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There are three Golden State Warriors on the Team USA squad heading to the Rio Olympics: shooting guard Klay Thompson, power forward Draymond Green, and recently singed small forward Kevin Durant. With the team playing their first exhibition against Argentina on Friday, the three shared the court on the same team for the first time […]

Sacrifices will have to be made in Oakland next season. One of the best offenses of all-time just added Kevin Durant. The Warriors will need to figure out the best way to integrate KD. Not a bad problem to have. It’s a good sign for the Warriors that players like Klay Thompson are already making […]

Team USA had its first practice last Tuesday as part of opening their training camp in preparation for the Rio Olympics. The Americans are looking to defend their gold medal in the summer games. To close out their session, the team had shooting drills and after everyone left the court, one stayed behind and decided […]

Klay Thompson and Steph Curry are two of the best three point shooters in the NBA, maybe even of all time. We’ve seen them compete in three-point contests before at NBA All-Star Weekend. Curry won it in 2015 while Klay had won it this past year. Maybe we’ll see them both in the three-point contest […]

There have been a lot of negative attitudes towards some of the NBA’s top players joining forces to create “superteams,” but to Los Angeles Clippers guard J.J. Redick, there’s no need to be worried. In a series of tweets Redick posted Thursday afternoon, he discussed why the idea of the competitive imbalance in the league […]

Just because he is now retired, it does not mean that Steve Nash is done assisting.  Sure, Klay Thompson texted Durant and Curry may have told him that it is irrelevant which one of them MVP so long as they get the ring, but it was Nash who gave the assist that scored. According to […]

The NBA released it’s list of the top merchandise sold between April and June (playoff time), and it’s no surprise who the most sold jerseys belong to. According to NBA.com, MVP Stephen Curry ranks at the top of the list at #1. Following close behind are LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kyrie Irving, and Klay Thompson. […]

Kevin Durant shocked the sports world Monday, as he officially joined forces with the Golden State Warriors. While many never believed that the former MVP would leave Oklahoma City, apparently his decision has been locked in for a while now. Kudos to KD for enjoying a few of the spoils from free agency royalty. Some […]

Now that the Team USA roster has been finalized, all players on board can get acclimated with one another. Although their main objective is to bring home a gold medal for their country, these talented player can easily make this a calculated business trip. Klay Thompson has recently commented on his potential attempts to swoon […]

According to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes has received and accepted an invitation to play with Team USA this summer in the 2016 Olympic Games. He was the 11th of 12 players to accept the invite, just before next week’s deadline when the roster has to be finalized and preparations have to […]

Klay Thompson was not happy about losing in the NBA Finals. It’s understandable with all of the hard work players put in for the entire year to go down the drain in one game, especially after such a historic season in Golden State. Dwyane Wade visited Oracle Arena to watch Game 7 of the Finals, […]

Did the Golden State Warriors lose the NBA title themselves or did the Cleveland Cavaliers simply took it away from them? After the Western Conference champions’ dream run en route to the finals, them losing the series in this manner was unimaginable. After going up 3-1, the Larry O’Brien trophy was supposed to grace the […]

With a combination of basketball success, the presence of talent such as Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green, and a city that is fortunate enough to be in close proximity of Silicon Valley, the Golden State Warriors are certainly one of the NBA’s high profile franchises. Of course, with a great team comes great fans, […]

Klay Thompson is aching. Aching because he has been carrying a heavy load, and it’s been weighing on him unseen. Thompson has had some bad performances, but otherwise he’s produced good, and even great, games throughout the 2016 NBA playoffs. On a few occasions, he has appeared to single-handedly carry his own load as well […]

Given everything the Golden State Warriors have accomplished this season, it’s probably unfair to consider them a failure if they’re unable to top the Cleveland Cavaliers for the NBA title. But, according to Klay Thompson, that will be exactly the case if the Dubs lose Game 7 at Oracle. From ASAP Sports: Q. After winning […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers came back in Game 5 against the Golden State Warriors with strong performances from Kyrie Irving and LeBron James who each had 40+ points. The series between the two teams has had its tense moments from a flagrant foul from Draymond Green on LeBron James to players from each team sending shots […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors NBA Finals series is getting really testy as the both teams have engaged in trash talking in the past few games. In the final minutes of Game 4, LeBron James and Draymond Green got into it as both players exchanged some words. In the postgame press conference, LeBron […]

The Golden State Warriors have used three-point dominance to their advantage throughout their dominant season, and it was on display in fine form during Game 4 of the NBA Finals. In fact, the Warriors shot so well from beyond the arc that they set a new record for the most three-point shots made in an […]

The Golden State Warriors are leading the NBA Finals two games to one against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but there is a lot of noise from fans and the media regarding the inauspicious play of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson so far. The two-time MVP and his sharp shooting backcourt mate scored a combined 20 points in […]

Considering that the 2016 NBA Finals have been filled with blowouts, it’s fitting that it has been recreated with a beat-down in WWE 2K16. On Wednesday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers responded from a 33-point defeat in Game 2 with a crushing 120-90 victory over the Warriors to get the Cavs back into the series. LeBron […]

