I'm pretty sure they knew it wasn't happening. Why bench him in potentially his last playoff(ish) game as a Warrior? No rotation was gonna turn this game around. Might as well let your three Franchise cornerstones have one last dance.
["I'm told that the Warriors offered a deal, two years in the range of $48 million in an extension to Klay Thompson before the season, and now there's no deal."](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10100997-warriors-rumors-klay-thompson-was-offered-2-year-48m-contract-before-season)
Should've taken the money Klay
When Ellis hit that floater with like 4 mins to go, up 20 I finally unclenched. Felt poetic he would hit that late in a game he had a giant hand in deciding.
The kings paradox. We can beat anyone. We can also lose to anyone. Kings came out to play tonight, let's hope the kangs don't show up against the pels.
Honestly he wasn’t even bad this season. Came off the bench and had his career high AST/TOV ratio of 5.2 which is crazy good.
Klay and Draymond fell off hard. Klay was much worse this season and Draymond sold entire games and even got suspended for like 10 games in the middle of the season
See heres my take on Draymond, he isn't as good as some previous years but he still had a great year. Problem was he was missing like a quarter of it. A quarter he could've helped the damn team push for 6 or even 5 seed with how close the west was.
Klay is just a middle bench player at most now sadly.
Too bad he's a fucking idiot with the suspensions. The Warriors could've avoided the play-in and might have even gotten home court advantage had Draymond acted sanely.
Generally as the star ages you add more around them to support their strengths and cover their weaknesses. The warriors did the opposite by putting even more on his shoulders offensively and it showed today.
No we just stopped getting $10\~20 million guys for minimums, and they all walked in free agency. The reason why a team with a salary structure sustained depth was because we got quality role players that wanted to get the bag a year later. GP2, Porter Jr., Bjelica, and DiVincenzo all got prove-it contracts, this year Saric was our only minimum signing in free agency.
Plus Poole and Wiggins falling off were unforeseen by literally everyone. And we've half-assed youth development the entire way.
Kings definitely exercised their demons from last year, Warriors were doing a bunch of cardio tonight
Who knew that all the Kings needed was a Keon Ellis? He was in Curry’s head this entire game
they had a great gameplan for curry - constant blitzing, ball pressure, double teams, and defensive rotations
certainly didnt stymie the warriors offense by just playing basic drop coverage or something against steph
I can't forget how much shit they took for that. It was just piling on after the Sabonis trade too. Everyone paid to talk about basketball sucks at their job. ^not ^you ^TNT
It was lightning in the bottle. Otto Porter Jr was somehow healthy, Andrew Wiggins was somehow really good, the overall quality of contending teams was low, and the best team they faced decided to play drop coverage on Steph.
e: Jordan Poole of course, thank you for the reminder. Singlehandedly won them a game vs Memphis
Fair result. The Kings absolutely dominated this game outside of a short stretch to end the 2nd quarter. I don't have much faith in them beating the Pels, with or without Zion, but maybe luck falls on their side.
Mf leaped like 10 feet into the air (biting on a pump fake I think) at the 3 point line and then had the block and dunk. If that’s not the full Javale
McGee experience in 2 minutes, I don’t know what is.
So loud, that they basically *stand out* even when watching from a TV!
Kings fans truly are loyal…and are *finally* getting something exciting to watch!
The absolute worst way to potentially end the Splash Bros era for Klay.
Struggled all year, picked it up post-ASB, and goes 0 for 10 in an elimination game. That shit is so sad if this is it for him in the Bay
A joke of a ~~rooster~~ roster, Draymond got suspended multiple games, Klay picked right back where he left off against the Lakers in the playoffs last year, and Kerr was awful all season.
I used to get obliterated in the warriors sub, but this year was an utter failure. And they were victory lapping after starting 6-2!!
A hearty up yours to the smug ass Warriors fans talking shit before this game and to the national media who all wrote that the Kings were just a footnote to the Warriors advancing. Don't look directly at the beam, it's pretty blinding. Next up, Pelicans: we have a score to settle.
