Woj: Klay Thompson has suffered a torn ACL

[rondofan1255]

Golden State’s Klay Thompson has suffered a torn ACL in his left knee, his agent Greg Lawrence tells ESPN.

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1139404947940765698?s=21

[gouki88]

[dang], that sucks for him. In my opinion he'd been their best player in the Finals.

What a brutal potential (in my mind likely) end to the Warriors dynasty

[PhoSita]

Man that stinks.

Warriors basically gotta punt next year.

And Klay is a FA.

[SparzWizard]

Call it a fitting end or poetic justice for the Warriors dynasty.

They benefitted from facing an Irving-less and Love-less Cavs in 2015.
They played dirty injuring Kawhi Leonard in 2017.
They got lucky the Celtics were without Irving and Hayward in 2018.


All their guys minus Curry went down with brutal/nagging injuries.

[CelticsElite]

It was obvious when he left on crutches.


2 career altering injuries. Crazy


Curry+Green is a lottery team isn't it? I don't think cousins post-achilles moves the needle enough to get the 8 seed. The west is brutal.

[blink]

Man that is horrible.  He was playing really well the whole playoffs.  What an insane end to the Warrior's run.
Well I feel like Klay has a better chance of getting back to 100% than Durant.  As bad as an ACL tear is, the Achilles is worse.

[PhoSita]

Call it a fitting end or poetic justice for the Warriors dynasty.

They benefitted from facing an Irving-less and Love-less Cavs in 2015.
They played dirty injuring Kawhi Leonard in 2017.
They got lucky the Celtics were without Irving and Hayward in 2018.


All their guys minus Curry went down with brutal/nagging injuries.

Get out of here with that nonsense.


The warriors built a great team without top of the draft lotto picks. They changed the league with their pace and space offense and their switching defense. They broke the regular season record for wins.


The Kawhi injury was one player on one play.  The Celtics in 2018 would not have had a chance regardless of injuries.

The 2015 finals would've been much closer with love and Kyrie healthy but I'd take the warriors in that match if all the warriors players were available for each game.


The warriors are what every franchise and every team should aspire to be. They're the team of this decade.  We will be super lucky if the Celts are ever that good, with that kind of chemistry and heart, for even a single season, anytime soon.


Five straight finals runs clearly took their toll. The warriors broke down in this series. Even so they didnt let the raptors win easy. They fought to the bitter end.

Im so bummed to hear about Klays injury. I hope we don't have to wait long before we get to see the splash brothers and Draymond playing together again at full strength.

[gouki88]

It was obvious when he left on crutches.


2 career altering injuries. Crazy


Curry+Green is a lottery team isn't it? I don't think cousins post-achilles moves the needle enough to get the 8 seed. The west is brutal.

I gotta think that that's a lotto team too. I think the Clippers, Lakers, Kings and T-Wolves will all improve considerably, and 3 of those teams didn't make the playoffs this season. Bad signs

[Ogaju]

Call it a fitting end or poetic justice for the Warriors dynasty.

They benefitted from facing an Irving-less and Love-less Cavs in 2015.
They played dirty injuring Kawhi Leonard in 2017.
They got lucky the Celtics were without Irving and Hayward in 2018.


All their guys minus Curry went down with brutal/nagging injuries.

Get out of here with that nonsense.


The warriors built a great team without top of the draft lotto picks. They changed the league with their pace and space offense and their switching defense. They broke the regular season record for wins.


The Kawhi injury was one player on one play.  The Celtics in 2018 would not have had a chance regardless of injuries.

The 2015 finals would've been much closer with love and Kyrie healthy but I'd take the warriors in that match if all the warriors players were available for each game.


The warriors are what every franchise and every team should aspire to be. They're the team of this decade.  We will be super lucky if the Celts are ever that good, with that kind of chemistry and heart, for even a single season, anytime soon.


Five straight finals runs clearly took their toll. The warriors broke down in this series. Even so they didnt let the raptors win easy. They fought to the bitter end.

Im so bummed to hear about Klays injury. I hope we don't have to wait long before we get to see the splash brothers and Draymond playing together again at full strength.

Good post. I stated yesterday how I felt the developing narrative that the Warriors only won because other teams suffered injuries was insincere.

[CelticsElite]

What's with the warriors medical staff? They allowed Klay to go back out and shoot the free throws and play 1 more full court play AFTER he Got hurt

This is after the whole KD debacle of bringing KD back to soon, and cousins tearing his quad in the 1st round...

https://youtu.be/oF_zSEbNL0c

[Ogaju]

What's with the warriors medical staff? They allowed Klay to go back out and shoot the free throws and play 1 more full court play AFTER he Got hurt

This is after the whole KD debacle of bringing KD back to soon, and cousins tearing his quad in the 1st round...

https://youtu.be/oF_zSEbNL0c

At that point they did not know how bad the injury was, and they just wanted him to shoot the free throws and get out of there so that he would remain eligible for the rest of the game.

[CelticsElite]

What's with the warriors medical staff? They allowed Klay to go back out and shoot the free throws and play 1 more full court play AFTER he Got hurt

This is after the whole KD debacle of bringing KD back to soon, and cousins tearing his quad in the 1st round...

https://youtu.be/oF_zSEbNL0c

At that point they did not know how bad the injury was, and they just wanted him to shoot the free throws and get out of there so that he would remain eligible for the rest of the game.

well he was diagnosed with a "mild hamstring strain" the other day after game 2. Could this injury today be the result of being brought back to soon from the hamstring injury? They brought KD to soon and it backfired. I'm betting money this injury today was a compensation type injury and the leg just gave out because it wasn't healed yet

[gouki88]

What's with the warriors medical staff? They allowed Klay to go back out and shoot the free throws and play 1 more full court play AFTER he Got hurt

This is after the whole KD debacle of bringing KD back to soon, and cousins tearing his quad in the 1st round...

https://youtu.be/oF_zSEbNL0c

At that point they did not know how bad the injury was, and they just wanted him to shoot the free throws and get out of there so that he would remain eligible for the rest of the game.

Yeah, pretty hard to be critical of them when it could at that stage still have been a simple twist/hyper-extension.

Not the same as KD's thing, but there's fault all around for that

[Yoki_IsTheName]

It's looking like their biggest mistake of the season was letting of of Chelsea Lane, their former head of sports medicine and performance.

They were willing to pay a premium on players, but cheaped out on their health and fitness, and it cost them.

[bdm860]

Someone in Golden State made a deal with the devil to get all their recent success and now he's come to collect.