{"id":864922,"date":"2026-08-22T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:58:09","slug":"klay-thompson-chose-the-mavs-over-the-lakers-for-an-interesting-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864922\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson chose the Mavs over the Lakers for an interesting reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Back in the summer of 2024, Thompson\u2019s representatives had discussions with the Lakers about him winding up there. It would have made sense on several levels. Thompson has deep ties to Los Angeles. He spent much of his childhood in the city and still owns a home there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">But one of the reasons Thompson chose the Mavericks over the Lakers was that he had concerns about Davis\u2019 availability, a source with knowledge of his thinking said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in the summer of 2024, Thompson\u2019s representatives had discussions with the Lakers about him winding up there.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,172267,590,85],"class_list":["post-864922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lakers-rumors","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}