Klay Alexander Thompson is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A four-time NBA champion with the Warriors, he is a five-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Third Team honoree and was once named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team. He has also won gold medals with the United States national team on their 2014 World Cup team and 2016 Olympic team.
Thompson is the son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson. He played college basketball for three seasons with the Washington State Cougars, where he was a two-time first-team all-conference selection in the Pac-10 (now Pac-12). He was selected in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft by Golden State with the 11th overall pick. In 2014, Thompson and teammate Stephen Curry set a then-NBA record with 484 combined three-pointers in a season, earning the pair the nickname of "the Splash Brothers". In 2015, Thompson helped lead the Warriors to their first NBA Championship since 1975 and was a key contributor in the Warriors' 2017 and 2018 titles. He sustained an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals and missed the entirety of the 2019–20 season. Thompson then suffered a torn Achilles tendon while recovering from his knee injury and missed the entire 2020–21 season as well. He returned to play in January 2022, after missing nearly 31 months. He went on to help the Warriors secure a fourth championship in eight seasons, as the team defeated the Boston Celtics in six games to secure the 2022 title.
| Golden State Warriors Current Roster |
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| 0 Payton • 00 Kuminga • 1 Joseph • 2 Podziemski • 3 Paul • 4 Moody • 5 Looney • 11 Thompson • 20 Šarić • 22 Wiggins • 23 Green • 25 Quiñones (TW) • 30 Curry • 32 Jackson-Davis |
| Head coach: Kerr • Assistant coaches: Adams • Atkinson • DeMarco • Fraser • Milojević • Weems |