Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson got emotional when considering his injury struggles over the last two years and his big return to the NBA Finals.
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Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson walks off the court following his team’s series-clinching win over the Dallas Mavericks in the 2022 NBA Western Conference Finals. Against all odds, the Golden State Warriors are back in the NBA Finals for the sixth time in the last eight years. And, once again, it was “close-out” Klay Thompson who led the way to the club’s elimination win over Luka Doncic and Co. on Thursday. In 37 minutes of action, the five-time All-Star scored a game-high 32 points while dropping eight three-point bombs on the Mavs. After the contest, though, Thompson was more concerned with the triples he didn’t get than the many he had amassed.
“I mean, I should’ve had 10 threes,” Thompson told TNT’s Ernie Johnson. “I left like three on the board tonight.”
While the declaration was incredibly on-brand for Thompson — who has also developed a penchant for folding and throwing paper airplanes during his postgame media availability — he couldn’t help but get emotional when discussing the Dubs’ return trip to the Finals in the context of his personal comeback journey.
