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The Golden State Warriors received some extremely terrible news hours before the NBA draft.
According to several reports, Warriors guard Klay Thompson, who missed the entire 2019/20 season with a torn ACL, suffered a lower leg injury in training on Wednesday afternoon.
Warriors star Klay Thompson suffered an apparent lower leg injury today and is undergoing tests to determine severity, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 18, 2020
Thompson's possible injury involves his lower right leg today, source tells ESPN. Again, his ACL had been on his left knee. https://t.co/V5JTcG9pBy
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 18, 2020
Klay Thompson was unable to place weight on his lower leg injury leaving the gym today, sources said. Everyone is hoping for the best. https://t.co/kcxYJczNmX
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 18, 2020
Warriors beat reporter Monte Pool says he’s been told Klay’s injury “looked bad” but everyone around him is awaiting the results of his medical exams before confirming anything.
Klay Thompson's leg injury looked bad, according to two sources, but neither was ready assume catastrophic. The Warriors have significant decisions to make tonight/this week, so fingers are crossed as they wait.
— Monte Poole (@MontePooleNBCS) November 18, 2020
Exchanged texts with Mychal Thompson. He did not shed any light on Klay's status but the tone of his reply was quite sober for Mychal.
— Monte Poole (@MontePooleNBCS) November 19, 2020
Update: Marc Spears confirmed Thompson’s injury didn’t look good.
An NBA source in the know about Klay Thompson’s injury simply answered to me: “Not good.”
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) November 19, 2020
Losing Thompson for a significant period of time would not only be terrible for him but for the team as well.