[Poole] If Thompson simply wants to leave, as one league source on Saturday indicated to NBC Sports Bay Area is the case, that forces Golden State to shift into damage control. The Warriors DO NOT – uppercase intended – want to lose Thompson for nothing more than a lower payroll.
by NokCha_
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The way this roster has been handled for the past few years has been malpractice. Warriors completely fluked their way to 2 vet min signings and steph playing out of his mind to a 2022 championship, but the roster construction has been absolutely abysmal. Wonder how the front office is gonna react that when they realize that kuminga is not that guy. A guy in his 4th year that can barely dribble past his primary defender is the guy you’re making untouchable in any trade that can actually help you. What a joke
i think this is the time for steph and draymond or kerr to give this guy a call and ask him what his true intentions are
is your ego that big that you are willing to throw away 10+ years of legacy?
is your ego that big that you can’t admit father time is undefeated and think you are still a 20 point scorer?
is your ego that big that you think you are more important than steph (who coincidentally is the most ego-less franchise player since tim duncan?)
is your ego that big that you would rather play with lebron than staying with kerr, steph and draymond?
is your ego that big that when you tore your knee up and asked the warriors if you were still worth the max, the warriors said yes, don’t worry about it and essentially paid you two years to rehab?
is your ego so big that all the mental stuff you went through during those two years, the team was behind you, steph was there, draymond was there, kerr was there, that you are willing to just leave?
edit* if it is then that’s fine. you’ll get your jersey retired someday but you ain’t getting a statue like steph and draymond outside chase like how staples has kobe out there and how the mavs have dirk out there
if klay takes the MLE to play for the lakers then its 100% petty shit
If klay is here or not next year it doesnt change anything really. He’ll have his hot flash games and give up points on defense.
If he leaves for nothing, the roster is fucked. I have a hard time imagining they’ll get anything meaningful in return for a sign and trade.
The team will likely suck for a few years.
Just give him a damn contract and let the three of them suck together. What moves are even left?
What is this ??? Is that’s the case then they should have told him Klay we have an offer for you just need to get under the 2nd apron and we will figure out then. At this point he can go, we will be a mid team anyway and just enjoy watching Curry play and be happy we got 4 chips.
If we didn’t get PG because we held on to Kuminga who is not going to be an elite player ever, you would have seen his skill progression by now he can’t drible past anyone! I’m going to be mad and would rather send curry and Draymond away and get picks to start the rebuild
I’m sure MDJ is working his ass off right now, but man he knew the lousy hand he was handed the moment he took the job.
Don’t worry guys, [according to TK](https://x.com/timkawakami/status/1807207512518897855?s=46) they’ll be fine because they already have his replacement:
> They have a replacement for Klay– somebody who sort of already replaced him in a lot of games late last season. It’s Podziemski. Now obviously he’s not Klay, but it was always headed this way.
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> Also should mean pretty much guaranteed minutes for Moody.
If he goes out for ZERO return, it’s worth noting KD went out more graciously – he appreciated the rings and did the Ws a solid.
You’d hope Klay would be at least that appreciative.
I wouldbt be surprised if part of the reason for Klay wanting out is ownerships unwillingness to make a win now move in trading Kuminga+Moody, its very obvious the vets dont really want to play with Kuminga and to some extent Moody (so many time Steph or Klay get visibly frustrated with them.
This is all bullshit. The words they put out to fool fans through their media mouthpieces do not match their actual actions. If you go by what the feed to the media, you would think they would’ve shown some urgency to build around Steph and win now. In reality, in comes out later that the owner and GM have not believed in this team led by Curry since KD left. Pretend to be urgent and want to win now but never offer anything of value in trades. Then they’ll be reports later that they really tried but “trades are too hard”. It’s all bullshit. Lacob wants to lower payroll while pretending like they are trying while keeping Steph.
Warriors don’t have to do shit. He wanted an absurd amount of money for what he brings to the table, so whatever he gets good for him and good riddance.
He didn’t accept the contract he was offered so they should have traded him at the deadline but the rookie GM didn’t have the stones to pull it off.
Klay’s pissed at himself for bypassing 2-years 48M. That offer is long gone. Suck it up Klay. He’s a 12M MLE guy now, nothing more and he can’t accept being a bench guy in Golden State.
He’s comes off as an entitled, petulant teenager.
At last it’s our turn to leave him open if ever we face his new team in the playoffs.
Jesus Klay wtf?
All of a sudden dub nation hates Klay. 🤦🏽♂️
Bro. Wtf.
We helped him through his injuries.
Fans were behind him 100%.
Even after his pouting and selfish play for 2 years.
We still love him.
And he wants to leave??? That’s messed up
Hoping for a Deandre Jordan like case here
I would not waste time being bothered until this whole thing plays out. Right now a lot of leverage is being applied.
Kerr and company, including front officr disrespected Klay all season. F ‘em. Go where you’re valued and wanted, Klay. Do these buffoons no favors. They don’t deserve it. The disrespect of Klay has been shocking.