared his thoughts on the trade musing through a radio show in Sirius XM NBA Radio. After the rumor had gone viral, Scalabrine took to Twitter to clarify it was something he read, not insider information from his own resources.

“I know Scalabrine, I know him. I represented him. Just call me,” Myers said on 95.7. “Call me and say, ‘Hey man. I saw this. I’m gonna go on the radio. Is it true?’ And then it’s over.”

But the rumor had gained so much traction after he went on the airwaves that Myers was forced to assure Thompson there wasn't a thing to worry about.

“I wish there was a little bit more discipline because you know what it causes: I gotta talk to Klay Thompson,” Myers said. “I gotta talk to his agent. And I get it, it’s part of the job. And there are times where rumors have weight to them and meaning, but I think it requires a little bit more diligence then just throwing stuff out there.”

“I told Klay,” Myers continued. “I called him and I said, ‘Klay, don’t listen to anything.’ He doesn’t even know who we play most of the time, he’s not a guy that’s reading everything. He hadn’t even seen it. Then I talked to his agent. The media is very, very powerful. And we’re in a very public business.”

“And I don’t want to sit here and say every trade rumor is wrong because sometimes the media is right,” Myers said. “But I think everybody would be better off if we all kind of looked a little closer at things before we said ’em. But that’s me. That makes my life easier but I don’t think people really care.”

Scalabrine later explained during the Celtics pre-game show that he was just putting a “what-if” scenario out there.

“I'm not an insider, I'm not like Woj (Adrian Wojnarowski) and those guys, I'm a reporter,” Scalabrine said.

Needless to say, whatever little credibility he had in his stint as a reporter, he's most likely lost it with the splash this rumor made and how quickly it was shut down by all sources involved.