Years ago, Blake Anderson found himself outside the Golden State Warriors’ 2017 championship afterparty with his brother and no real way in. Then Klay Thompson rolled up and changed the whole night.
Blake Anderson shares an incredible story of how Klay Thompson pulled up in an SUV, saved his night, and got him and his brother into the Warriors' official championship after-party.
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Anderson recently told the story while speaking with actor Ike Barinholtz. He said he and his brother had gone to the series-clinching game, then heard about the team’s “official” afterparty afterward. Anderson couldn’t get his brother inside on his own, but Thompson stepped in and made it happen.
“So we're walking, I'm like, ‘D**n, dude.' starting to get an Uber, and then all of a sudden, we hear this, ‘Blake! Blake!' Turn around, and it's this giant black SUV, and in the window, hanging out of it is Klay Thompson, dude,” he recalled.
Thompson invited Anderson and his brother into the car, and Anderson said he even got to touch Thompson’s hat, which was “still wet with champagne.” For Anderson and his brother, it was the kind of night that sticks forever.
That 2017 title came during a huge Warriors run. After blowing a 3-1 lead to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals the year before, Golden State came back and won the championship again, adding Kevin Durant to a team that had already taken the title in 2015.
The Warriors beat the Cavaliers in five games in the 2017 NBA Finals. A year later, they swept Cleveland, and Durant was again named Finals MVP.
Thompson was part of four championships with Golden State, and the Warriors added another one after the Durant era in 2022. Thompson left the Warriors in 2024. In the 2025-26 season, he played 69 games, started eight, and averaged 11.7 points per game, his lowest mark ever.
During his Warriors years, Thompson formed one half of the “Splash Brothers” with Stephen Curry, a duo that became the league’s most dangerous long-range shooting pair for years.
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