Late in the Golden State Warriors win over the Indiana Pacers, star Warriors guard Klay Thompson suffered an ankle injury while on the court attempting to thwart a Pacers comeback attempt.
Thompson dropped 39 points on the night including 10 three-pointers but his night ended early before he could see the final buzzer after he suffered an ankle injury with under a minute to go.
The Warriors were up by as many as 30 points at one point but the Pacers roared back against the Warriors second unit. The comeback attempt by the Pacers forced the Warriors bench to get off the court and put the starters back in the game and then Thompson was injured. It was an injury that could have happened anytime but when it did happen, a member of the Warriors bench thought it was the bench to blame for the injury.
Following from Diamond Leung of Inside Bay Area.
“Guys go down, that’s on you,” Warriors reserve point guard Shaun Livingston said. “To me, that’s on the second unit. That was my fault. I take it personal. I feel like the starters did their job. They should have rested that fourth quarter, and it’s on us to hold the fort, and we didn’t do that as well tonight.”
Livingston told Thompson after the game he needed to be better in the fourth.
“We’ve still got to play better than that,” Thompson said. “It’s one thing if you don’t make shots, but it’s one thing to let up on the defensive end. We’ll get better from it.
“It happens. The other night, our second unit bailed us out in Brooklyn (extending a fourth-quarter lead). Tonight, it was the opposite. … I told him not to worry about it because they were great for us in Brooklyn the other night, and it’s a team game.”
Klay said after the game that the injury isn’t serious, the x-rays came back negative and he should be okay this weekend. Shaun, Klay isn’t worried about it and neither should you.
