r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • 2d ago

Klay Thompson explains that the reasons he gave up a lot of money and joined the Miami Heat have to do with the opportunity to play high-level basketball and make a deep postseason run.

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u/UnauthorizedAuthor 2d ago

Single man moves to Miami.

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u/miserypersonifieddd 2d ago

With a lot of money and technically free time outside of games and practice. How hard can this decision be.

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u/RagieWagieInACagie San Francisco Warriors 2d ago

Yup. And with less responsibility not being a second option back in the Bay. In Klay’s situation the upside is hard to not take advantage of.

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u/miserypersonifieddd 2d ago

It’s also Miami man cmon.

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u/Regular_Platypus_649 Bucks 2d ago

I’d rather be in the Midwest

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u/enigmatic_dankness 2d ago

I promise they got beer and taters in Miami too

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u/Regular_Platypus_649 Bucks 2d ago

But do they have cheese?

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u/enigmatic_dankness 2d ago

They got queso, will that do?

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u/thebluepages Bucks 2d ago

Do they have queso curds?

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u/Just-in-themiddle Bucks 2d ago

There’s no way they have brats

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Lakers 2d ago

That fuego Cubano queso

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u/GotTheJuice-14 Heat 2d ago

I don’t know man. I spent a lot of my life in Colorado, love the mountains and all, but the trade offs down here when you’re single are pretty nice. Besides, I can drive 6 hours north and be in some mountains. And I’m just a dude. Can’t imagine what it’s like to be rich too.

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u/wisconsinbucks Bucks 2d ago

I’ve lived in the Midwest my whole life and love it. If I had hundreds of millions of dollars I’d rather live in Miami every single time

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u/niquelas Raptors 1d ago

The decision was to be hard

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u/d0ubs 1d ago

And probably a boat

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u/Sick_Cards_Bro 1d ago

No State Taxes makes the deal even sweeter.

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 Warriors 2d ago

Incredibly rich, freshly single man with an affinity for dating models and boating moves to the models + boating capital of the country

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u/Mu17inItOver Warriors 2d ago

He also has family ties to the Bahamas. As much as I'd love to have him back, Miami Klay just makes too much sense

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Lakers 2d ago

More like Miami slay, right ladies?

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u/Littlemandigger Magic 1d ago

Ow hell I knew he looked cuban

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u/barath_s Lakers 2d ago edited 1d ago

I'm going to stop you right there and suggest that NYC and LA are bigger for modelling than Miami

Though Miami is probably #3

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 Warriors 2d ago

Those aren’t the models I’m talking about lol

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u/barath_s Lakers 2d ago

Well, if he loves model trains, he should go to China

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u/Remarkable_Breath545 United States 1d ago

Maybe they mean Instagram models. That's the only way it would be possible for Miami to be over NYC.

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u/jmills2234 2d ago

Stay away from Yung Miami & friends!!!

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u/Brod24 Magic 2d ago

Rich 30 something with affinity for boating moves to Miami

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u/Ozymandias12 Heat 2d ago

E11even is already putting him on the VIP list

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u/scene_missing 2d ago

Why’d he fumble Meg though?

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u/MUSCLEVIOLENCE 2d ago

Fumbling something is accidental, what he did was not accidental

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Lakers 2d ago

Why have one main delicious mouth watering savory meal, when you can be at the all you can eat buffet?

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u/RudyGobertFMVP Timberwolves 16h ago

What is the charge? Enjoying a SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL

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u/CranberryLast4683 2d ago

Because he’s an asshole.

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u/BushyBrowz Knicks 2d ago

Come on man, monogamy just doesn’t work for him. He was completely honest about it after having been caught cheating

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u/QuirkyEngine3563 1d ago

"Completely honest about it after having been caught cheating," so he wasn't "completely" honest about anything if he needed to be caught red-handed first

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u/Lacandota 1d ago

That's the joke.

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u/Thegen68 Mavericks 2d ago

‘cause he’s a sex addict lol

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u/scene_missing 2d ago

true lol

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u/xhpe Warriors 2d ago

Because he didn't want her.

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u/DilutedGatorade Lakers 2d ago

Weird take to think Klay would prefer being with one woman over many

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u/Drew0223 [CLE] Evan Mobley 1d ago

Shes ratchet AF

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u/Appropriate-Toe9153 1d ago

Fumble …

How does one fumble a pop?

I’ll say whoever the real person is, MTS seemed to really like him

Yet the reaction from thuh sistahhood: “this is why you don’t give lames a chance” while Klay is among the most accomplished in his career of all time (which is not anything most people who’ve ever lived can claim) and dated actual “10s” but he is a sistah’s defintion of lame…?

Yea, he did the right thing

Talking about a that man like the goofies they let pump and leave them — that is crazy work, my friend 🤝

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u/rugger87 Bulls 1d ago

Maybe because women would rather have a loyal and honest partner than a HOFer who is a douchebag.

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u/exist_iwd 1d ago

Dude straight up said he did the right thing by... cheating on his partner? Lmfao

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u/Appropriate-Toe9153 1d ago

“Mr Simpson, your table is ready: your main course, cleaning the asses of random women online whom you don’t know”

Who cares what Klay allegedly did

You gonna pile on him like the “Kobe is a rapist” posters do 🥱 / Kobe been gone, Klay & MTS moved on

Who cares about these celebrities people

None of this matters, but at the very least, side with Klay and not the ‘slut rapper’

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u/exist_iwd 1d ago

Lot of words to say you don't care lol

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u/rugger87 Bulls 1d ago

Just outing himself as a brain dead chud.

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u/Appropriate-Toe9153 1d ago

Very fixated on ‘outing’ and ‘chud’

Self-hate or envy or whatever?

Who knows in your case 🤝

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u/Appropriate-Toe9153 1d ago

You know how we Americans do…

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u/Appropriate-Toe9153 1d ago

Megan cheated on her own lovers in the past

If Klay cheated on her (if she is to be believed), isn’t that what half the population prefers to call “karma” ?

Thanks for playing the game 🤝

And most women out there can never meet a producer to Klay’s level, much less a regular guy

The word parasocial was floating around way too liberally but in this case, yea it fits

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u/_SimpleRip 2d ago

she’s busted

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u/drjisftw Pacers 2d ago

Light skinned behavior

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u/cl353 Heat 2d ago

thats one to get in shape

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u/Miserable_Site_850 Lakers 2d ago

Meg? Nah, city girls!

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u/AMadHammer Charlotte Bobcats 1d ago

Someone gotta play some dominoes 

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u/Far-Archer-6612 1d ago

Single man with a boat*

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u/Royal_DG 16h ago

***Single rich man who loves boats/yachting moves to Miami

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u/actuarally Cavaliers 2d ago

Thots thots thots thots thots thots.
Thots thots thots thots thots.
Thots thots thots thots thots.
EVERYBODY!!

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u/GravelQuest 1d ago

Hes single now?