{"id":705519,"date":"2026-04-08T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:24:16","slug":"klay-thompson-finally-letting-frustrations-with-dallas-mavericks-season-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/705519\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Finally Letting Frustrations With Dallas Mavericks’ Season Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have just three games remaining in their shockingly bad 2025-26 campaign. Even the most pessimistic outlook didn’t have the Mavericks sitting at 25-54. Many thought this team could contend for a playoff spot, but they’ve been eliminated from the postseason for weeks now. <\/p>\n

It’s safe to say that playing meaningless basketball in March and April is not what Klay Thompson signed up for in the 2024 offseason. He thought he’d be the beneficiary of open looks from Luka Doncic and Klay Thompson, but Doncic was traded a few months later, and Irving has missed most of Thompson’s tenure with the Mavs with a torn ACL. Understandably, Klay Thompson is a little frustrated, even if he won’t outwardly say it. <\/p>\n

In a game against the San Antonio Spurs in February, Thompson had a four-minute stretch where he scored 14 points. According to Christian Clark of The Athletic<\/a>, Thompson turned to the Spurs’ bench and said, “It doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019re tanking.”<\/p>\n

Thompson’s frustration was even more apparent in Tuesday night’s loss to the LA Clippers. He struggled in that game, shooting 4\/17 from the floor and 1\/10 from three while scoring 11 points, but it’s tough for him to get open looks with the team’s current guard rotation. He was still missing some open shots, including a layup, but it’s no surprise that he has been disappointed. In fact, near the end of the game, you could see just how disappointed he was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks have just three games remaining in their shockingly bad 2025-26 campaign. Even the most pessimistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-705519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116370018520200292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}