On Paul George’s podcast, he recapped the incredible performance.

Even though Stephen Curry, another “Splash Brother” of Klay Thompson, is the best shooter of all time, there may never be a more terrifying sight than what happens when Thompson gets going. In 2015, the three-time All-Star stunned the Sacramento Kings by scoring an NBA record 37 points in a quarter. A year later, he accomplished something equally remarkable.

On December 5, 2016, during the Golden State Warriors’ game against Paul George and the Indiana Pacers, Klay Thompson scored a career-high 60 points off just 11 dribbles. Thompson described his remarkable feat in a recent podcast P appearance. He completed all of that in just three quarters of an hour.

Thompson remarked, “Just one of those days where everything felt great.” “It’s difficult to score forty goals in the first half. However, I was playing within the offensive and receiving compliments the entire evening. 

Thompson went on, “Zaza (Pachulia) setting those dirty picks, getting me wide open.” For once, Raymond (Green) was actually putting it in the pocket, exactly on the seams. With the gravitas that Curry and KD (Kevin Durant) brought to the squad, I was getting a lot of stares.

Thompson said, “Hopefully, I can pull it off once more.” “But I’m not sure if I’ll be able to surpass it in 29 minutes. That may be one of those things that withstands the test of time.”

That evening, Klay shot 21–33 from the field and 8–14 from beyond the arc. He scored 17 points in the opening quarter, 40 at the half, and 60 at the conclusion of the third. If Thompson had been let to continue playing after that, head coach Steve Kerr might have seen him surpass Kobe Bryant’s record of 81 points in a game.

But by the end of the third quarter, the Warriors were up 116-83, and Kerr decided to bench all of his players. They would ultimately prevail 142-106 in that game, so there was no reason to run the danger of getting hurt in an attempt to catch up to Kobe.

When hot, Gilbert Arenas selected Klay Thompson as the league’s most dangerous player.

Ironically, Gilbert Arenas recently cited this very game as the reason he believes Klay to be the most dangerous player in the league when he’s on fire. Arenas made the point that Thompson doesn’t always need the ball in his hands to have these kinds of evenings. He claimed that the fact that Klay can’t be doubled since he is always moving and emerging off screens makes him more dangerous.

Even with Curry’s incredible talent, he can never match Klay’s heat. This 60-point game, the 37-point quarter, and, to a lesser extent, his record-breaking performance with 14 three-pointers in 2018 demonstrate why Klay Thompson is so devastating when he plays at his peak. Even though it seems like those days are gone now, Thompson still has plenty of energy left in him after averaging 21.9 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 0.7 steals, and 0.4 blocks per game the previous season.

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