{"id":869138,"date":"2026-08-24T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869138\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:18:09","slug":"klay-thompson-lands-with-heat-after-clearing-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869138\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson lands with Heat after clearing waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/klay-thompson\/457611\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/klay-thompson\/457611\" target=\"_blank\">Klay Thompson<\/a> officially agreed to a two-year deal to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/miami-heat\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/miami-heat\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> after clearing waivers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal, first reported by ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania on Friday, is for $13 million and includes a player option in the second season, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thompson, 36, became available after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> bought out the final year of his contract worth $17.5 million. Thompson had informed the Mavericks, who went 26-56 last year, that he wanted to play for a contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The prolific shooter finds himself in an ideal spot with the Heat, who made Thompson their top target after pulling off the blockbuster trade for Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thompson is fourth on the all-time 3-pointers made list and heads into next season 74 3s behind Hall of Famer Ray Allen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thompson spent the first 13 seasons of his career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/golden-state-warriors\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/golden-state-warriors\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> before arriving in Dallas in a sign-and-trade deal in the summer of 2024. He was a five-time All-Star and four-time champion during his Golden State tenure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN\u2019s Tim MacMahon contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson officially agreed to a two-year deal to join Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Miami Heat after clearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,77896,301803,459,82],"class_list":["post-869138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golden-state-warriors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-9","tag-klay-thompson-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-457611","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}