{"id":17220,"date":"2022-10-18T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/klay-thompson-opens-up-about-his-contract-situation-with-warriors\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:02:02","slug":"klay-thompson-opens-up-about-his-contract-situation-with-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/klay-thompson-opens-up-about-his-contract-situation-with-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson opens up about his contract situation with Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFYdbYXVUAQDQz9-e1638261732395.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo: &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1465447982136844292\/photo\/2&quot;&gt;Golden State Warriors\/Twitter&lt;\/a&gt;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"870\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFYdbYXVUAQDQz9-696x870.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFYdbYXVUAQDQz9-696x870.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FFYdbYXVUAQDQz9-560x700.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Klay Thompson\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1465447982136844292\/photo\/2\">Golden State Warriors\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Klay Thompson entered the fourth year of his current five-year contract with the Warriors. This season the 32-year-old shooting guard will earn $40.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike his younger teammates Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins, he did not get an extension before the start of the season. Thompson reveals that he didn\u2019t even discuss it with the team\u2019s front office.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, he is not concerned about getting an extension and is confident he will get one sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>Via\u00a0Mark Medina of NBA.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just going to do what I got to do to be the best I can be every day. I\u2019m going to be a great player. I know what I\u2019m capable of. I fully expect to earn another NBA contract, whether it\u2019s this summer or next summer. I\u2019m fully confident in my abilities. I\u2019m not worried about an extension in the meantime because I know it\u2019ll happen if I just do my job and I just be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last season Thompson averaged 20.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 29.4 minutes per game on the way to his fourth NBA championship.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Golden State Warriors\/Twitter Klay Thompson entered the fourth year of his current five-year contract with the Warriors. This season the 32-year-old shooting guard will earn $40.6 million. Unlike his younger teammates Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins, he did not get an extension before the start of the season. Thompson reveals that he didn\u2019t even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[509,449,1093,1056,197,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17222,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17220\/revisions\/17222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}