Klay Thompson Reportedly Signing With Miami Heat, NBA Fans Are Hype

UPDATE: AUG. 24 10:00 AM

The Miami Heat confirm that Thompson is offically a part of team.

Klay Thompson is on the move. The four-time NBA champion and five-time All-Star is heading to the Miami Heat, per multiple reports.

Thompson, 36, played the last two seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, but the team bought him out of his contract. He was scheduled to make $17.5 million this next NBA season.

The buyout happened when Thompson informed the Mavs he wanted to play for a contender. Though the Mavs drafted Cooper Flagg with the number one pick last season, the team went 26-56 without Kyrie Irving, who was sidelined with an ACL tear.

“Klay is one of the great players and competitors of his generation, and we are grateful for everything he brought to the Mavericks organization,” Masai Ujiri, the Dallas Mavericks president of basketball operations, said in a statement. “We have tremendous respect for Klay and all that he has accomplished throughout his career, and we wish him nothing but the best moving forward.”

Thompson is far from his heyday as a player, averaging just 12.9 ppg last season. Once known as one of the league’s elite sharpshooters from the perimeter, he shot just 38.7% from 3-point range in the 2025-26 campaign. In the 2016-17 season with Golden State, he shot 44% from the 3-point line.

Still, Klay is expected to team with newly acquired Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo for the new-look Heat. He’ll likely share the backcourt with projected starter Davion Mitchell.

Mitchell should get Thompson some good looks with his 6.5 assists per game. He’s also an accurate shooter with a 49% field goal percentage. Andrew Wiggins will likely play the three with Thompson either starting or rotating as the shooting guard with Tim Hardaway, Jr.

Wiggins and Thompson played together for four years in Golden State, winning a championship together in 2022. Their leadership, along with Antententoumpo, who won a chip in 2021, and with Mitchell and Adebayo, who have never won, should make for a hungry and dangerous Miami Heat squad in the effort to dethrone the defending champion New York Knicks.

The Heat went 43-39 last year, losing to the Charlotte Hornets 127-126 in the Play-In tournament. And Adebayo became the third NBA player to score over 80 points in an NBA contest, scoring 83 against the Washington Wizards on March 10.

See social media’s reaction to Thompson taking his talents to South Beach below.