On January 10, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season is in full swing. In today's Western Focus game, the Lakers will play the Grizzlies at home. Prior to this game, the Lakers were 6th in the West with a record of 21 wins and 19 losses, and the Grizzlies were 4th in the West with 27 wins and 14 losses.
In today's game, Thompson was given the opportunity to start. In order to welcome Thompson's return, Warriors fans came to the scene early. During the warm-up session, Thompson's every touch of the ball attracted warm cheers and applause from the fans, and Thompson also waved to the fans.
In the introduction of the players, the atmosphere reached another climax, Thompson as the last starter to appear, which was cheered by the fans on the spot. The Warriors' current home, chase center, was officially opened for the 2019-20 season, and Thompson had never played in the arena before. According to Warriors coach Kerr, he won't have special demands on Thompson today.
After the game began, Green fouled the Cavaliers after completing the jump and was then substituted. He will miss the rest of today's game due to ill health, but he still participated in the jumping session in order to participate in Thompson's comeback. Not long after the start, Thompson received a pass from Wiggins, broke through the layup, and hit his first goal since his comeback!
After Thompson hit his first goal, fans at the Chase Center fell into a frenzied boil. However, in the subsequent offensive round, Thompson first deflected a three-pointer at the top of the arc, and then made a mistake with Curry. It can be seen that Thompson still needs time to adjust to the state. In the first quarter, Thompson played 4 minutes, scoring 2 points on 1 of 5 shooting before being replaced by Kerr.
In the second quarter of the game, Thompson was replaced again, and he staged a wonderful dunk. Then he received a pass from Porter and hit a three-point shot at 45 degrees on the left, which was his first three-pointer since his comeback, and the atmosphere of the scene came to the climax again! It is worth mentioning that with this goal, Thompson's career total score exceeded the 12,000-point mark.
So far in his career, the 31-year-old Thompson has won three NBA championships (2015, 2017, 2018), two NBA All-Team 3 teams, 1 NBA Defensive Second Team, 5 NBA All-Star, and 1 NBA Three-Point Contest Champion. He averaged 19.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, shooting 45.9% from the field and 41.9% from three-point range!