Warriors season review: Klay Thompson

Warriors season review:

In the wake of the Warriors’ second NBA title in three years, The

Shooting guard

Dimensions: 6-foot-7, 215 pounds

2016-17 statistics: 22.3 points and 3.7 rebounds in 34 minutes per game

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about Kevin Durant signing with Golden State, Thompson was quoted saying, “I’m not sacrificing (expletive), because my game isn’t changing.”

The only adjustment Thompson made playing alongside Durant was forgoing attempts he shouldn’t take, anyway.

To average a career-high 22.3 points per game, Thompson shot 46.8 percent from the field and 41.4 percent from three-point range.

A master at moving away from the ball, he led the league with 11.5 points on catch-and-shoot opportunities.

Thompson needed only 88.4 seconds of possession, 52 touches, 33 shots and 11 dribbles to score 60 points in 29 minutes in a Dec. 5 win over Indiana.

, Thompson was the first player since the shot clock was introduced in 1954 to score 60 points in fewer than 30 minutes.

In the playoffs, he toiled through perhaps the most extended shooting slump of his career.

Thompson averaged only 15 points in the postseason on 39.7 percent shooting.

In the West semifinals, while taking turns on Utah’s Gordon Hayward and Joe Johnson, Thompson was relentless fighting through screens and putting hands on them along the arc.

In the Warriors’ sweep of San Antonio in the Western Conference finals, he helped hold Patty Mills to 7.8 points on 24.3 percent shooting in 30.3 minutes per game.

Thompson is one of only five Warriors players who won’t be free agents Saturday.

[...] he isn’t immune from offseason chatter.

Thompson has long said that he would rather stick with Golden State than become the No. 1 option on a lesser team.

Because even though he might be the fourth biggest name on his own team, he appreciates being part of a group that could go down as one of the best clubs in NBA history.

Matt Barnes

Connor Letourneau is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.