Klay Thompson Articles - Page 25

James Wiseman’s recovery from knee injury wasn’t easy, but thankfully, he has teammates like Klay Thompson who supported and guided him during his recovery and rehab. Speaking with NBC Sports Bay Area, Wiseman opened up about his difficult journey of getting back to the NBA court. He missed the whole 2021-22 season due to his […]

Kobe Bryant inspired Klay Thompson, and if the words of the Golden State Warriors star were not enough, then his action speaks for itself. Thompson displayed some Black Mamba vibes on Sunday while attending the Los Angeles Dodgers-San Francisco Giants game at the Dodgers Stadium. Aside from his beer drinking exploits and epic celebration, the […]

Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson was the biggest Los Angeles Dodgers fan on Sunday, especially with his brother Trayce Thompson playing and showing up. At the bottom of the seventh inning, the Dodgers broke the 4-4 tie and pulled away from the San Francisco Giants. With the score at 6-4, Trayce handed their opponents […]

While the Golden State Warriors are enjoying their offseason, Klay Thompson is hanging around in town. He was up in LA for the Dodgers game on Sunday when they took on the San Francisco Dodgers, and it looked like he had himself a great time. During the game, Thompson could be spotted in his seat, […]

After rocking the basketball world by winning their fourth NBA championship in eight years, the Golden State Warriors have re-established themselves as the team to beat in the NBA. Stephen Curry won his first NBA Finals MVP, Klay Thompson made his long anticipated return to the court and Draymond Green was back to his old […]

Klay Thompson’s initial return from two-and-a-half years on the sidelines couldn’t have gone much better. Given his insane dedication to offseason training, expect the Golden State Warriors star to come back even better in 2022-23. Before helping the Warriors dispatch of the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, Thompson was already texting his trainer, Ben […]

Klay Thompson’s dad sees the Golden State Warriors remaining as title favorites in 2022-23 despite the Western Conference alone set to be stronger next year, and for good reason. According to Mychal Thompson, the Warriors’ have established continuity on the team with the way they drafted and developed their young players. Now they have an […]

The Golden State Warriors just won their fourth ring in eight years, but make no mistake, they are far from done when it comes to chasing rings. That’s at least according to Klay Thompson’s dad, who shared his belief that the Dubs are eyeing the Michael Jordan standard. Jordan won six rings with the Chicago […]

It’s generally understood by now that most professional athletes don’t reach their pre-injury tear peak in their first season back on the playing field after suffering a torn ACL. What about when a player finally returns from devastating injuries to both his knee and Achilles, though? Klay Thompson will prove a fascinating test case in […]

During his ESPYs acceptance speech for the Best Comeback Athlete award, Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson shared how Kobe Bryant inspired him to become the athlete he is today. Now, Mychal Thompson spilled more details on how the Los Angeles Lakers icon made his job easy on teaching his son the right mindset to […]

Joe Lacob knows his desire for certain changes to the NBA’s luxury-tax structure seem self-serving. The Golden State Warriors owner admitted as much while decrying the current system on the Point Forward podcast, comments that ultimately landed him a $500,000 fine from the league office. But there will undoubtedly come a time when Lacob’s glitzy, big-market, […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night. And it was safe to say the game did not disappoint. The Giants and Dodgers tend to play competitive baseball against one another given their historic rivalry, and that held true in Game 1 of a four-game series in Los Angeles. For LA, […]

Not even the early 2000s Los Angeles Lakers enjoyed the sustained success of the Golden State Warriors. But just because the Lakers’ dynasty fueled by Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant didn’t have nearly the shelf life of Golden State’s hardly means its all-time peak lags far behind the Warriors’. Shaq, in fact, is fully confident […]

Klay Thompson’s comeback arc is perhaps one of the best sports stories of 2022. The Golden State Warriors star missed two years of competitive play due to back-to-back season-ending injuries. After a lengthy rehab period, he came back last season to help his team win their fourth NBA championship in eight years. It wasn’t a […]

It wasn’t just Stephen Curry who made headlines for the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night during the ESPYs. Dubs teammate Klay Thompson was also in attendance to accept his award as this year’s Best Comeback Athlete. It was an emotional moment for Thompson, who came back to win an NBA title with Golden State […]

It has been an eventful few seasons for Klay Thompson. The reigning NBA champion missed the previous two seasons due to injury and has gone through a brutal rehab in order to recover. Tearing his ACL and Achilles in back-to-back years is a difficult task for any athlete. He succeeded in his recovery goals and […]

The Golden State Warriors have put together one of the greatest trios of all time. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green have combined for four titles during their time together.  The trio has combined 17 All-Star appearances, 12 All-NBA teams, and four championships. Since they erupted onto the scene in the mid-2010s, the game […]

The “golden” in Golden State is completely fitting for the Warriors coming into this next season. The embarrassment of riches that the team possesses, both financially and basketball-wise, has become the gold standard for the NBA. They claimed the golden trophy at season’s end and will only be better once the next campaign begins in […]

It’s been a month since the Golden State Warriors lifted the 2022 NBA title but at this point, Klay Thompson isn’t done talking about it just yet. On Wednesday, the Dubs star decided to go on a quick IG Live broadcast to send out a brief yet savage message for all the so-called experts who […]

