{"id":125209,"date":"2022-05-27T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-132141"},"modified":"2022-05-27T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:30:00","slug":"random-nba-players-game-day-routine-involves-playing-nintendo-avoiding-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/27\/random-nba-players-game-day-routine-involves-playing-nintendo-avoiding-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: NBA Player&#8217;s Game Day Routine Involves Playing Nintendo, Avoiding Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/00962f286d3e4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/00962f286d3e4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/00962f286d3e4\/basketball.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Basketball\"><\/figure>\n<p>Celebrities! They&#8217;re just like us! In this case, it&#8217;s Klay Thompson \u2014 one of the NBA&#8217;s superstars, who plays as a shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Klay&#8217;s game day routine is unmatched \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1fdDiopxgr\">pic.twitter.com\/1fdDiopxgr<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSWarriors\/status\/1530049706809872386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When asked what his pre-game day looks like, he demurred: &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna give away all my secrets,&#8221; Thompson told the press, before stating that his ritual is mostly avoiding basketball. Don&#8217;t worry, Klay \u2014 we&#8217;ve been doing that for most of our lives, and we&#8217;ve never even been <em>approached<\/em> by the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Before I even start my day, I just go jump in my 65 degree pool to wake myself up, and I\u2019m so lucky to even have a pool. And then I just play with Rocco [his dog], I play maybe some Nintendo and I just try to not watch basketball or basketball media, because that\u2019s how I clear my mind, just doing other things that occupy my time that are fun, and I have to keep this routine going for the next series.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, when pressed on which &#8220;Nintendo&#8221; he&#8217;s been playing, he told the audience that he&#8217;s got both ends of the spectrum covered:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Klay as he walks out: &#8220;I got a Nintendo Switch and a SuperNintendo. Super Mario Bros!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZruYBZorhW\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZruYBZorhW<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaltonJ_Johnson\/status\/1530045625814884355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8230;Still not really sure what game that is, but we&#8217;re just glad he&#8217;s having fun.<\/p>\n<p>We might not be able to take you in the courts, Klay, but hit us up if you ever want to visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities! They&#8217;re just like us! In this case, it&#8217;s Klay Thompson \u2014 one of the NBA&#8217;s superstars, who plays as a shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors. Klay&#8217;s game day routine is unmatched \ud83d\ude02 pic.twitter.com\/1fdDiopxgr\u2014 Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) May 27, 2022 When asked what his pre-game day looks like, he demurred: &#8220;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}