Foxworth is with us as well.

Wendy's here.

Brian Windhorse to talk more hoop and we got to start with the big news that came from Dallas.

Yes.

Klay Thompson has agreed on a three-year 50 million dollar contract with the Mavericks.

Klay leaves the Warriors at the 13th season for championships.

Now, we'll look to help Luka Doncic and the Mavs get back to the NBA Finals and Klay could be exactly what the Mavs need.

He has eight seasons of shooting over 40% from three.

That trails his former splash brother Steph for the most such seasons in NBA history.

Meanwhile, you know, Luka has never had a teammate shoot over 40% in a season in his career and the Mavericks a wild stat looking to improve on their woeful shooting, of course from the finals.

Okay, that won't exist after this.

Well, we got to talk about this, you know, Wendy, I guess

I'll start with you because how did you in your opinion, Klay

Thompson signing with let's say the Mavericks over the Lakers when LeBron called him personally, the Lakers were support Lee reportedly offering him a similar financial package as well.

I actually probably don't think it was that close for Klay.

I mean, I know that the Lakers are a big draw because there is hometown team, but they're not comparable to where the Mavericks are from winning from competing for championships.

The Mavericks are right there on the doorstep and they were here in LA with Nikko Harris and their general manager with

Jason kid their head coach and they presented him the very clear plan of how they were going to use them.

And as you mentioned, there is clearly a hole exactly where he would fit in as a spot of three-point shooter and above the break three-point shooter, especially where they were he could really thrive and what they've already got going.

And here's the thing like the Lakers are still a bit of a mystery JJ Redick.

We're not exactly sure what his system is going to look like how he's going to operate Klay knew for months.

He was leaving the Warriors and he got to spend the whole spring basically shopping.

He watched Dallas win three playoff series and go to the finals total recruiting pitch for him whether they knew it or not.

So the fact that the state income tax was a was a factor making this actually worth a little bit more money than the

Lakers offer.

I guess I'll throw that on the pile, but I think this was probably a pretty clean decision that it took clay, you know, he wanted to hear the Lakers out and you know, get past the heartstrings there.

But Dallas makes the most sense for him in a vacuum.

And when you look at this think Klay made the right decision choosing Luka over LeBron and Lakers.

Yeah.

I mean Brian just summed it up.

The Lakers are not a team.

That's a serious championship contender and the Mazard just in the finals, right?

I know we'd love to have the Lakers be in the finals.

I know our whole network would be thrilled about that.

They won one playoff game.

Then there really were not competitive overall in that series.

Whereas you look at what Dallas did Dallas beat Oklahoma City.

They beat Minnesota.

They actually get a game of Boston the finals.

They've got Luka Doncic in his prime entering his prime going to be the favorite going into next season to win MVP.

This is the much better situation for Klay Thompson to go into and to me this was a no-brainer forget the state tax stuff forget all of that Klay Thompson goes to Dallas a team where he could potentially win like Allen's been talking the last couple days about the pettiness factor for Klay and wanted to prove what he can do.

He's walking into a team where they said to him.

Hey, you're going to be our starting shooting guard are starting small forward.

You're going to play next to Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving still trying to recover from this 40 point 40% three-point stat.

We just saw Klay is going to I wouldn't be shocked if he leads the league in three-point shooting percentages here because he's going to get so many wide open three-point catch and shoot shots compared to what he's used to and he's going to have this guaranteed starting spot on a team that just went to the finals where he could potentially show the

Warriors.

He can be a contributor deep into the playoffs who went to play for the Lakers.

Yeah, his dad's doing radio commentary.

It's the team he grew up watching to be in Southern

California.

He'd also maybe be home for the playoffs like that's not what he's looking to do.

He's looking to show he can be there late into the spring.

That's a really salient point because I don't think many people realize for the Lakers just one top six finish in the

West last 12 seasons and bow.

Give me that stat by the way.

What does clay make the Mavericks your opinion?

Well, they already were a championship contender because they got to the finals, right?

So that they already are that what he does is he gets them even closer to that.

He gives them what they're missing.

We saw in the finals that they struggle from three shooting under 32% from downtown.

And when you have a guy like Luke and also Kyrie, you got to have four spaces, but he also brings experience.

So you get that part of it as well.

Somebody that has played in the biggest stages and has performed in the biggest stages as well.

You have that but I go back to also saying the decision that

Klay Thompson made.

It's really it benefits both.

They needed him for all the reasons why I just laid out.

He needed them because revenge success is the best revenge.

And that's what he's also got approved to the Golden State

Warriors that you sent me away.

I'm the first one to leave.

So that means I'm done.

I got nothing less that I can give you.

Well, watch me win a championship with them while you continue to dismantle this Dynasty.

You forget, you forget the Mavericks only shot 32% in the finals.

32% from three in the final.

This is a guy who shot 39% on this season.

41% in the second half of the season.

A nine attempts a game to yeah.

He's getting them up and he's making a lot of them.

You're not going to have to kick out guys.

Perfect for you're not going to have more open shots than playing with defensively.

Do you have concerns because it's Luka defending on the perimeter.

They'll find him Kyrie on the perimeter.

You got Gaffer and then guys not what you got.

