Despite playing on different teams, the iconic trio of Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson still make time to hang out together.
Even after Thompson’s departure from the Warriors.
ESPN’s Anthony Slater and Tim MacMahon published a story on Thursday about Thompson’s departure from Golden State and his relationship with his former teammates today and revealed that Curry, Green, Warriors assistant coach Chris DeMarco and some of Thompson’s friends all met up at the veteran guard’s Dallas home on Feb. 11 for a private dinner.
Curry, according to ESPN, decided in advance that he would spend the night at Thompson’s house before the Warriors and Mavericks faced off the following day. The visit, perhaps, was needed after Thompson’s seemingly icy departure from Golden State last summer.
“I was like, I’m making sure I get over there,” Curry told ESPN.
“Man. I had to move to Texas to get this guy to come over to my house,” Thompson joked.
The mood throughout the evening, according to ESPN, was light, and featured plenty of games, conversations and Thompson showing his former teammates around his new neighborhood.
“We didn’t need to address any feelings or his departure or anything like that,” Green told ESPN. “It was friends kicking it. He’s showing us, ‘Yeah, this is my life here.’
“But you could tell he’s trying to come to grips with it. It was odd for him.”
The dinner seemingly was a cathartic experience for Curry, who called it an “acknowledgement of the finality.”
“I didn’t go there for that,” Curry explained to ESPN. “But that’s what it turned into.”
“You don’t spend 12 years with your friends and then that just fades,” Thompson said. “That was a really fun moment of last season, [which] was pretty up and down.”
Thompson and the Mavericks then beat the Warriors 111-107 the following day before Golden State got its revenge 10 days later in a 126-102 win over Dallas at Chase Center to cap a four-game season series split.
Curry, Green and the Warriors once again will make the trip back to Dallas on Christmas Day in the first of three games against the former Splash Brother this season.
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