{"id":85071,"date":"2025-11-23T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-crossfire-after-game\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:04:38","slug":"klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-crossfire-after-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-crossfire-after-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Responds to Ja Morant: Crossfire After Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Klay Thompson Questions Ja Morant&#8217;s Actions After the Game<\/h2>\n\nIn a tense encounter, Klay Thompson, a player for the Dallas Mavericks, expressed his frustration towards Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies after Saturday night&#8217;s game.\n\nMorant, who did not play due to an injury, verbally confronted Thompson after the final buzzer, which forced security members and coaches to intervene to prevent the situation from escalating.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a funny guy. He has a lot to say all the time, especially for a guy who rarely takes responsibility,&#8221; Thompson commented.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Klay Thompson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe rivalry between Thompson and Morant seems to have its roots in the 2022 playoffs, where Thompson and the Golden State Warriors eliminated the Grizzlies.\n\nDuring the game, Thompson also had altercations with other Grizzlies players, including Santi Aldama and Vince Williams Jr., who received technical fouls.\n\nAfter the game, Morant used a post-game interview to throw a jab at Thompson, who had scored 22 points in the loss but missed a crucial three-pointer at the end.\n\nThompson criticized Morant&#8217;s comments, calling them a &#8220;lack of intellectual depth&#8221; and alluding to the off-court issues, suspensions, and injuries that have affected Morant&#8217;s career.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1123%2Fr1579427_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Klay Thompson\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nDescription: Klay Thompson, Mavericks player, was involved in several confrontations with Grizzlies players during Saturday&#8217;s game.\n\nThompson also mentioned Aldama&#8217;s blatant absence, comparing it to &#8220;dirty&#8221; actions by the Grizzlies in the 2022 playoff series.\n\nThompson, who has taken on a reserve role in Dallas and has struggled this season, expressed his respect for the &#8220;Grit &#8216;n Grind&#8221; era Grizzlies, but not for the more recent Memphis players.\n\nThe Mavericks player concluded by saying that he respects the players who back up their words with their game, highlighting that &#8220;talk is cheap&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson Questions Ja Morant&#8217;s Actions After the Game In a tense encounter, Klay Thompson, a player for the Dallas Mavericks, expressed his frustration towards Ja Morant of the Memphis Grizzlies after Saturday night&#8217;s game. Morant, who did not play due to an injury, verbally confronted Thompson after the final buzzer, which forced security members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[580,9515,10586,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-85071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-grizzlies","9":"tag-ja-morant","10":"tag-klay-thompson","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}