I mean if you I do think if you want to do take the other side of this for a second.

So I do think we haven't talked about it enough.

They're replacing Derrick Jones jr.

The guy who was guarding Jason Tatum and she goes Alexander and at times Anthony Edwards in the playoffs and replace him with Klay Thompson.

Yeah, I do think there are some concerns if you're putting clay into the starting lineup, which I think we all expect them to do at the defensive end of the court.

Putting a lot on Derrick Lively the young house second-year center for the Mavs.

I know they think he can be Rudy Gobert in the future or you know, an elite, you know defensive player of the year type guy.

It's a lot of pressure on him.

So I do think there are some potential concerns.

But again, I'm honestly stunned by this 40 point 40% stat.

I had no idea that was the case and clay is going to I think completely light it up from a shooting perspective.

I've never shared this before out of respect to clay.

I getting off elevator Christmas Day.

This is on Christmas Day of this past year.

I get off the elevator and I see Claremont clay.

What's up?

So what's up?

I'm like, hey man, keep your mentals, right?

He's like man.

Tell him to pay me my money.

This was on Christmas Day.

So on Christmas Day, a guy that had won four championships and I don't give a damn what anybody says how much money they gave him over the years because he turned their franchise around that franchises were billions of dollars not just because of Steph.

It's also because of clay.

They changed the game.

It wasn't just Steph changing the game.

It was Steph and clay in that backcourt.

So I say that but he has a right to be mad.

Right to be mad.

So I guess it begs the question now and did the Warriors mismanage this whole clay Thompson thing.

They did.

Yeah, and they did for this reason the business wise you understand that all good things come to an end and we knew that eventually it was going to have to come to an end.

But when you give Draymond Green 100 million dollars and then you tell clay Thompson, we're going to be half that.

What are you telling clay Thompson?

Draymond Green is the guy that punched a teammate.

Draymond Green is the guy that does things that gets himself in trouble and does have an adverse effect on his team.

That happens a lot.

We all know that Draymond Green brings a lot of good things to the team.

But among those three guys that have been part of the core of this championship, this Dynasty run that they have had.

Draymond Green's been the guy that has gotten in the most trouble.

They still paid him.

Clay Thompson.

What has he been but other than a great teammate, the good soldier, the guy that has been next to Steph Curry, whatever it takes.

I will fill in the blanks.

He's made big shots.

He's had big moments.

He went through two years of going through injuries that he had to battle through a lot of emotions just to get himself back on the court.

And you tell him you're not worth as much as the other guys.

You're the one that's going to go first.

Yeah, he takes that personal.

And so this whole thing to me, the dis this the way this thing has fallen apart.

You could argue that it started with the punch that Draymond

Green through to Jordan pool and how they handle all that going forward.

And then deciding that Clay, you're the one that we're not going to, we're not going to show you the same financial love that we showed the other guys.

I mean, they offered Clay Thompson the same amount of money per year that they offered all those other guys at the end of the day.

And Draymond Green, while I don't disagree thing you said about his conduct at the end of the day, he got to free agency and got the contract at the market determined.

He should get right.

They offered Clay Thompson an extension at the same number.

They signed Draymond Green and in free agency.

Clay was disrespected by it and said no.

And then he signed for 50% less.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's petty.

That's the petty.

I take the 50 mil and I'll go to Dallas and win a championship the same money.

You were going to give me but the annual is not what it's about.

It's the hundred million guaranteed.

It's guaranteed hundred that everybody else was Oh Wiggins, you give it to him.

Me.

I'm the one.

I'm the one that's got to be out and I'm the guy that did everything right.

I've never been.

I've never been a problem child here at all.

I'm the first one that gets kicked out of here.

That's why he's upset.

I don't blame Andrew Wiggins had the greatest series of his life in the finals.

Won them a title as that word got extent.

Well, I'm listen again.

He got but he got extended off of playing the best ever played in the finals.

Clay Thompson got offered 24 million dollars a year for two years as an extension for okay, and then he got significantly less than that in free agency.

So I don't think the work like yes, you could say the Warriors should give him four years a hundred million dollars just because but the Warriors offered him to me more than a fair amount of money.

And at the end of the day, Clay didn't like it and decided to do something else.

I think that what you're talking about is business and I completely understand the business side of it, right?

It's unemotional.

But when you have what they had, which is special, you know,

Zach Lowe talked about how we should take a moment and just appreciate what we've had in the Warriors because that was special.

That was a great team to watch.

But so the emotion part of it is understandable where you're

Clay Thompson and you're like, I'm the one I'm the one that's leaving first.

I've done everything right and I'm the one you're kicking out first.

That's why the question was did they mismanage it?

I would say the answer is no, they mismanaged it and that sometimes things don't end the way everybody wants them to in a fairytale setting.

This is the NBA.

It's a business and I would say everybody conducted their business fine here and that's just how things go.

Sometimes when do your thoughts on this?

Yeah, two things.

One, they made six finals in a nine-year span and won four of them.

That's a tremendous run that everybody should be proud of and be congratulated for.

The reason that it's how you don't see that very often is because the rules and reality of, you know, human nature make it very difficult for that to happen.