Klay Thompson shared an emotional story about Giannis Antetokounmpo from 2022, when he was returning after more than two years away from the game. Now teammates in Miami, Thompson says that moment changed the way he viewed Giannis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat game made me feel like I could be a great player again,\u201d Thompson told The Athletic<\/strong>, recalling his 38-point performance against Milwaukee in March 2022. \u201cAfter the game, he walked from the opposing bench all the way down to our bench just to tell me how happy he was for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thompson became emotional as he continued: \u201cI don\u2019t want to get emotional, but that meant a lot to me. To be one of the 75 best players ever and not to be bitter in a moment where your team loses\u2026 that made me look at him in a different light. This guy is genuinely a great human being. So now, to be his teammate is just awesome.\u201d The four-time NBA champion also spoke about Miami\u2019s hunger to win: \u201cI want to give it everything I got before I hang it up because Giannis and I know how hard it is to win. The hardest thing to do in this league is to win a ring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Klay Thompson became emotional recalling Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s gesture in 2022. The two are now teammates with the Miami Heat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":535088,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Miami-Heat.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548191","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=548191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548192,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548191\/revisions\/548192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548191"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548191"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548191"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}