Lakers Coach signed Klay Thompson for $150 million to join the team.
NBC Sports Bay Area and California are reporting that the Warriors are ‘aggressors’ for Markkanen. Additionally, Klay Thompson has made his final offer to the Warriors. Klay’s Steph request Klay’s communication to Draymond regarding the Olympic timetable Klay Thompson reportedly believed that joining the Lakers was too similar to rejoining the Warriors. By Joaquin Ruiz • Published 19 minutes ago | Updated 21 minutes ago. SHARE NBC Universal, Inc.’s “Dubs Talk” co-hosts Monte Poole and Dalton Johnson discuss Klay Thompson’s departure from the Golden State Warriors and the Bay Area to join Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving with the Dallas Mavericks, and his future prospects. Klay Thompson wanted a fresh start after 13 seasons with the Warriors, and the Dallas Mavericks provided it. But the Los Angeles Lakers didn’t. Following reports that Thompson After narrowing down his free-agent options to the Mavericks and Lakers, many people, including the sharpshooter’s father, questioned why he didn’t go to Hollywood. According to Thompson, the situation in Los Angeles appeared to be too similar to that in San Francisco. But something about playing for the Lakers seemed too similar to playing for the Warriors,” ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Kendra Andrews wrote in a feature story Wednesday. 
“As one source close to him put it, ‘Would this be trading one fishbowl for another?'”In the two weeks since he determined and accepted that his time with the Warriors was over, Thompson had only talked about wanting ‘new experiences’ and a ‘fresh start.’ Dallas looked to be a better spot to obtain it.” Thompson left Golden State after the team missed the NBA playoffs for the first time, despite the fact that he, Steph Curry, and Draymond Green were all healthy. Thompson memorably went 0 for 10 in the Warriors’ season-ending NBA Play-In Tournament loss to theSimilarly, the Lakers finished the 2023-24 regular season as the Western Conference’s No. 7 seed and were swept by the Denver Nuggets in the first round, a huge disappointment given the hype that a team with LeBron James, Anthony Davis, D’Angelo Russell, and Austin Reaves receives nightly.