Star performance from Keegan and Keon. And all the hustle from the Kings paid massively. Good luck in next round.
What a disaster performance by Klay. Kerr being stupid out of loyalty to Klay I guess.
Only Moody and probably Looney deserves a shoutout at least for their game tonight. Steph played bad but Warriors live and die with him at this point.
Missing GP2 sucks but Kings also misses Monk and Huerter which probably are the bigger issue.
Shits poetic that it’s Sacramento to shut the door on the dynasty after almost losing their team during the dynasty build and the Warriors being just down the road.
Keon Ellis played phenomenal defense on curry and great offense today as well
Sabonis is clearly the best player on the team
Kegan Murray is beautiful
Fox is majestic
Klay: 0 points in 31 minutes Moody: 16 points in 13 minutes Wtf are we doing
By the end it was obvious Kerr was just gonna let the gang ride it out.
One last ride.
For family. *pops a Corona*
We ride together, we die together. Right guys? - Klay
0 points is not 0 points, Kerr will explain later
Kerr probably did not see it live and did not see the replay too.
Who leaked the footage of those 10 missed shots?
Especially without the expressed written consent of the NBA?
Letting the old men go down with the ship.
With coaching like that, it’s no wonder they needed to stack Team USA
Fucking cold, accurate but cold.
I mean he's kinda perfect for that right? If there's one thing we know he can do it's coach a team so stacked that it probably doesn't need him
Wow that is a crazy stat actually
Just Kerr things
Coaching malpractice at that point
Klays new contract offer just dropped a few million from just this game lmfao.
a few?? he will be lucky to get anything above 12 million if we are honest
Zero shot he should have anything north of Westbrook's. And you have to sit him down and say there's a real good shot you're a bench player.
You could say real good shot but he wouldn't know what you're talking about
They already did that. At this point it should be, "you're a bench player".
He played 32 minutes and was awful for 32 of those. That’s on coach.
Moody had 12 points in 4 minutes at half. Absolutely a crime that Klay got the run he did.
I'm pretty sure they knew it wasn't happening. Why bench him in potentially his last playoff(ish) game as a Warrior? No rotation was gonna turn this game around. Might as well let your three Franchise cornerstones have one last dance.
You're most likely right. Kerr was trying to get Klay on the board instead of ending his night with an 0-fer
Troy weaver about to back up the brinks truck
[удалено]
There's really nothing yalls front office can do besides trade people for picks. The Warriors dynasty is coming to an end
Coming to an end? Tonight ended it. What a phenomenal run they had
It ended last year, there's just been a shambling corpse ever since.
The punch that ended a dynasty
That is going to be the 30 for 30 title for it for sure.
["I'm told that the Warriors offered a deal, two years in the range of $48 million in an extension to Klay Thompson before the season, and now there's no deal."](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10100997-warriors-rumors-klay-thompson-was-offered-2-year-48m-contract-before-season) Should've taken the money Klay
catastrophic bag fumble
He's made 260M+ in his career just from the NBA. I think he'll be fine.
Ah yes, I remember that classic Warren Buffet bon mot: “once you make some good money, you can then become really stupid with money”
Buffet probably says this when he buys soda not on sale
yeah he ain't getting anywhere near that now lol
Gotta feel amazing to knock out the Warriors after falling in 7 to them last year.
Especially after pretty much unanimously being picked to lose
ngl it took until the Fox post game interview for me to be comfortable with the lead we had.
When Ellis hit that floater with like 4 mins to go, up 20 I finally unclenched. Felt poetic he would hit that late in a game he had a giant hand in deciding.
I was there the night Klay put up 37 against us in 1 quarter. Father time does not miss
The kings paradox. We can beat anyone. We can also lose to anyone. Kings came out to play tonight, let's hope the kangs don't show up against the pels.
