{"id":909992,"date":"2019-06-14T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=909992"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:37:58","slug":"bob-myers-addresses-klay-thompsons-impending-free-agency-value-to-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/bob-myers-addresses-klay-thompsons-impending-free-agency-value-to-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Myers addresses Klay Thompson&#8217;s impending free agency, value to Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson may be undervalued by some, but Warriors president Bob Myers knows exactly how important the team&#8217;s star guard is to their success.<\/p>\n<p>That was evident in Game 3 of the NBA Finals &#8212; which Thompson missed due to injury. It was also made clear in the waning minutes of the third quarter in Game 6, when he suffered a torn ACL, and the Warriors offense looked like a shell of its former self without him out there.<\/p>\n<p>As such, it appears re-signing Thompson is near the top of the team&#8217;s free-agency wish list, which Myers said to reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Myers on KD and Klay offers: \u201cThose guys are highly important to us and deserve of being rewarded in the right manner. &#8230; Try to keep those guys within these walls as best you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThompsonScribe\/status\/1139637359320788993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bob Myers said he talked to Klay Thompson this morning, and Thompson said he didn&#39;t sleep much last night.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Con_Chron\/status\/1139636906860269568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Myers also spoke about how challenging this season has been, with all the injuries the team has had to fight through.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bob Myers: &quot;This year more than any other, tested the fabric of our team. &#8230; Short of winning a championship, this year I might&#39;ve been the proudest of our resolve.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Con_Chron\/status\/1139638017130319873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the next few weeks unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson may be undervalued by some, but Warriors president Bob Myers knows exactly how important the team&#8217;s star guard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":909993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639074,230171385],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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