{"id":872859,"date":"2026-10-31T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/872859\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T22:00:17","slug":"klay-thompson-looks-like-himself-again-as-heat-get-set-for-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/872859\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson looks like himself again as Heat get set for road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Klay Thompson hit seven 3-pointers during the Heat\u2019s win over the Pacers on Friday.<\/p>\n

MIAMI (AP) \u2013 Klay Thompson is going back to California. His shooting groove evidently is making the trip.<\/p>\n

Thompson\u2019s slow start to the season seems to be over, after he made seven 3-pointers \u2013 five of them coming in a seven-minute barrage of the third quarter that blew the game open \u2013 and helped the Miami Heat beat the Indiana Pacers 145-125 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

He was shooting 32% from beyond the arc in his first five games with the Heat. A 7-for-12 night later, he\u2019s up to 39%.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the best start to the season,\u201d Thompson said after the 54th instance of him making at least seven 3-pointers in a regular-season game. \u201cBut to come out here and play with poise and confidence, I knew I was due for a night like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s early in the season and stats get skewed with small sample sizes, but that run in the third quarter was something Miami had been waiting to see.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an exponential possibility factor for this team and you can see why,\u201d Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. \u201cHe always will provide the gravity, but he is the definition of ignitable. When he gets on a roll like that, he is really tough to stop. We\u2019ve all seen it or been on the other end of it. But it was fun seeing it in a Miami Heat jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was more succinct.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like throwing a rock into the ocean,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to watch. It\u2019s fun to witness greatness. He\u2019s one of the best shooters of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Thompson found his form just in time, too.<\/p>\n

The Heat start a five-game road trip on Monday, the first four of those games to be played in Thompson\u2019s beloved California. It starts with games against the Lakers and Clippers \u2013 meaning he\u2019ll be back in his hometown of Los Angeles, the place where he fell in love with basketball in large part because his father, Mychal, was playing for the Lakers.<\/p>\n

The trip then continues in Golden State, the team that Thompson won four titles with when he was \u201cSplash Brothers\u201d with Warriors sharpshooter Stephen Curry. And from there the Heat will move on to Sacramento, a city where Thompson won a high school state title in 2008 by making seven 3s \u2013 a California boys state final record.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love going to LA,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI love seeing my parents, my brothers, my niece and nephew. \u2026 And then, you go up the interstate and go the Bay and all the memories I was able to make up there are second to none. I\u2019ll see so many guys I grew up with, and I want to beat them bad; we\u2019re all still very competitive in our mid-30s and I love to go compete against them because they\u2019re some of my best friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t wait to go back and see familiar faces \u2013 not just the players, but the training staff, the equipment managers, the people who work the stands and the concessions, the custodians. I have friends for life in the Bay and LA, so it\u2019s always special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson hit seven 3-pointers during the Heat\u2019s win over the Pacers on Friday. MIAMI (AP) \u2013 Klay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,96388,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":["post-872859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-basketball","tag-heat","tag-klay-thompson-miami-heat","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117537775521629920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872859","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=872859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}