NBA News: Klay Thompson Issues Bold Statement About Warriors' Immediate Future

Klay Thompson is not a believer that the Golden State Warriors’ time as a dynasty in the NBA is truly over.

“We can be one of the greatest dynasties—and it’s not over. I truly believe that,” Thompson told Sports Illustrated’s Howard Beck.

In the mid-2010s, the Warriors built a vaunted and record-breaking squad anchored by Thompson, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green that teams around the league strove to defeat but failed to do so on most nights.

However, that core is not getting any younger as Curry is 33 years old at this point and both Thompson and Green are 31.

After Thompson went down with his first major injury (an ACL tear in June 2019), fans and observers were questioning whether the time has come to completely blow it up in San Francisco.

For the first time in years, the Warriors were at the bottom of the Western Conference standings and it netted them the second overall draft pick in the 2019 NBA Draft which turned into athletic 7-footer James Wiseman.

Warriors general manager Bob Myers and owner Joe Lacob have too much pride in their handiwork to call it quits especially when Thompson suffered a setback in his road to recovery with a second injury (an Achilles tear in November 2020) and Curry breaking his hand.

They held the 14th pick in the 2020 NBA draft and selected 3-and-D winger Moses Moody before trading with the Minnesota Timberwolves to receive the No. 7 pick in the same draft, which became Jonathan Kuminga.

This was a major twist of fate for the Warriors as it allowed them to draft their next potential championship core, while the first trio is still on the roster.

It is a rare opportunity that the Warriors have no chances of conceding and Thompson is in full awareness of the facts.

The Warriors made it clear this season that they are pining for an NBA Finals appearance thanks to the development of guys like Jordan Poole, Gary Payton II and Juan Toscano-Anderson, with former No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins finally finding his place in the league.

Thompson acknowledged that him, Curry and Green are facing the forever-undefeated opponent of Father Time, and there will come a time that the three Warriors stars will lose that battle and have to eventually retire.

“Banners are timeless. Records are meant to be broken. Individual statistics are meant to be topped. But banners hang forever. I try to tell these young guys that no one cares what your stats are by the end of season. The goal of the game is to win the game,” Thompson stated.