{"id":485114,"date":"2024-07-10T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485114"},"modified":"2024-07-10T06:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T10:41:53","slug":"klay-thompson-says-mavericks-move-is-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/klay-thompson-says-mavericks-move-is-a-fresh-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson says Mavericks move is a &#8216;fresh start&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson is optimistic and excited about his move to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/dallas-mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><\/a><\/a>, describing it as a &#8220;fresh start&#8221; after a challenging end to his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\"><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><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who spent 13 years with the Warriors, was instrumental in their success, helping them reach six NBA finals between 2015 and 2022 and securing four championships. However, the five-time All-Star faced significant setbacks due to injuries, including knee and Achilles issues, which kept him off the court for almost two years between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"et\">Klay Thompson: Dallas Maverick.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlayThompson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KlayThompson<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MFFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4dVywm0hRf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4dVywm0hRf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs\/status\/1810789855640834304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite his and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/stephen-curry\/\">Stephen Curry<\/a><\/a><\/a>&#8216;s efforts to secure a contract extension with the Warriors, an agreement couldn&#8217;t be reached, leading Thompson to seek new opportunities with the Mavericks. His contract with Golden State was set to expire in June, prompting the move to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming here is just such a fresh start,&#8221; Thompson stated. &#8220;Feeling just wanted again, like I bring great value&#8230; It just gets me excited to go out there and even work out after this press conference and get shots up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his final season with the Warriors, Thompson acknowledged that it was &#8220;tough&#8221; and not &#8220;as joyful as it was in the past,&#8221; hinting at the difficulties he faced both on and off the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson is optimistic and excited about his move to the Dallas Mavericks, describing it as a &#8220;fresh start&#8221; after a challenging end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16748,17113],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17975,19151],"acf":{"announce":"The five-time All-Star is feeling wanted again after difficult last seasons with Warriors ","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\/485114"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485116,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485114\/revisions\/485116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485114"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485114"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}