Injuries to Irving, Anthony Davis, Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II have placed a particular burden on four-time NBA champion Klay Thompson, one of the Mavs' biggest acquisitions of the offseason.

However, the five-time All-Star also knows that nothing in the NBA is certain, but according to his father, never in a million years did he think his first season in Dallas would end this way. "He thought with Luka and Kyrie,

The Dallas Mavericks that Klay Thompson joined during the offseason barely resemble the team that he is currently playing for.