The Los Angeles Lakers made lots of sense as a vacation spot this offseason for first-time unrestricted free agent Klay Thompson.
Thompson grew up in Los Angeles rooting for the Lakers. His father, Mychal Thompson, received two NBA championships with the group as a participant within the late Eighties and at present serves because the staff’s radio analyst. Thompson was additionally personally pitched by LeBron James to staff up in Los Angeles, and the Lakers celebrity reportedly was keen to take much less on his contract extension if Thompson signed with the purple and gold.
Nevertheless, Thompson opted to signal with the Dallas Mavericks, a career-altering resolution that turned potential in a three-team sign-and-trade with the Golden State Warriors and Charlotte Hornets.
So, why did Thompson resolve to affix Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving as a substitute of working it again within the Bay Space with the Warriors or chasing one other championship with James?
“One thing about taking part in for the Lakers apparently felt an excessive amount of like taking part in for the Warriors,” ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Kendra Andrews reported Wednesday. “As one supply near him put it, ‘Would this be buying and selling one fishbowl for an additional?'”
Thompson wished a recent begin in a brand new market. The Warriors have been a worldwide model ever since Thompson teamed up with Steph Curry in a star-studded backcourt that perpetually modified how NBA basketball is performed. The Lakers have at all times been certainly one of—if not the—most-covered and talked about groups within the NBA by pundits and media alike.
Thompson is not precisely hiding from the highlight by selecting the Mavericks over the Lakers, Warriors and different groups in free company. The Mavs are coming off an NBA Finals look and are owned partly by one of the crucial outspoken homeowners in sports activities, Mark Cuban.
However Thompson wished one thing totally different—new experiences for his twelfth NBA season. And that is what he’ll get in Dallas.