Klay Thompson admits he regrets ‘four rings’ taunt towards Devin Booker: ‘That didn’t age well for me’

Golden State Warriors ahead Klay Thompson is the newest participant to sit down down with Los Angeles Clippers celebrity Paul George on his podcast, “Podcast P.” During his look, Thompson admitted that he regrets taunting Devin Booker all the way through a loss to the Phoenix Suns final season. 

The Oct. 25 match-up was once simply the fourth recreation of the season for each golf equipment, but it surely had a playoff-like surroundings. In the 3rd quarter, Thompson began jawing with Booker, many times reminding him that he had 4 championships to his identify. The two ultimately got here face-to-face, which led to double technicals. A couple of mins later, Thompson gained every other technical for shoving Mikal Bridges, which earned him the primary ejection of his profession. 

While the sport was once shut when Thompson was once ejected, the Suns later pulled away for a 134-105 win. Thompson completed with two issues on 1-of-8 from the sphere, and was once soundly outplayed by means of Booker, who completed with 34 issues and 7 assists. 

“Yeah, I was in my feelings though and Book was busting my ass that day,” Thompson instructed George. “I used to be no longer the place I had to be. God. You know stuff does not age well and that didn’t age well for me. I do not wish to be flexing 4 rings, bro, like everyone know that. That’s on Wikipedia. My recreation wasn’t the place it was once at and all of us get insecure now and then.

“I’m man enough to admit that we all have our moments of weakness. I’m not really proud of that one. Cause I see Devin Booker and I should be like, man, I should be proud of this young man. The work he’s put in. He survived a tough regime in Phoenix where everyone getting traded, he’s playing for a new coach every year but now he’s a franchise player cause he just kept working. So, I admire the guys who have work ethic like that, you know?”

The admire is mutual. After that recreation, Booker stated that the alternate didn’t trade his angle towards Thompson. 

“I love Klay Thompson,” Booker said. “I have from the beginning. From the draft, coming out, I said I wanted to be Klay Thompson. That doesn’t excuse us from competing against each other and talking a little mess with each other. I had fun with it. Big fan of his and his competitive nature, and that’s that.”

As Booker’s quote from the instant displays, this incident wasn’t a large deal. Still, it was once lovely cool to peer Thompson being this candid in an interview and admit that he wasn’t happy with how he treated that second. We in most cases do not see that from avid gamers, particularly whilst they are nonetheless energetic.