With Kevin Durant choosing the Golden Stat Warriors in free agency, it put four All-Star on one starting lineup. That includes the Splash Brothers of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. Being Durant being a sharpshooter himself, it’s obvious the volume of each player will go down. The player most see being affected is Thompson. Klay however wants to make one thing clear, he isn’t sacrificing a damn thing.
“I feel kind of disrespected that people keep using the term sacrifice to describe me and describe us,” Thompson told The Vertical. “We all want to see each other do well. But I’m not sacrificing [expletive], because my game isn’t changing. I’m still going to try to get buckets, hit shots, come off screens. I want to win and have a fun time every game we play.
“The NBA season can get mundane; 82 games are so long and there can be some boredom. Now, we can embrace being the hated team and getting everyone’s best, and adding some tension every night. It’ll be a fun experience going into arenas on the road, with opposing fans hating what we’ve built.”
Durant who’s on Team USA with Thompson, wants his new teammates to stay true to themselves.
“We want Klay to stay Klay,” Durant told The Vertical. “We don’t want him to change. The games dictate where the shots come from. I may shoot 12 shots one night; Klay may shoot eight or nine shots one night, and Steph may shoot 25 shots one night. And it could be a different flow another night.”
