Steve Kerr debunks Klay Thompson trade rumor
Yet again, the two-time All-Star guard’s name surfaced in the NBA trade-rumor mill — this time courtesy of former Warriors assistant coach Brian Scalabrine — but the talk was quickly shot down, if not outright mocked, by Golden State head coach Steve Kerr.
Speaking on Sirius XM NBA Radio, Scalabrine — a former player and now a Boston Celtics television analyst — said Monday that he’d heard over the weekend that the Warriors, in a possible search for a big man, would be willing to part with Thompson.
Thompson got off to a slow start this season — shooting 19.6 percent from beyond the arc and scoring more than 18 points only once in his first six games.
The trade, of course, didn’t happen and Thompson won a championship with the Warriors that season — and then Love did the same thing with the Cavs last summer, coming from 3-1 down to beat Golden State in an NBA Finals rematch.
In March 2014, then-Warriors head coach Mark Jackson reassigned Scalabrine, an assistant coach, to the team’s NBA Development League affiliate in Santa Cruz because of what Jackson called a “difference in philosophies.”
Over their four-game winning streak, they have outscored opponents by a combined 68 points.
[...] Golden State’s most daunting road swing yet looms.