On July 2, Beijing time, another heavyweight player in the NBA free market confirmed his next home, and Warriors free agent Klay Thompson officially left the team and joined the Mavericks in a sign-and-trade. This is still a three-way deal, in order to make Klay get his wish, the Warriors also chose to help him, using a sign-and-trade method to allow him to get more salary, while the Warriors themselves only got 2 second-round picks.
Klay Thompson became a free agent this summer, and the two sides eventually decided to break up due to unpleasant contract extension talks with the Warriors, but it didn't completely tear up the face. Among them, the Warriors are also willing to help Klay complete the sign-and-trade method, which means that he can join some teams that have no salary space, and finally he chose the Mavericks, and the two sides signed a three-year, $50 million contract, the salary is not as good as the Warriors provided before, but Klay himself wants to leave.
In the end, the Warriors reached a three-way deal, in which the Mavericks sent Josh Green to make the deal happen, and the Warriors did not choose to take over Green, after all, he was on a long-term contract, and then sent to the Hornets, and the Warriors only got two second-round picks and a trade exception. Clearly, the Warriors weren't going to get anything out of Klay's sign-and-trade deal, which is why they turned down the Lakers to offer Russell.
In this way, Klay left the Warriors after 13 years, and the two sides still left many good moments, where they won four championship trophies together. Now Klay is also going to start a new journey, he will join forces with Doncic and Irving to continue to attack the championship, the Mavericks also want Klay to help Eastern Europe, they just ended the playoffs, all the way to the finals, but unfortunately the gap in the lineup is still a little big, and finally failed to lift the championship trophy.
As the Klay deal came to an end, the Lakers once again became a companion, they were once very close to Klay, and offered a four-year, $80 million contract, but Klay himself did not want to join the Lakers, and finally broke the cooperation between the two sides. In this way, the Lakers did not get anything in the 2 days after the free market opened, and the next goal was to complete the contract extension with James. Before the free market opened, the Lakers were in high spirits, but they didn't expect to get nothing in the end, and it became a joke again.