You thought Klay Thompson’s scintillating 41-point, season-sustaining, pulse-pounding playoff game against Oklahoma City in May 2016 was a performance for the ages?
Well it was. He canned 11 three-pointers and scored 19 points in the fourth quarter as the Warriors extended their postseason with a 108-101 victory.
You just didn’t know the half of it.
Recently, in a lengthy and revealing SLAM magazine story, Thompson acknowledged that his explosive performance that night was dedicated to his friend’s recently deceased dog.
I’m not crying. I just got something in my eye.
A few days before that fateful contest, one of Thompson’s high school buddies, Philippe Zarif, suffered a heart-rending turn of events, according to SLAM.