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Klay Thompson was on top of the world when he was playing alongside Stephen Curry with the Golden State Warriors.
Since his arrival with the Dallas Mavericks, things have not been the same.
In his second season with the team, he is averaging a career low in minutes per game with 21.7 and a career low in points per game with 9.7.
Without Curry, he doesn’t get to play off someone with the same gravity of his caliber.
Klay hasn’t been able to knock down his usual catch-and-shoot three-pointers and is putting up another career low in 3P% at 31 percent.
If he wants to have the luxury of playing for a team where he has a bigger role, Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report proposed an idea where he could do just that.
“Perhaps the Nets fight for another second-rounder to take on Thompson (whose $17.5 million expiring contract in 2026-27 could be a viable trade piece before the 2027 deadline), but a first-round pick from the Mavericks or Celtics is probably a step too far,” Pincus said Thursday.
Pincus’ full trade idea is a big one, and he made it with the idea of saving Thompson from the 4-12 Dallas Mavericks.
The Mavericks would receive Anfernee Simons and Haywood Highsmith. The Boston Celtics would receive Daniel Gafford and a $27.7 million trade exception from Simons.
The Brooklyn Nets would get Thompson, Dwight Powell, the rights to Yam Madar, three second-round picks, and $3.98 million from the Celtics and Mavericks.
If you think about it from the Mavericks and Celtics perspective, Dallas would clear minutes for Dereck Lively and acquire a true point guard, and Boston gets a center they so desperately need.
Brooklyn would honestly do this trade for the picks, and with the hope that another team would take Thompson on for more second-round picks.
Thompson, who once made up half of the Splash Brothers, now could be on his way to Brooklyn as a salary filler.
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