Klay Thompson had Steph Curry request in Warriors negotiations – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

Klay Thompson’s choice to go away the Warriors was not a simple one to make.

The veteran guard in the end agreed to signal a reported three-year, $50 million contract with the Dallas Mavericks on Monday, ending his 13-year profession with Golden State. However his departure from the one group he has identified within the NBA was not with out its troublesome conversations.

One, of which, was with longtime teammate and fellow Splash Brother, Steph Curry.

Whereas negotiations with the Warriors reportedly stalled over the previous couple of weeks main as much as the beginning of free company, Thompson spoke to Curry and requested the star level guard to not stress the Warriors entrance workplace into re-signing Thompson, The Athletic’s Anthony Slater reported in a feature story on Monday.

“It’s been a layered five-year path to this divorce, splintering final season, sprouting earlier and finalizing within the final couple weeks, the place —among the many conversations Thompson had, league sources mentioned — was a request of Stephen Curry to not exert his important organizational affect and up the temperature with administration to make sure Thompson’s return,” Slater wrote. “Curry’s measured voice, even when it altered the result, wouldn’t change the genuineness of Joe Lacob and the entrance workplace’s true want to have Thompson again.”

It seems his want was granted because the Warriors reportedly had little or no communication with Thompson and his representatives over the previous couple of weeks.

And now Thompson is gone.

Curry has nice organizational affect and oftentimes is requested to log out on massive strikes earlier than the entrance workplace makes them, together with Golden State’s failed pursuit of star forward Paul George, which he and longtime teammate Draymond Inexperienced both were on board with earlier than George opted out of his Los Angeles Clippers contract and reportedly agreed to signal with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Thompson got here to the troublesome choice on his personal and now will be part of forces with Luka Dončić, Kyrie Irving and the Western Convention-rival Mavericks the place he’ll face off towards Curry and the Warriors a minimum of thrice through the 2024-25 NBA season.

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