Klay Thompson unlikely to perform preseason activity against Lakers

SAN FRANCISCO — The Warriors play the Lakers in their third preseason video game on Sunday. Prospects are, Klay Thompson will not engage in.

Thompson practiced throughout Tuesday’s light-weight follow but most likely will not participate in the team scrimmage on Thursday. If he does not, there is a excellent possibility Thompson will sit out for Sunday’s match, head coach Steve Kerr stated.

The Warriors coaching staff members is using a “really cautious and conservative” tactic to integrating Thompson back into motion a 12 months right after his extensive recovery from back again-to-back again ACL and Achilles tears, Kerr said.

Thompson did not enjoy in possibly of the preseason games in Japan and unveiled that he hadn’t been playing pick-up in the course of the offseason due to the fact of a “mental block,” Thompson tore his Achilles all through a recreation of choose-up during the 2020 offseason as he was recovering from his ACL tear sustained through the 2019 NBA Finals.

Right after missing 2 1/2 yrs, Thompson designed his huge return to the courtroom final January in time for their playoff operate. Thompson had his initially considerably typical offseason considering the fact that 2019, but the education workers is still proceeding with caution with him. The Japan online games pressured the group to have a truncated, rigorous initial few days of exercise which posed to some degree of an unorthodox training camp to throw Thompson back into.

“Just coming off the two years with the injuries, this is seriously distinctive to perform a recreation following 3 1/2 tactics so we’re just becoming cautious and trying to do the sensible issue,” Kerr said in Japan.

Right after the Lakers stop by on Sunday, the Warriors have two a lot more preseason online games at dwelling from the Portland Trailblazers that Tuesday and Denver Nuggets on Oct. 14. They perform the Lakers once again in the frequent period opener on Oct. 18.