{"id":768526,"date":"2022-12-14T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=768526"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:30:45","slug":"klay-thompson-becomes-the-13th-nba-player-to-knock-down-2k-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/klay-thompson-becomes-the-13th-nba-player-to-knock-down-2k-threes\/","title":{"rendered":"Klay Thompson Becomes the 13th NBA Player to Knock Down 2K Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Golden+state+warriors+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Golden+state+warriors+\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> shooting guard <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Klay+Thompson+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Klay+Thompson+\" target=\"_blank\">Klay Thompson<\/a> has just notched himself another spot in NBA history. In Wednesday night&#8217;s 128-111 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Bucks\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Bucks\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, Thompson had only 14 points shooting just 6-16 from the field and 2-7 shooting from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the two threes that Thompson hit moved him into some very elite NBA company. Coming off a recent game where he had just moved up to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/lucky-13s-klay-thompson-climbs-up-all-time-made-three-pointers-list-in-warriors-loss\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/lucky-13s-klay-thompson-climbs-up-all-time-made-three-pointers-list-in-warriors-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\">13th in the NBA\u2019s all-time made three-pointers list<\/a>, Thompson is also the 13th NBA player ever to make 2,000 career three-pointers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 13th player in NBA history to make 2,000 3-pointers\u2026<br><br>Congrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlayThompson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KlayThompson<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EIz7dLiUpQ\">pic.twitter.com\/EIz7dLiUpQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA History (@NBAHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAHistory\/status\/1603061362183241728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson now joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Stephen+Curry\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Stephen+Curry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stephen Curry<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Ray+Allen\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Ray+Allen\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Allen<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Reggie+miller\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Reggie+miller\" target=\"_blank\">Reggie Miller<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=James+Harden+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=James+Harden+\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+korver+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+korver+\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Korver<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Vince+Carter\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Vince+Carter\" target=\"_blank\">Vince Carter<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jason+Terry\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jason+Terry\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Terry<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jamal+Crawford\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Jamal+Crawford\" target=\"_blank\">Jamal Crawford<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Damian+Lillard\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Damian+Lillard\" target=\"_blank\">Damian Lillard<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=lebron+James+\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=lebron+James+\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+Lowry\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+Lowry\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Lowry<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Paul+pierce\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Paul+pierce\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Pierce<\/a> as the only NBA players ever to accomplish such a milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Becoming a part of such an elite group of sharpshooters must feel great to Thompson after battling his way back to form after suffering an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-achilles-tendon\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-achilles-tendon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Achilles injury<\/a> in 2020 after just returning from an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-out-for-remainder-of-game-6\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-out-for-remainder-of-game-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACL injury<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25 Klay Thompson has the green light \ud83d\udd25<br><br>He&#39;s up to 32 PTS and we&#39;re still in Q3 on ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b2TYvjudri\">pic.twitter.com\/b2TYvjudri<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1601777387758555138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This 2023 season has been sort of a &#8220;revenge tour&#8221; for Thompson, as he has trying to block out the noise and prove to the doubters that he\u2019s still got it. Admittedly Thompson has come out and said that comments about his game <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-hurt-hearing-comments-that-his-game-is-slipping\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-hurt-hearing-comments-that-his-game-is-slipping\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;slipping<\/a>&#8221; have hurt, but he knows that he <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-addresses-the-latest-backlash-towards-him-and-the-warriors\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/klay-thompson-addresses-the-latest-backlash-towards-him-and-the-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t please everybody<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is a great career moment for Thompson, he and the Warriors look to get back on the winning track Thursday against the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Indiana+Pacers\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Indiana+Pacers\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson has just notched himself another spot in NBA history. In Wednesday night&#8217;s 128-111 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, Thompson had only 14 points shooting just 6-16 from the field and 2-7 shooting from beyond the arc. However, the two threes that Thompson hit moved him into some very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":768535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62702,18,63826,62493],"tags":[8383,116,99,445,700,748,1707,329,477,13004,13007,63442,427,366,610,254,353],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-768526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-state-warriors","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-damian-lillard","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-jamal-crawford","tag-james-harden","tag-jason-terry","tag-klay-thompson","tag-kyle-korver","tag-kyle-lowry","tag-lebron-james","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba-all-time-list","tag-paul-pierce","tag-ray-allen","tag-reggie-miller","tag-stephen-curry","tag-vince-carter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768539,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768526\/revisions\/768539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768526"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=768526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}