Klay Thompson signed with Dallas to contend. After a 56-loss season, what's next?

DALLAS — When Klay Thompson agreed to come to the Dallas Mavericks in July 2024, he was viewed as the missing piece of a championship puzzle.Nico Harrison, the Mavericks’ general manager at the time, said that the Mavericks were “a Klay Thompson away” from beating the Boston Celtics in the 2024 NBA Finals. The thinking was that Thompson would spend his mid-30s knocking down wide-open 3s that Luka Dončić served to him on a silver platter.Advertisement