The expected 'resurrection' of Klay Thompson: 941 days and two very serious injuries later, returns with the Warriors

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When

played his last game, the world was different.

It has been 941 days since that sixth game of the NBA Finals in which the Warriors forward tore his knee ligaments in the ring lost to the Raptors.

A pandemic and a rupture of the Achilles later, when in November 2020 he finalized his return, one of the best shooters in history starred in his particular resurrection.

It was tonight at the Chase Center in San Francisco, the majestic Warriors pavilion that wasn't even ready then. And against a rival that was also a wink of fate, the Cavaliers, those against whom he lived four consecutive Finals from 2015 to 2018, something unprecedented in the American professional leagues. As was planned since Saturday when he pronounced the long-awaited "the wait is over", Klay was the starter and only played X minutes. About to turn 32, his integration into the rotation of the second best team in the West under

will be progressive and for now he will not play the

.

That June 13, 2019, Klay,

took two free throws with his left knee broken. Nobody could think that it would take two and a half years to return to the courts, to re-form a couple with

the inexhaustible

. After an exhaustive rehabilitation, in November 2020 everything was blown up when in a preparation game at the facilities of the

, in Los Angeles, the right Achilles broke. Perhaps the two most feared injuries for basketball players. Followed A drama that put everything into question.

Klay started over. He got into the hands of

, the former Canadian footballer who is now the Warriors' Director of Sports Medicine, and they hatched a plan as the team went through a couple of seasons fallow. Now, after a very cautious process, Thompson, the man who holds the record for points in a single quarter (37), the guy who was able to score 60 points in a game playing less than 30 minutes, returns when the San Francisco team They knock on the ring door again. Led by the best Curry and

and with the contribution of guys who have been knowing how to fit in (

he is also out due to injury), they remain at the top of the West (29 wins in 38 games) with the Suns and are in all the pools for the title with the Bucks and Nets.

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