Would keeping Klay Thompson or landing Paul George help the Warriors more? 🤔 | First Take
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Published 2024-06-26
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo and Bob Myers join Molly Qerim to discuss Klay Thompson, Paul George and NBA free agency.
0:00 Future for Thompson and George
2:40 Competing in the loaded West
5:30 Stephen A. on the Klay criticism
8:15 Power of NBA players
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All Comments (21)
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Klay is 34. He's not 40. As Stephen A said a "bad" year for him would be a great year for most guards.
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Bob Myers knew to get out of GS before it got worse 😅
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Calling Klay an all-star is disingenuous. It's been five years since he was an all star
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Bob’s pretty smart. He could be a great GM.
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Stephan a the only one who stood up for klay all these years. Facts!!
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The narrative of no loyalty or no commitment when the players treat the business like a business.
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200 mil for pg is BS! He ain't doing anything.
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Keeping Klay, and somehow pulling George, would be truly elite.
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CJ lookin' like "DID I DO THATTTTT?????" 🤣🤣🤣
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how does Austin Rivers look like his Dad and Andrew Tate 😁😁
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Golden state needs to find a way to offload Chris Paul and Wiggins and pick up Paul George and keeping Klay.
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Klay is also a cone on defense now, in addition to his offense going down. He used to be a top tier defender, but the injuries and age got him.
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If we are being honest, the warriors didn’t make the playoffs because they were missing green for nearly half the season. Once he was back and integrated back into the lineup, they were one of the upper quarter of teams in the league. We know of course Green missing that time was mostly his own fault. (He missed all of training camp, preseason and the first few games of the season due to injury so that isn’t his fault, but the two suspensions clearly were). Upside for them was that green being out allowed them to develop and get reps for Kuminga, Pordzinski and Jackson-Davis. Assuming Green doesn’t miss almost half a season again due to suspension and is there, adding someone like George would definitely help their chances. That being said, it’s probably safer to assume green won’t get suspended for half the season than it would be that George won’t miss considerable time to injury which has seem to be a trend the last several seasons.
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CJ channeling his inner steve urkle on this one 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Ppl gotta accept that Klay aint what he used to be
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Is that really the clippers logo
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PG13 to the Warriors means you need to offload Draymond otherwise Draymond is gonna try and fight PG for having a better podcast. Lets be real.
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At the end of the day, Klay has brought many success to the warriors franchise. And tbh he doesn’t owe them anything more. He’s getting older, more injury prone and is probably looking for a team to retire on and live his life
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3:46 "It was never really in doubt, Boston was the better team." Yet everyone, except Zach Lowe and Molly Qerim, picked the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals.
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i want Klay to retire a warrior, but if he is going to have this attitude and put his ego over his chances at winning with the crew, he might as well leave