{"id":85864,"date":"2025-11-24T05:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-after-game-tension-in-the-nba\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:05:54","slug":"klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-after-game-tension-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/klay-thompson-responds-to-ja-morant-after-game-tension-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Responds to Ja Morant After Game: Tension in the NBA!"},"content":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson, Mavericks player, expressed his frustration with Ja Morant, after Saturday&#8217;s game against the Grizzlies, where the latter took the victory 102-96.\n\nMorant, absent due to a calf injury, exchanged words with Thompson at the end of the game, generating tension between both players.\n\nThe rivalry between Thompson and Morant dates back to the 2022 playoffs, when Thompson&#8217;s Warriors eliminated the Grizzlies, on their way to their NBA championship.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He&#8217;s a funny guy. He has a lot to say all the time, especially for a guy who rarely takes responsibility.<\/p><cite>Klay Thompson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDuring the game, Thompson was involved in several confrontations with Grizzlies players, including Santi Aldama and Vince Williams Jr.\n\nAfter the game, Morant disparaged Thompson during an on-court interview, referring to him as &#8220;the shooter wasn&#8217;t the one from Golden State,&#8221; after the Mavericks&#8217; defeat.\n\nThompson called Morant&#8217;s comments &#8220;without intelligent depth&#8221;, alluding to the off-court problems, suspensions, and injuries that have affected Morant&#8217;s career.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I was really just talking, and he&#8217;s been talking a lot. It&#8217;s funny to talk when you&#8217;re on the bench. It&#8217;s like the story of his career so far, leaving us wanting more.<\/p><cite>Klay Thompson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMorant has been suspended in the last three seasons for different reasons.\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=\"Mavs guard Klay Thompson was involved in multiple confrontations with Grizzlies players during Saturday&#039;s game.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nThompson also criticized Aldama&#8217;s blatant foul on Cooper Flagg, recalling the Grizzlies&#8217; actions in the 2022 playoffs.\n\nThompson, who has accepted a bench 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\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They just talk a lot. They&#8217;ve always talked a lot. And they never really backed it up either, so I don&#8217;t really respect that. I respect the guys who back up the talk with the game because talk is cheap.<\/p><cite>Klay Thompson<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson, Mavericks player, expressed his frustration with Ja Morant, after Saturday&#8217;s game against the Grizzlies, where the latter took the victory 102-96. Morant, absent due to a calf injury, exchanged words with Thompson at the end of the game, generating tension between both players. The rivalry between Thompson and Morant dates back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[580,9515,10586,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-85864","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\/85864","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=85864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}