Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
[ Last week’s Fact or Fiction: Karl-Anthony Towns, the forgotten star ]
Klay Thompson is the coolest basketball player alive
NBA stars have bounced from team to team in pursuit of happiness both on and off the court, only to find the discontentment that led them from their last stop has followed them to their latest one. Like any of us, they cannot merely rely on outside influences to provide the fulfillment they seek. Peace comes from within.
There is no better example of this than Klay Thompson’s 941-day odyssey between basketball games.
I will not pretend to know how difficult the past two-plus years have been on Thompson, whose ACL and Achilles injuries had kept him from the game he loves since robbing him of a title shot, but the combination of calmness, joy and appreciation…
