Klay Thompson happy he wasn’t traded for Kevin Love
By Josh Hill
A few months ago it sounded as though the Golden State Warriors were going to be acquiring Kevin Love from the Minnesota Timberwolves, but that trade never happened.
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It’s primarily didn’t happen because the Dubs were hesitant to trade Klay Thompson and that hesitance turned into an outright refusal to even consider him as a trade chip in the deal.
Mychal Thompson, Klay’s father, said last week on his ESPN LA radio show that his son is happy that he wasn’t traded for Kevin Love and that he’s going to be staying with Golden State for the future.
"“I’m happy about that. He likes it there. He did not want to get traded. As a matter of fact, he saw Kevin in Vegas during the Team USA workouts and said, ‘Thanks a lot, buddy.’ He was teasing him and said, ‘Thanks for putting my name out there in all the trade things’ because he wanted to come to the Warriors.“He’s happy to stay with the Warriors. Thanks to Jerry West and Steve Kerr, they wanted to keep those guys together as they should, so I’m looking forward to that.”"
It’s not hard to be happy that you weren’t traded to the basketball boneyard that Minnesota represents, but Thompson is likely especially happy that he can continue to build on what the Warriors have going for them with their core. Nothing was blown up to acquire Love, and keeping Thompson may prove to be the right move all along for the Warriors.
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