Klay Thompson has reconsidered the less than complimentary comments he made regarding the Cavs’ Timofey Mozgov last night. Towards the end of the first quarter in Game 3, Mozgov set a hard screen on Thompson as Kyrie Irving attempted to drive through the lane. An offensive foul was called, and Klay was forced to go […]

Back in 2011, the future for a pair of Western Conference powers was changed forever. The San Antonio Spurs traded George Hill to the Indiana Pacers to acquire Kawhi Leonard at 15th overall in the draft. Four picks before that, the Golden State Warriors selected Klay Thompson. Leonard is viewed as one of the league’s brightest […]

Magic Johnson doesn’t agree with his old teammate Mychal Thompson, that the Golden State Warriors would beat the Showtime Lakers. Cross-era comparisons are always a mess. Too many variables to consider, so the most realistic way to compare teams is to check how they fared against their own peers during their own eras. The Warriors […]

Mychal Thompson supported his son Klay‘s comments about his Lakers teams in a recent press conference. Mychal, who was a vital member of the Showtime Lakers who dominated the NBA in the 1980s, surprisingly agreed with his son saying that his team would not be able to match the offensive proficiency of the Golden State Warriors. […]

Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson won’t be dropping out of the Olympics like his teammate, at least not because of an injury. Stephen Curry and LaMarcus Aldridge both declined their invitations to play for Team USA due to injuries. Along with a list of other players, the amount of high profile talent we are used […]

While Steph Curry gets most of the attention for Golden State, Klay Thompson usually quietly just does his thing and helps propel the Warriors to victory. Sometimes he does take over games, but every time he does it in a silent assassin-type fashion. At least, that’s how Warriors general manager Bob Myers thinks of this […]

The Golden State Warriors are one team that is simply on a roll. After handing the Cleveland Cavaliers a blowout loss on Sunday night, the Warriors have now won five consecutive playoff games after trailing the Oklahoma City Thunder 3-1 in the Western Conference Finals. Simply put, their confidence is riding high after moving to […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t expecting the Golden Sate Warriors to attack them the way they did in Game 1 on Thursday night. The plan wasn’t to get Klay Thompson a bunch of open looks or to get Steph Curry in position to bury the Cavs with a flurry of 3-point bombs. The plan was to attack an imminent defensive […]

Game 1 of the NBA Finals was one of those contests you just want to move on from if you’re a Cleveland Cavalier. With the exception of LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving, no one showed up to play for the Cavaliers. Despite a superb job of limiting Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson offensively, […]

As we all know, the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in convincing fashion during Game 1. The game may have been close for a full three quarters, but the Warriors pulled away in the fourth quarter behind gutsy performances from Shaun Livingston and Leandro Barbosa. Livingston led the team with 20 points, while […]

As the Golden State Warriors embark on winning a second consecutive championship, Harrison Barnes could be looking at his last few games with the franchise. The 24-year-old Barnes, who has been the team’s starting small forward since being drafted by the team in 2012, is due to become a restricted free agent this summer. There […]

This is the second year in a row that Kevin Love and Klay Thompson have met against each other in the NBA Finals but it looks like they’ve met each other many times before in the past. In an old photo that recently resurfaced, it’s revealed that the two used to be on the same […]

Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry did not have their usual scoring rampage in Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, but the Golden State Warriors still walked away with a strong win. While Thompson was not on point with his shooting, he was still effective on the offense in a different way. […]

At this point, we all have heard about and seen the Jimmy Kimmel segment where he brings on NBA players to read mean tweets of themselves. It’s absolutely hysterical every time. Yesterday, Jimmy Kimmel Live published their fourth edition of their segment. This time, they had Jalen Rose, Klay Thompson, Steph Curry, Dikembe Mutombo, Reggie Miller, […]

When you’re the best at what you do, you’re going to have a lot of haters. Take for example, the Golden State Warriors. Despite a record-breaking 73-9 season and easily becoming the greatest three-point shooting team of all time, they can’t seem to gain the respect of prior generations. Numerous players from the past such […]

We talk a lot about how basketball, and the NBA in particular, has drifted further and further away from the basket to the perimeter. Sometimes, it’s probably a little over-stated; games are still often won in the trenches, especially in the postseason. But, graphs like the one below illustrate not only how much more the […]

The Golden State Warriors will begin their second straight NBA Finals series on Thursday at Oracle Arena, but, according to the Warriors, this time things feel different. As Game 1 of the series approaches, the team is calmer about playing for a championship this year than they were a year ago. ”I don’t think anyone’s […]

Just hours ahead of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors are the odds-on favorite to win the championship over the Cleveland Cavaliers. It’s easy to understand why. The reigning champions just came back from down 3-1 to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in an exciting 7-game series and broke the Bulls’ […]

Being a parent of a professional athlete must be stressful. At least that seems to be the case for Mychal Thompson, the father of Warriors‘ shooting guard Klay Thompson. According to Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group, the elder Thompson was too nervous to watch Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals against […]