Klay Thompson Gets Ready for Return to Chase Center!

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00:00No now, I'm mentally invested. Don't tell me to pray. You don't say what's more

00:05He brings the perspective. Yeah, I I think they both have a great point get off me text line

00:13He's truly one of a kind

00:18He's doing a great job, I need you to man up and say what you really want to say

00:24You're doing a great job, holy cannoli right together. They're stymie and guru

00:33All righty, what's going on everybody Matt Steinmetz down?

00:37We're coming to you from Thrive City. That's outside Chase Center

00:41We'll be doing the show from 10 to 2 and then we turn it over to Willard and dibs

00:45And then the Warriors play the Dallas Mavericks tonight

00:49Clay Thompson makes his return to Chase Center, and it should be a

00:54Emotional night a fun night and hopefully a night where we get a little closure on the whole situation

01:01Yeah, no doubt and as the kids say we can't bury the lead Snotty

01:04We outside because we are literally outside and it's beaut I feel like I'm at home play to like Petco Park

01:11This would make a good wiffle ball place, but clay man. What can we say?

01:15We're gonna. We're gonna give him his propers, and it's just do but Stan. He's gonna be some tears tonight, man. I believe yeah

01:23And I think you know he's gonna get obviously a resounding ovation probably a standing ovation

01:29deserves every every

01:31You know every bit of it four-time champion with the Golden State Warriors, and now he's with Dallas

01:36And you know you you look back on on his tenure with the Warriors and the reality of the situation is we've seen it

01:45We've seen him win titles. We've seen him unfortunately lose two seasons the injury

01:50we saw him lose a little bit of his role in the last season, but

01:56When you know I always felt goo when we talked about the Warriors in their heyday

02:02When they when they had Steph Draymond and clay Thompson

02:06I always felt like clay was the most well-loved of all three by by

02:12Outside warrior fans and what I mean by that is I feel like Steph Curry was a little bit of

02:19You know he was the guy that always got you

02:21So he didn't like Steph Curry if you were a fan of another team because he was so great

02:26Draymond of course was the villain, but I always felt like clay Thompson was the player that even non warrior fans

02:33Really loved just because of his attitude how cool. He was how you know a little bit

02:40Flighty he he was but you know he's gonna come back tonight

02:44And and I think everybody's gonna kind of remember the good times

02:47And it should be should be a lot of fun out there no doubt and you tell me if I'm doing a little too much

02:52With this tank, but it's like a great TV show right everybody has a different character a different personality

02:58And you mentioned Draymond and Steph and their beloved but clay too

03:02And his his role to me was just letting people inside of who he was Donnie

03:08He wasn't a fake. He wasn't a phony. He was just natural and people gravitated to him

03:12So it'll be interesting, and I know we got some sound from him to see how this moment

03:18How he takes it all in?

03:19But when I think of clay Thompson

03:21I just think of a real one that always had is he would let you into his world Stony

03:26And it's just amazing that we're outside here before

03:30The storm happens tonight when they take on Dallas in a cup game study the first cup game of the year different floor

03:37I'm not that excited

03:40Bob Myers gonna join us at 1015 former president of basketball operations for the Golden State Warriors, so he's coming up in about 10 minutes

03:48We'll be joined by Kirk Lakob at 1 o'clock out here today

03:52And we're efforting a bunch of a bunch of other guests but tonight clay Thompson

03:56returns to Chase Center and the Dallas Mavericks take on the Golden State Warriors and

04:03You know the one thing. I think we're gonna get into today is

04:07There does seem to be and I don't know what the phrase is if it's bad blood or not, but you know there

04:14There is something that needs to be fixed. I think between clay Thompson and the Warriors organization Wow and

04:22It might not happen tonight, but it'll eventually happen, but I just think if you

04:28Listen to what clay's been saying over the last few days. You know I don't I don't think

04:34He was crazy about the way it ended here, I think he's I think he's good with his teammates

