Warriors coach Steve Kerr said Klay Thompson's departure to Dallas made sense and was 'what's right for him right now.'
Steve Kerr thanks Klay Thompson for his time with the Warriors and explains why he understood the guard's decision to leave. "What he did for the team, the organization, for the Bay Area, for me personally -- the relationship that we had, all the incredible success but more importantly just going through it all together, it has been so meaningful and so amazing," said Kerr, who coached Thompson for 10 of his 13 seasons with Golden State.
But after a difficult season that saw him being pulled from the starting lineup for a time, Thompson decided it was time to make a change. Kerr said he'd talked with Thompson about his decision and that he"completely understands" where he was coming from. Kerr is intimately familiar with the process of change from his playing days, having seen up close how the Michael Jordan-ledteams in the late 1990s came to an end. He said that personal history helped give him context for the current state of the Warriors, and he admitted that he never felt like the team was going to have a storybook ending.
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