Klay Thompson reacts to 'tumultuous' first season with Mavericks

Thompson isn't regretting any of it, though. In fact, he completely dismissed any idea of him possibly making a different decision last summer.

"Don't do this to me," Thompson answered on Friday night after being asked if would've made a different decision if he knew then what he knows now. "Don't do that to me. Don't do that. That's kind of a ridiculous question because I don't own a time machine and I don't believe in going back or looking back. If I did that my whole career, I would not be where I'm at and I wouldn't have been able to persevere through two really hard injuries. I'm here in Dallas and I enjoyed my time and I'm looking forward to the future."

When asked to describe the season, though, he used a word Nico Harrison was looking to avoid when he traded Doncic away.

""Wow. Tumultuous. I think we persevered. We were down to 8, 9 guys at one point. We held up the fort and got into the Play-In and gave ourselves a shot to get to the playoffs. It sucks. It really sucks, but I'm really proud of every man in this locker room. They show up to work every day. We try to do the right thing every day. We even started this past offseason in California with minicamps and we had a couple days of just bonding. I think we can do that this summer and get some really good momentum going into next season."

Many will remember that Nico Harrison tried to get ahead of a "tumultuous" offseason with Luka Doncic because he didn't want to offer Doncic a supermax contract, even if he'll say there was no guarantee that Doncic would've signed (which is a lie). It instead turned into a tumultuous season and will become an even more tumultuous offseason.