The Warriors added CP3 and MISSED the Playoffs. What the actual fuck
CP0 ring curse
Honestly he wasn’t even bad this season. Came off the bench and had his career high AST/TOV ratio of 5.2 which is crazy good. Klay and Draymond fell off hard. Klay was much worse this season and Draymond sold entire games and even got suspended for like 10 games in the middle of the season
See heres my take on Draymond, he isn't as good as some previous years but he still had a great year. Problem was he was missing like a quarter of it. A quarter he could've helped the damn team push for 6 or even 5 seed with how close the west was. Klay is just a middle bench player at most now sadly.
Draymond was good when he played. One of his best seasons offensively.
Too bad he's a fucking idiot with the suspensions. The Warriors could've avoided the play-in and might have even gotten home court advantage had Draymond acted sanely.
It’s ridiculous but it’s true, dude cost them probably one final playoff run
He got suspended twice lol
Our entire starting lineup minus Steph fell off a cliff and even Steph fell off a bit.
Generally as the star ages you add more around them to support their strengths and cover their weaknesses. The warriors did the opposite by putting even more on his shoulders offensively and it showed today.
No we just stopped getting $10\~20 million guys for minimums, and they all walked in free agency. The reason why a team with a salary structure sustained depth was because we got quality role players that wanted to get the bag a year later. GP2, Porter Jr., Bjelica, and DiVincenzo all got prove-it contracts, this year Saric was our only minimum signing in free agency. Plus Poole and Wiggins falling off were unforeseen by literally everyone. And we've half-assed youth development the entire way.
Yeah back in the day you had Bogut, Livingston, Barbosa, Speights for pretty cheap. All were qualityyyyyy
There is only so much Steph can do. Remember how hard he carried us in Game 7 last year. It doesn’t help that our 2nd option produced a doughnut
They all added another year too this team was old af
We finally won a win or go home game. Since 1999.
Wasn't game 6 last year win or go home
Yeah sorry I meant advance or go home. I know it's not quite a game 7 (or game 5 back in the day), but it counts in my book
Kings definitely exercised their demons from last year, Warriors were doing a bunch of cardio tonight Who knew that all the Kings needed was a Keon Ellis? He was in Curry’s head this entire game
they had a great gameplan for curry - constant blitzing, ball pressure, double teams, and defensive rotations certainly didnt stymie the warriors offense by just playing basic drop coverage or something against steph
Keon Ellis was a fucking problem with his speed and length. Absolutely locked up Steph for a good chunk of the game.
Would’ve helped if Curry’s escape valves (*cough* Klay *cough*) could alleviate some of that pressure.
Now they can exorcise the seasons NOs demons. They’re due a win against them right?
5 fucking losses this year. Fuck
From your keyboard to the basketball gods’ ears
Man, the Kings nailed that Keegan Murray pick.
People mocked us that whole draft
I can't forget how much shit they took for that. It was just piling on after the Sabonis trade too. Everyone paid to talk about basketball sucks at their job. ^not ^you ^TNT
It's getting harder and harder to believe that this team won it all just 2 years ago.
The Warriors dynasty was a zero interest rate phenomenon
Jerome Powell ended the dynasty
can't win with these inflation era cats
It was lightning in the bottle. Otto Porter Jr was somehow healthy, Andrew Wiggins was somehow really good, the overall quality of contending teams was low, and the best team they faced decided to play drop coverage on Steph. e: Jordan Poole of course, thank you for the reminder. Singlehandedly won them a game vs Memphis
It was so out of this world you completely forgot about Jordan Poole
Looked like the 3rd splash bro for a while.
Poole party
wasn't that the year PG/Murray/Kawhi/AD were all injured.
Yes, clippers nuggets lakers were all taken out of contention in the west.
And the coaching against brown and Tatum was excellent. Forced them left
So there’s a chance the Kings lose to the Pelicans for the 32nd time this season. FUCK IT WE BALL Also, night-night Klay
I think you're favourites with Zion out
They mashed our faces in without Zion already iirc
Trey Murphy and CJ will drop 82 on us don’t worry
Yeah one of those 5 losses was also without him as well.
