Saw this tweet and I want to put it on my blog. Klay is my favorite player in the NBA. He wasn’t a top six pick in his draft class.He was the eleventh player taken in his draft class from sleepy Washington State of all places.
When Jerry West was the guru for the process in Golden State which built three championship teams… he once said, “If you trade Klay Thompson..I’m quitting tomorrow.”
Steph may be the star, but Klay is the soul of the team.
A pristine three point shooter who got better off the dribble as his career progressed and a bulldog of a defender.
Klay hasn’t played since the NBA Finals vs. the Toronto Raptors in 2019. A knee injury followed by an Achilles injury. I’m hoping for the best for Klay. The league needs players like Klay to promote the sport.
Klay’s tweet after the loss to Memphis:
‘ I’ve got to watch a lot of hoops the last 2 years, and figured out quick it’s not my specialty. While our season comes to an end, mines just getting started and I’ve never been hungrier. I TRULY BELIEVE my best ball lies ahead of me, We ain’t done I promise you that.’
Klay Thompson…11th pick in his class, Kawhi Leonard 15th pick in his draft class, Devin Booker 13th player taken in his class, Donovan Mitchell the 13th player taken in his class, SGA the 11th pick of his class…and so on.
Sam Presti… you don’t need to tank next year. You merely need to use ‘some’ of your draft capital this summer and come away with another star combo guard to go along with SGA.
There are three guys at least who could fill this void…Cade, Jalen Suggs, or Davion Mitchell. For gods sake as GM of the Thunder you reside in a state which borders the best basketball high school talent in the country in Texas.
If we get the the Houston pick…even better. That’s gravy.
Enough of the bullshit talk about tanking again next season.
You proved following the 2012 NBA Finals appearance you couldn’t deal with three stars on a team by the Harden trade. So stop with the talk about tanking next season. You and your scouting staff do your job.
Tank to do what? Trade another star player to another team in the West.
Let’s go. Get with it.
This isn’t the Daily Thunder where you send them suggestions on the daily content. An honest word is written here occasionally.
Maybe someone else should be involved with the Thunder drafting process. Any blind fool would have taken Kevin Durant after Portland foolishly took Greg Oden back in the day. Here’s what I’m saying… Sam Presti without Kevin Durant has done very little except shuffle players around the league.
Not one single Thunder team since Durant has won one single first round playoff series. He could grow a mullet at this point and challenge Mike Gundy for Mullet King irrelevance at this point.
With thirty-four combined first and second round picks bewteen now and 2027—I find it odd we as Thunder fans couldn’t get something like Klay’s tweet instead of the ominous warning another season of tanking is ahead for the Thunder.