{"id":454153,"date":"2023-08-08T06:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454153"},"modified":"2023-08-08T06:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:38:04","slug":"klay-thompson-regrets-his-four-finger-taunt-at-devin-booker","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/klay-thompson-regrets-his-four-finger-taunt-at-devin-booker\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson regrets his &#8216;four-finger&#8217; taunt at Devin Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson has expressed his regret about his infamous &#8216;four-finger&#8217; taunt at Sun&#8217;s Devin Booker he made during a clash between Golden State and Phoenix this past season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I was in my feelings, though, and Book was busting my a*s that day. I was not where I needed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Klay Thompson on the Devin Booker trash talk incident. <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PodcastPShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PodcastPShow<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RihVDVepZB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RihVDVepZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHoopCentral\/status\/1688629749755817985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the latest &#8220;Podcast P with Paul George&#8221; Thompson shared his remorse about his action, to the surprise of the host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in my feelings, though, and Book was busting my a\u2013 that day, I was not where I needed to be. God,\u201d Thompson told George about the game.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old evaluated that he didn&#8217;t need to boast about his championships, but rather show respect to Booker&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Klay Thompson with huge praise for Devin Booker: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe survived a tough regime where everyone\u2019s getting traded, fired, and became a franchise player. I should be proud of him.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ml6aAfqqq4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Ml6aAfqqq4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LEEZUS (@AndrewLeezus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewLeezus\/status\/1688650905074503680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stuff doesn\u2019t age well and that didn\u2019t age well for me,\u201d he continued. \u201cI don\u2019t need to be flexing four rings, bro. Everybody knows that, that\u2019s on Wikipedia. My game wasn\u2019t where it was at and we all get insecure at times. I\u2019m man enough to admit that. We all have our moments of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really proud of that one \u2019cause I see Devin Booker and I should be, like, \u2018I should be proud of this young man, the work he\u2019s put in.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson has expressed his regret about his infamous &#8216;four-finger&#8217; taunt at Sun&#8217;s Devin Booker he made during a clash between Golden State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17006,17113],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19025,19151],"acf":{"announce":"The Golden State starlet felt he crossed a line","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454153"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454153"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}