I remember a Bill Simmons pod a few years ago where Bill said “Klay Thompson has one of the highest approval ratings” of any NBA player in the league.
Now he’s pretty hated on social media, reddit, etc.
Before you say his play has dropped off this year, (it has) he was pretty in-line with his career averages last year, and people were still kind of shitting on him last year too.
Dude never deserved the hype. Dude was making all-star games year after year over guys like Dame while putting up 20/3/3 (albeit with good defense). I never understood it, but I’m glad people are starting to come around.
He got old
He was an all-timer in his prime, but he was never really the same after all of the injuries. His offense held on for a while, but the defense was gone and now his shooting is really slipping
He’s been acting cocky and talking crap on the way down
He just got one of them faces
being worse after two major leg injuries and talking a lot of shit
reddit just blindly follows the narrative. klay is still great if you watch the games
For one thing, he isn’t nearly as good of a player anymore. He’s also had streaks of being a bit of a jackass and comes off as somewhat cocky
He got old and has an ego.
Before his injury he was an elite 2 way wing, sharpshooter, had 3 championships, was always a member of Team USA, and was soft spoken.
It happens to a lot of great players when they decline due to age. People start questioning them and it affects them because they are human.