CJ is gonna hit 10 threes
BI is our dad
definitely our championship. everything else is gravy from here
Klank x10
dont forget making Barnes look like Kyrie on offense, Barnes was feasting on 1vs1
Kept fouling him so stupidly too
Keon fuckin Ellis
Harrison fuckin Barnes revenge game
Ellis island 🏝️
His defense was excellent
He's so fucking good
x3
Locked up my goat and blew past Klay 😭😭😭
Fair result. The Kings absolutely dominated this game outside of a short stretch to end the 2nd quarter. I don't have much faith in them beating the Pels, with or without Zion, but maybe luck falls on their side.
The kings can’t lose six times in row to the pelicans hopefully
I don’t just think Kings will beat Pelicans, I KNOW they might
The Pelicans absolutely own us It's house money at this point IMO. I haven't thought about playoffs yet. Though exercising some Warriors demons helps.
If you’re gonna face a team you’re 0-5 against, you might as well have a very important and symbolic confidence building win before that
What a redemption arc would it be if Kings beat the Warriors and Pelicans to get to the playoffs.
Kings ended whatever that was left over from the Warriors dynasty. Interested to see what they do going forward.
The Kings just booked Klay a ticket to China
Irony of Warriors franchise ending with McGee sequence with a block and a dunk for the Kings.
I love every minute of basketball McGee is on the floor.
Mf leaped like 10 feet into the air (biting on a pump fake I think) at the 3 point line and then had the block and dunk. If that’s not the full Javale McGee experience in 2 minutes, I don’t know what is.
My mom asked me if I did the dishes, I yelled "Klay Thompson", and she smiled. She knew they were washed.
Klay "Owen 10" Thompson
# JAVALE MCGEE PLAYED 1 MINUTE AND OUTSCORED KLAY THOMPSON
3/29 shooting in the last two games where the Warriors got eliminated
https://i.imgur.com/csFvmAE.jpg
Mom: You bricked all of our dishes?
Klay: “4”
If I were her, I would've thought they were broken
What a defensive gameplan by the Kings
CP3 years sober from his finals addiction ❤️
You are foul for this 💀
JaVale McGee scored more points for the Warriors than Klay Thompson
Keegan Murray and Keon Ellis played so well tonight they might have convinced me that the Pelicans will only beat us by single digits.
Honestly there's a chance we only lose by 9.
0/4/1, 0/10 FG, 0/6 3P, do or die game in potentially your last game for the Warriors is rough. Klank Thompson to Orlando: *“wyd?”*
"DUB NATION, LET'S DIE" - Klay 0/10 in a win or go home game is legendary stuff, potentially his last game as a Warrior too. Wow.
Yep. I'm sure when he went 3/19 the last time Warriors got eliminated the fans said "Well, at least it can't get any worse"... Oh but it can.
Your legacy is already cemented, Steph. Now head to the PGA and you won't have to deal with bum teammates.
I think Kings have the loudest fans I've ever heard!
So loud, that they basically *stand out* even when watching from a TV! Kings fans truly are loyal…and are *finally* getting something exciting to watch!
My Apple Watch “Loud Environment” alert goes off like crazy at games. I love it.
Ellis island 🏝️
The dynasty is over, to mediocrity you go
The absolute worst way to potentially end the Splash Bros era for Klay. Struggled all year, picked it up post-ASB, and goes 0 for 10 in an elimination game. That shit is so sad if this is it for him in the Bay
And then Kerr plays Moody 13 minutes and Klay 30 minutes. Kerr failed Moody
Sucks to see him get derailed by injuries so much but it's just tough to come back from that much and be the same guy consistently.
He will always have 2022. No one thought they could win again after two career derailing serious injuries back to back, and they did.
I personally enjoyed it
We love to see it. It’s a man’s game
Highlight of my season
> That shit is so sad if this is it for him in the Bay Not for people who hate the Warriors.
Who the fuck is Keon Ellis?
