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“I was Klay Thompson for 10 minutes, absolutely worth losing $10,000 and be banned for life”: Warriors star’s look-alike walked past 5-layers security at Chase Center and made it to practice area

Akash Murty
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“I was Klay Thompson for 10 minutes, absolutely worth losing $10,000 and be banned for life”: Warriors star’s famous look-alike entered Chase Center without an identity card

If you have a look-alike and you know it, then you have to safeguard your home and office from them. Klay Thompson did not, and a man almost played instead of him in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.

The real Thompson is not having the best NBA Finals of his life, but another one indeed had his. At least 10 minutes of it if he is to be believed.

Dawson Gurley is famous around Northern California for being the look-alike of the Golden State Warriors’ star shooting guard. The man has fooled fans by signing autographs as Thompson quite often.

A regular audience courtside in Oakland’s Oracle Arena and San Francisco’s Chase Center during the Warriors games, Gurley has been one of Dubs’s biggest fans and also a season ticket holder for years.

But that changed Monday night as Dawson dared to go one step further and tried making a fool out of Warriors security at Chase Center, this time making the guards believe that he was Klay himself.

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Klay Thompson ’s impersonator breaks into the Warriors facility and the practice area and gets banned for life, losing $10k on tickets but feels it was worth it.

The 29-year-old YouTuber went haywire with his prank and successfully entered the Warriors facility without an identity card before Game 5 and claims that he participated in the warm-ups or shoot-around after getting past five layers of security guards.

And the things that followed have him banned from the Warriors arena for life which will cost him at least $10,000 on tickets.

The Kansas resident wasn’t so upset about it at all because he got to be an NBA/Warriors player for 10 minutes.

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He might find it to be worthy for now, but if the Warriors can settle this and win the championship, he’ll regret not watching it from his seat inside the Chase Center.

Although, if the Dubs win it in Boston in Game 6, he might be able to watch it from the stands if he can get his hands on the tickets in TD Garden. Or maybe again, get in as Klay and get banned from all facilities once and for all?

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Akash Murty

Akash Murty

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An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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