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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