

But you know, when you’re in the championship and you’re playing in front of our fans, your adrenaline is so high that you kind of disregard anything that makes sense, and running around on a torn ACL doesn’t make very good sense. “I thought I might have sprained something in my knee. “I never had such a severe injury, so I didn’t think it was that serious,” Klay Thompson said on Sunday.

Ultimately, he was pulled from the game and was not cleared to return. When he initially suffered the injury, Thompson tried to return, making his two free throws. On Sunday, however, the questions came back again.

Klay Thompson and the Warriors have spent months talking about his return, how hard he’s worked to get back, and how thankful they are to have him. Throughout the day, multiple members of the Warriors were asked about the ‘three-year anniversary’ of Thompson’s injury back in the 2019 NBA Finals. Monday, June 13th, is not only the date of Game 5, but apparently also makes three years to the day that Thompson suffered his brutal ACL injury that ended his season. As Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors prepared for Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics, a lot of the talk at Sunday’s practice was about Klay Thompson, and the ACL injury suffered three years ago.