It’s been four years since Klay Thompson began offseason training with a completely clean bill of health. By no coincidence, that’s also the same amount of time that elapsed between the Golden State Warriors winning the third and fourth titles of basketball’s only ongoing dynasty. Thompson, finally, is back to living his best summer life, […]

Klay Thompson’s Game 6 performance in the 2016 Western Conference Finals was hard to top. After all, it was when the miracle of Game 6 Klay was born. However, for Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob, Stephen Curry has already surpassed that display. Speaking with Tim Kawakami of The Athletic, Lacob opened up why he […]

Klay Thompson’s rapid re-acclimation from missing two-and-a-half seasons while rehabbing from multiple lower-body surgeries made it easy to take his playoff performance with the Golden State Warriors for granted. He scored his first points since 2019 on a driving poster dunk during his long-awaited return on January 9th,  then dropped 33 points on the Los […]

No one had more fun at the Golden State Warriors’ raucous championship parade than Klay Thompson. After going viral multiple times for his semi-drunken public antics on the streets and waters of San Francisco, the future Hall-of-Famer finally addressed his biggest gaffe—in typically hilarious fashion, of course. During his appearance on the latest episode of […]

31-year old Trayce Thompson has become an MLB journeyman. After breaking into the league with the Chicago White Sox in 2015, Thompson spent 2016 and 2017 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers fans were excited to see Golden State Warriors’ star Klay Thompson’s brother play for their team. However, Thompson never got things going in […]

The Golden State Warriors are an extremely talented team. The trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green has now won four NBA titles in the past eight seasons. But Golden State has already lost a couple of key role players in 2022 NBA free agency. Both Otto Porter Jr and Gary Payton II […]

Klay Thompson struggled for the most part in his return to the Golden State Warriors in 2021-22, but he wanted to remind everyone that he’s coming off an injury and didn’t have a full offseason to get his body ready. While Thompson’s performance in the 2022 playoffs has been criticized by some, especially since he […]

Jordan Poole has been a revelation for the Golden State Warriors. The former late 1st-round draft pick balled out for the Dubs last season. His incredible shooting from deep and silky-smooth handles have led fans to crown him the next “Splash Brother”. Klay Thompson certainly doesn’t disagree with that sentiment. In fact, the Warriors star […]

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green continues to bask in the glory of his fourth NBA title. With free agency getting started on Thursday night, Green was out on a boat living it up. This isn’t as entertaining as Klay Thompson’s boat videos, but we’ll take what we can get: There’s Captain Klay and then […]

Draymond Green has been into four championship parades before with the Golden State Warriors, but for him, nothing tops their latest one in San Francisco. In the latest episode of his podcast, Green got real on what made their 2022 parade so different from the others. For him, the fact that Stephen Curry and Klay […]

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr couldn’t help but gush at Klay Thompson’s Michael Jordan declaration for him after they won the 2022 NBA Championship. To recall after the Warriors beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, Thompson said that he’ll never play for another coach again. The sharpshooter even went as far […]

No one had more fun at the Golden State Warriors joyously raucous championship celebration than Klay Thompson. As he downed Hennessy from the bottle, turned Market Street into an impromptu dance floor with his best Michael Jackson impression and even bowled over one fan after tripping on his feet, it’s safe to say the years […]

While watching the Golden State Warriors’ championship parade, Klay Thompson’s dad–two-time NBA title winner Mychal Thompson–couldn’t stop himself from mocking the Minnesota Timberwolves and reminding them what roster they could have. Mychal took to Twitter to joke that the Warriors should give the Timberwolves a ring for their massive role in helping them win four […]

It was a very long day for Klay Thompson as he soaked up the festivities of Monday’s championship parade. From knocking over a fan to nearly losing one of his championship rings, it’s safe to say that it was an eventful day for the Golden State Warriors superstar. After an exhausting series of events, Thompson […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers were rumored to be in the market for a right-handed hitting outfielder after the rib injury to superstar Mookie Betts, which resulted in his placement on the 10-day injured list. Later on Monday, the Dodgers found their guy. Los Angeles completed a trade for Detroit Tigers outfielder Trayce Thompson, the brother […]

Klay Thompson just keeps dropping and losing stuff during the Golden State Warriors’ championship parade on Monday. After losing his championship hat during his boat ride on the way to the parade, he also dropped one of his title rings while celebrating with the fans on the road. He was still wearing his captain’s hat […]

It looks like even Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson couldn’t handle the hype and energy surrounding their championship parade on Monday. As he was trying to run to the crowd during the parade, he accidentally tripped and lost balance before hitting and knocking down an innocent bystander. Fortunately, it wasn’t a hard hit and […]

The Golden State Warriors are celebrating their 2022 NBA title on Monday with an epic championship parade in the Bay Area. By no surprise, there are already some must-see moments, with Klay Thompson already grabbing the spotlight with one of them. Klay couldn’t help but clown Stephen Curry for crying on the court after Game […]

The Golden State Warriors are preparing for their championship parade on Monday and star guard Klay Thompson pulled up in style, heading across the bay in his spiffy boat while wearing his signature title hat. However, in what was a brutal turn of events, Klay was live on IG when heading across the ocean, only […]

In the world of sports, whether it’s the NBA, the NFL, or the MLB, , having a popular athlete as your father is a sure-fire way to gain some level of success. After all, nothing beats being coached by your own parent. That’s doubly true if your father is one of the best sports players […]