Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, teammates on the beloved “We Believe” Warriors, are convinced that their former squad will desperately miss Klay Thompson through the first half of the season.
“I love Steph (Curry) … But that team is a different team without Klay Thompson,” Jackson says of the Golden State shooting guard who will miss at least half of the season with a knee injury. “I’m sorry. People underrate Klay Thompson, don’t speak about him enough, don’t give him his props … Without Klay, it’s going to be different.”
Speaking on their new Showtime video podcast “All the Smoke,” Jackson and Barnes acknowledged that Thompson is one of the best two-way players in the NBA and that the Warriors are likely to struggle without him.