{"id":21406,"date":"2019-06-03T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T02:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2019-06-04T08:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:47:24","slug":"klay-thompson-questionable-for-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/06\/03\/klay-thompson-questionable-for-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Questionable for Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thompkl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klay Thompson<\/a><\/strong> has been ruled &#8220;questionable&#8221; to play in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. He injured his hamstring late in Game 2 after leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/golden-state-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> with 25 points.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Klay Thompson Questionable for Game 3 With Hamstring Injury<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>On Monday, an MRI confirmed Thompson suffered a hamstring strain, and will likely be questionable for Game 3, as reported by Shams Charania of <em>The Athletic<\/em>. The star shooting guard will test his body over the next couple days in hopes to play Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MRI on Golden State Warriors All-Star Klay Thompson confirmed a hamstring strain and he will likely be questionable for Game 3, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthleticNBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Stadium<\/a>. Thompson will test body over next two days with hope to play Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1135724087123292160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thompson, a three-time champion with the Golden State Warriors, has never missed a playoff game. If his streak ends, it could spell disaster for a broken down Warriors team. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Durant<\/a><\/strong> has yet to be cleared to play while fellow Finals MVP\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/iguodan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andre Iguodala<\/a><\/strong> has been banged up. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/couside01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeMarcus Cousins<\/a><\/strong> has played only 36 minutes in two games since returning from injury, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/looneke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevon Looney<\/a><\/strong> suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2019\/06\/04\/kevon-looney-out-indefinitely\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fractured collar bone in Game 2<\/a> and is out indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is averaging 23 points per game in the NBA Finals this season\u00a0and has knocked down 7-of-12 triples in the series. He was arguably the best Warrior on the floor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2019\/06\/02\/nba-finals-game-2-recap-the-third-quarter-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">majority of Game 2<\/a> until his injury late in the game. He scored 11 of the first 13 points for Golden State and carried that momentum through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The injury occurred when Thompson came down awkwardly on his right leg after a missed 3-point attempt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lg0L3NoShmU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Warriors will be back home at Oracle Arena for Game 3 after stealing a road game at Toronto. The series sits tied at a game apiece. If the Warriors can overcome the serious injury bug they&#8217;ve caught, they will surely go down in history as one of the greatest teams of all time. Thompson is one of the biggest reasons the team has had the success they have.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is an all-time great competitor. Even with the injury, don&#8217;t count him out for Game 3 just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"gepExdhjSodIq_fGmScbhg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7;text-decoration: none;font-weight: normal !important;border: none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1052723002\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:&#8217;gepExdhjSodIq_fGmScbhg&#8217;,sig:&#8217;CsGtg08HG1tHYUCV-_PBXvoblLzsjl9rg1XiTGfQrFs=&#8217;,w:&#8217;594px&#8217;,h:&#8217;396px&#8217;,items:&#8217;1052723002&#8242;,caption: true ,tld:&#8217;com&#8217;,is360: false })});<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klay Thompson has been ruled &#8220;questionable&#8221; to play in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. He injured his hamstring late in Game 2 after leading the Golden State Warriors with 25 points. Klay Thompson Questionable for Game 3 With Hamstring Injury On Monday, an MRI confirmed Thompson suffered a hamstring strain, and will likely be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3009,"featured_media":21422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,25,62,3],"tags":[182,70,407],"class_list":["post-21406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-warriors","category-nba","category-news","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-klay-thompson","tag-nba-finals"],"modified_by":"Chase Gage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}