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.
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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.
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.
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?
