Green believes that because of Thompson's initial knee injury in 2019, and Achilles injury a year later, his former teammate never had the opportunity to truly prove his capabilities as a team's No. 1 option. "So now, in turn, everyone wants to talk like 'Oh, you couldn't do it' like he wasn't going to," Green added. "But I study the history, I do the research, and I'm going to appreciate and watch and know the Klay Thompson of 2017, '18, '19, he was capable. "He just never got the opportunity to do the contractual obligations, and once he fulfilled his contractual obligations, he faced an ACL and Achilles in back-to-back years and missed two-and-a-half years of basketball."
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