04:40I think he's good with the fans, but I think that I

04:44Just think that he would have preferred it to end a different way and eventually I think they'll come together, but

04:53Right now it's fresh the wound I feel like it is and we've been through

04:58We've been around the block a few times down to you and myself so just like it would friendships and relationships

05:04You know they're breakups and sometimes, but you know either party needs more time than the other and sometimes

05:10You never come together to reconcile and and kind of just talk about what went wrong

05:15And I feel like clay is on that side

05:17But let me you tell me if I'm doing too much because these are my feelings

05:20But I don't know if you caught it last night on Twitter the boss

05:23Sent out the video of clay in the finals against Toronto where we were doing the pre and post and we were in the building

05:30Oracle and clay

05:32Initially got hurt no, and he was on the ground thriving in pain

05:36Stunning nobody at that point knew what the future had in store

05:40But it focused on Steph and Steph went down on the other end of the court. He had the ball

05:46It was almost like he was a prophet Stiney of knowing the severity of what?

05:52This injury as clay light on the ground was going to do and in a crazy world

05:57Clay showed us all the darkness he had to go through to come back, and he never was the same, right?

06:03But what if I told you watching that video Stiney and Steph's reaction?

06:07Steph was kind of right because it never was the same after that I

06:12Mean they they recaptured it in 2022, but you're right. I mean after clay came back from injury

06:19It's one of those things where if you look at

06:21You know you look at his career stats, and there's a two-year break where he didn't play basketball

06:27And then you look at where the stats picked up after that, and he's just not quite the same player

06:33I think I think we know that

06:35He got paid though while he was hurt though Stiney. That's that you know who am I to score anything?

06:40But that's one thing to where I feel like the organization did right by you

06:44Well what I mean, that's my two cents. I think I mean

06:50They had to pay him at that point. I mean because he was you know that was his first

06:55That's the one thing I was thinking about with clay Thompson is

06:59First eight years of his career. He missed 25 total games, so he missed an average of three games a year

07:06He was an Ironman never shot less than 40% from three-point range in any of his first eight seasons

07:12So he was to me. He was the guy who could always be counted on

07:18Those first ten years of the Dynasty, and you know Steph had some injuries early in his career

07:24He missed a lot of games early Draymond green obviously didn't come here as a starter when he was

07:33Selected out of Michigan State, and he's been in and out of the lineup here and there

07:37he's been banged up a little bit, but clay was always the guy who seemed to be in the lineup day in and day out and

07:44He was an Ironman. He was an Ironman goo. Yeah, no doubt and we talked about a ham and cheese peanut butter and jelly

07:51Shaq and Kobe and the Warriors got Steph and clay both homegrown talents and Mark Jackson

07:57I always think of him especially on this day

07:59When he came out and made the shared with us the world that he thought you know he was coaching the best shooting backcourt

08:06Ever and he ended up being right, but I mean we're watching them on the big screen here

08:11You know they got the memes of clay right now the holy cannoli, but Stiney. I'm just

08:15honestly, man, it's just special to be a part of this day and

08:19To be a Bay Area resident

08:22To be able to watch clay and Steph grow and do what they did in regard to capturing four titles. Yeah

08:29clay Thompson

08:31Great career as a Golden State Warrior and

08:35Came to an end at the end of last season and now he's a Dallas Maverick

08:39Guys always you know when they when they play their former teams

08:43It's always a special night for some and I got to believe tonight. It's going to be

08:48A special night it feels like and we're gonna play a lot of this clay Thompson sound from the last couple days

08:53It certainly feels like he's trying to underplay this without I I completely understand and we'll see

09:00we'll see how it all plays out, but

09:03Should be a should be a real interesting night

09:06Tonight at Chase Center with the Dallas Mavericks coming in there five and five and the Warriors off to a great start

09:12They are eight and two eight and two so

09:16If you're out near Chase Center come by say hello

09:21We got Bob Myers coming up on the other side

09:24We got a bunch of guests. We're gonna talk about clay Thompson. I'll open up the phone

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