{"id":469452,"date":"2025-11-13T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=469452"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:49:25","slug":"klay-thompson-the-background-emerges-what-a-blow-with-the-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/klay-thompson-the-background-emerges-what-a-blow-with-the-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson, the background emerges: what a blow with the Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was certainly not a happy night for Klay Thompson, who scored 19 points with 6\/17 from the field and 6\/16 from 3-point range in the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; home defeat to the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>These were his words after the game:<span class=\"s2\"> \u201cI\u2019m enjoying it, I get to see the game develop so I can see where to pick my spots. At the end of the day, I played 30 minutes in the NBA, year 15, in just trying to be out there as much as I possibly can. I\u2019m not saying the end is near but like it\u2019s such a privilege to be out there, no matter if it\u2019s mid-November or early June. My goal this year is to be the most consistent presence in the lineup.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Meanwhile, details are emerging about his decision last season. According to Joe Vardon of The Athletic, the Los Angeles Lakers had offered the then Golden State Warriors shooter a four-year, $80 million contract, but Thompson ultimately chose to sign with the Mavericks for less money with the intention of playing alongside Luka Doncic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was certainly not a happy night for Klay Thompson, who scored 19 points with 6\/17 from the field and 6\/16 from 3-point range<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-469452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469452"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=469452"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=469452"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=469452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}