Issues haven’t precisely gone to plan for Klay Thompson thus far this season, however he’s nonetheless attaining milestones within the NBA historical past books and is helped by Steve Kerr’s encouraging phrases.
Regardless of having one of many worst capturing seasons of his profession, Klay made NBA historical past in opposition to the Magic on Tuesday by transferring forward of Richie Guerin (14,676) for 157th on the all-time scoring listing.
The five-time All-Star scored 15 factors for his group in a much-needed win and revealed that he had a deep chat with head coach Kerr throughout their first apply of 2024 that helped put issues in perspective.
“That helped me chill out loads,” Thompson informed reporters on his chat with Kerr. “Generally I overlook simply how profitable and the way fortunate I’ve been to be a part of a championship group, All-Star video games, gold medals. You need to get again to that stage so badly you may form of get in your personal manner. Quite than forcing it, we had a dialog about having fun with the final chapter of my profession, how fortunate I really am to nonetheless be taking part in this sport, doing it at a excessive stage, being a greater mentor for these younger guys, main by instance, having my power proper each sport.
“He helped me understand if I do have destructive power how that impacts the group in a poor method. So we had a fantastic dialog that helped me change my complete mindset and overlook about capturing splits or factors per sport or All-Star video games and simply to take pleasure in being on this Warriors uniform and admire what we’ve constructed. As a result of it’s such a uncommon alternative for knowledgeable athlete to be part of a lot success and to cross that torch to the younger guys and maintain this factor going.”
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