The NBA is again, and so is the pettiness.
Throughout Klay Thompson‘s scorching debut in a Mavericks uniform Thursday night time, the workforce’s X account trolled the Warriors, seeming to pose the query of if Thompson and Luka Doncic had been the brand new Splash Brothers.
The submit appeared instantly after Doncic arrange Thompson for a 3, the latter’s fifth make of the night time from deep. Lower than two minutes later, Doncic would discover the veteran sharpshooter for an additional three because the Mavs blew the sport open en path to a 120-109 win.
Thompson’s six threes for the night time meant he set a brand new franchise report for many threes by a Mavericks debutant.
Some Warriors followers took difficulty with the submit, seeing as Thompson and Stephen Curry earned the moniker of the Splash Brothers for his or her a few years of splashing threes in Golden State.
Nonetheless, on the floor, it isn’t precisely sacrilegious to discuss with Thompson and Doncic as the brand new splash brothers. The Slovenian made the second-most threes within the league final yr with 284 behind solely Curry, who sank 357 threes in 74 video games. Thompson was fourth on the record with 268 threes in 77 video games in his final season as a Warrior.
As such, Thompson and Doncic might mix to shoot over 600 threes of their first season as Mavericks teammates. Not too shabby.
Thompson could not cease raving about his new teammate after Thursday’s win, anticipating that he will likely be getting “nice seems” from deep all yr as a result of gravity created by Doncic.
“What an unimaginable expertise,” Thompson mentioned of Doncic, via ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. “I imply, it does not make any sense, as a result of what we’re taught rising up so far as being one of the best basketball participant is you bought to leap the best, you bought to run the quickest, however in some way Luka defies that. He performs at his personal velocity and manipulates the sport pretty much as good as I’ve ever seen anybody do it. And it is nice to be a recipient of that and get nice seems.”
It is price noting that Thursday wasn’t the primary occasion of Dallas trolling its Western Convention foe. Quickly after Thompson joined them as a free agent, the Mavericks invoked the “Hello, Klay Thompson” phrase to announce his signing by way of X, which was a reference to Curry’s son, Canon, famously shouting the phrase at Thompson after a recreation in Dec. 2022.
Thompson will face his former workforce for the first time on Nov. 12 when he returns to San Francisco for an away recreation. It’ll undoubtedly be an emotional night time for Thompson, his former teammates and the Warriors fanbase.
