The Young Man & the Three<\/a>\u201d on September 4, Thompson admitted that James\u2019 battles with the Warriors factored into why he began to hate Golden\u00a0 State.<\/p>\n\u201cI was a LeBron fan, I\u2019m not gonna lie,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI didn\u2019t dislike the Warriors until \u2014 I actually liked the Warriors until they had to start playing LeBron. And then I\u2019m like, \u2018Okay, now I hate the Warriors.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Warriors had a heated rivalry during James\u2019 second tenure with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 2015 to 2018. The two teams went up against each other in the NBA Finals four consecutive times, with the Warriors winning three of the four matchups.<\/p>\n
Much of that was due to Kevin Durant\u2019s addition in 2016, which made the Warriors basically unbeatable during that time span. Before that addition, the two teams were neck and neck. There\u2019s no telling what would have happened if Durant had gone elsewhere. Durant\u2019s decision could have very well stopped the Warriors and Cavaliers rivalry in 2016.<\/p>\n
Regardless, any fan of James would have hated the Warriors as they consistently got in the way of him winning more titles in the 2010s. Plus, they only did this because they may have assembled the very best basketball team this world has ever seen.<\/p>\n
Plus, the Warriors may add to that hate for Thompson now, as they are still trying to win titles in the 2020s while they still have Stephen Curry with his prime winding down. The Warriors already got in the way of the Rockets\u2019 playoff intentions this year and have every intention of loading up for next year\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are young, but made the biggest splash of the offseason by, coincidentally enough, acquiring Durant from the Phoenix Suns. If Durant proves to be the missing piece the Rockets needed all this time, Thompson could avenge James losing all these years by getting the one player who basically stopped his favorite player from winning more championships all those years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors have ousted the Houston Rockets four times in the last decade, including their most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-138001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}