{"id":478370,"date":"2024-02-16T06:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478370"},"modified":"2024-02-16T06:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:47:31","slug":"klay-comes-off-bench-and-leads-warriors-to-140-137-win-vs-jazz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/klay-comes-off-bench-and-leads-warriors-to-140-137-win-vs-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay comes off bench and leads Warriors to 140-137 win vs. Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson was dropped to the bench for the 1st time since his rookie season, but despite that, he notched 7 3-pointers and finished with a campaign-high 35 points, helping the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a><\/a> to a 140-137 triumph against the host <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\">Utah Jazz<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Heading into the All-Star break with a DUB \u2714\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m5yx1nGfnY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m5yx1nGfnY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1758347233194549681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Klay was on the bench for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since March 2012, during the lockout-delayed 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign in the NBA. Rookie guard Brandin Podziemski took his place from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute on the court and had 13 points, 8 assists, and 6 boards.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That&#8217;s a whole lot of WINS.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Kerr is now the fifth-fastest coach in NBA history to reach 500 regular-season wins. Congrats, Coach! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZNqpF71axD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZNqpF71axD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1758347999749820801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can do 2 things: You can be sad or you can enter the court and respond,&#8221; shared Klay, who became the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Warriors basketballer to surpass 15,000 points. &#8220;I believe I did the latter very well tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Klay had started 727 consecutive matches, the 4<sup>th<\/sup> longest active streak in the league behind only DeMar DeRozan, Damian Lillard, and his teammate Steph Curry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Way to shoot the ball tonight, 1\u20e31\u20e3.<\/p>\n<p>Player of the Game, powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlecloud?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@googlecloud<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gZs9YXRCoF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gZs9YXRCoF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1758353469906530689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a tricky campaign for Thompson and our team,&#8221; claimed the Warriors head coach, but added that he is happy with how Thompson responded to being benched.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0TY9-E22w6o?si=2BgWWEHSu-204tmn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson was dropped to the bench for the 1st time since his rookie season, but despite that, he notched 7 3-pointers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478371,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,17837,17198],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17876,18125,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Thompson came off the bench for the 1st time since his rookie campaign but netted 35 points for the victory of Golden State.","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\/478370"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478370"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478387,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478370\/revisions\/478387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478370"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478370"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}