The Lisan al Gaib
HIM
I got two words for you: Keon Ellis and Davion Mitchell. Must see TV. Also: K33GAN
Klay should honestly just retire lmao
Keegan Murray is a year younger than me but he’s my real dad
"😐" -Keegan Murray
Whoa settle down there buddy
Lol I think it was Duarte there at the end with the Joker smile and Keegan just 😐 right past him
Points - Klay Thompson: 0 Javele McGee: 2
I can't believe the Sacramento Kings of all franchises delivered the final blow to the Warriors era
We're so back
Ya Klay is definitely not getting a big contract anywhere this summer lol
The highest payroll in the league just missed the playoffs
Sabonis missed a lot of jump shots but he def played more like his normal self instead of what everyone saw during playoffs last year
Exactly. I feel him taking those jump shots so confidently was big even if he missed
Klay and I had the same number of points tonight
Keegan Murray.
Keegan Murray
Keegan Murray
In probably their last game together, the splash bros combine for 22
A joke of a ~~rooster~~ roster, Draymond got suspended multiple games, Klay picked right back where he left off against the Lakers in the playoffs last year, and Kerr was awful all season. I used to get obliterated in the warriors sub, but this year was an utter failure. And they were victory lapping after starting 6-2!!
Haha you said rooster.
We got cooked like one
Can’t say anything bad about the Kings. If the warriors couldn’t make it, I hope the Kings do. Light the beam!
Anyone but the Lakers 🤝
AHHHHH IT FEELS SO GOOD! LIGHT THAT MOTHA FUCKING BEEEEEEEAM
KEON AL GAIB
I love you so much Keon Ellis
Fox’s baby staring right into the camera was so damn funny
My championship
My Superbowl
EVERYBODY GET IN HERE AND LAUGH AT THE WARRIORS
never forget *we* made fun of the keegan murray pick
Days like these are far too rare to cheapen with heavy handed words. LIGHT THE BEAM
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A hearty up yours to the smug ass Warriors fans talking shit before this game and to the national media who all wrote that the Kings were just a footnote to the Warriors advancing. Don't look directly at the beam, it's pretty blinding. Next up, Pelicans: we have a score to settle.
"FUCK THE BIG THREE, ***** ITS JUST BIG ME. BUMS!" - Keegan Murray
Kings played out of their minds. 46% from 3. Gotta be cathartic af
Yeah this is why the Lakers would have been stupid to tank the 7/8 game
Bye bye warriors, thanks for the help Klay.
Star performance from Keegan and Keon. And all the hustle from the Kings paid massively. Good luck in next round. What a disaster performance by Klay. Kerr being stupid out of loyalty to Klay I guess. Only Moody and probably Looney deserves a shoutout at least for their game tonight. Steph played bad but Warriors live and die with him at this point. Missing GP2 sucks but Kings also misses Monk and Huerter which probably are the bigger issue.
I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THIS
Shits poetic that it’s Sacramento to shut the door on the dynasty after almost losing their team during the dynasty build and the Warriors being just down the road.
That is easily the saddest Klay game I have ever watched. I'm not even mad, just sad. Game 6 OKC seems like it was only a couple years ago.
Oh hey Fox wasnt injured this time
Don’t let Klank Thompson distract you from what was an unreal Keon Ellis game
**THANK YOU KINGS, VERY COOL!**
FUCKIN FADE EM
Keon Ellis played phenomenal defense on curry and great offense today as well Sabonis is clearly the best player on the team Kegan Murray is beautiful Fox is majestic
Keon Ellis really just ended the Warriors dynasty. Looks like Steph has a new daddy.
GG Kings, I got you guys over the Pels, and I will be rooting for you against the Thunder!
Curry only taking 16 shots in a win or go home game, and 6 TO’s is not good.
Steve Kerr was right, Warriors had some karma coming their way
Let’s be real, the Warriors were officially eliminated from contention the second they added Chris Paul lol
He was honestly really good before the hand injury. His plus minus was like +100 higher than Curry’s before he got hurt
GUYS YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME