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Tristan Thompson: "I got to give a big shout out to Kevin Love. Kevin Love put it together. If you had to look at your bingo card and guess who would put it together back then, you would have said Kevin Love. Kevin Love has been in Miami. He has been taking that leadership role and he has done the group chat. So I am like, shout out to Kevin Love for doing it. He put his mind to it, got his team together, and we all showed up. It was amazing."
Tristan Thompson on LeBron James: "He wants to be the best at everything. And he's trying to be the greatest golfer of all time in one year. It takes time."
Tristan Thompson: "The reality is that that 2017-18 Warriors team is a cheat code. I mean, they literally made the NBA say, you know what, forget vets, we're going to go all young guys on the bench. I mean, think about when that team came together. Only four teams thought they had a chance to really make a run: Warriors, Rockets, Cavs, and a coin flip of the East team was probably the Celtics because they were just prideful. Everyone else, they just started packing it in and saying like, we're just going to rebuild."
Tristan Thompson: "If Kyrie Irving was two inches taller, he'd be the best player to ever touch a basketball on planet Earth. Because think about it, first of all, have you ever seen Kyrie Irving get a shot blocked? Never. And he's only what, 6'2, 6'3. But so imagine he was 6'5, what he could do right now. No, it would be other world. Like even if you ask LeBron James, like Kyrie Irving is probably the most talented. If you put Kyrie Irving in a workout, he could do anything. He has no flaws in his game."
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He added that Brown is the type of player who "wants to always beat the odds," and he likes him being a part of the team because he believes that Boston "needs change." "When I played there, they call you the n-word," he said, which was met with shock from Sharpe. "They going to call you that. … When they drunk, they going to call you that. … I love Boston, they drink to get belligerently drunk." He continued: "And you know when a muthafucka get really drunk, they going to be loose with the lips. And I definitely heard someone call me that outside of a restaurant ‘cause I didn’t want to take a picture with them."
Tristan Thompson: "The reality is this, David Blatt got hired to coach myself, Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters, Tyler Zeller. He got hired before LeBron James signed back. So he got hired to help this young Cavs team mature to be a playoff team. He didn't get hired for LeBron James and Kevin Love to come in, you know, come be contenders. But the Cavs did a good job because they know David Blatt's coming from EuroLeague and he had multiple EuroLeague. So, you bring Tyronn Lue in and I think they the Cavs knew also like, hey, we got David Blatt who has this great potential but then we also have this young whip snapper Tyronn Lue where if things don't go right with Blatt and if we do get a superstar like the LeBron and James to come, we got someone that has credibility with LeBron James, that can kind of like make LeBron James feel comfortable."
Hosted by LeBron James, the luxury multi-country vacation featured core members of the historic 2015–16 roster, including Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, and Tristan Thompson, with Iman Shumpert and Matthew Dellavedova joining the group later. Despite playing in 13 games during that legendary postseason run, the 39-year-old Russian big was completely omitted from the planning. Speaking with the Russian outlet Sport Express on Friday, Timofey Mozgov revealed that nobody from the title-winning squad text messaged or called him to join the summer trip. “Yes, I saw the video of that party. No one wrote or called me. If I’d been invited, I’d have gladly joined. Of course, I’d have loved to be there too, to drink some wine,” he answered when asked if an invitation had been extended.
Richard Jefferson on thhe group chat dynamics of the 2016 Cavs: "When we talk about the group chat from the team, there's like six of us, and it's been the same six. There was the full team group chat, then there was the guys that were J.R., Swish, Tristan, Kevin, Channing, and Bron. So that's the group of us. And then we start doing, hey guys, we should get together, do some golf and go do this, and then a conversation kind of got started is, and like, hey, it would be wrong if we didn't invite some of the other guys because it's going to look like, we're calling it this championship. No, it was the group chat from the championship team, not the championship team group chat."
In a joint Instagram post Wednesday between James, Smith, Thompson and Frye, the caption read: "The group chat finally linked up." Another joint post between Jefferson, Love, Thompson and Frye included a video of Thompson delivering drinks to the group on the course, captioned: "We all have roles."
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Former NBA pro Tristan Thompson is suing a cryptocurrency firm over allegations it fabricated a pretext to get out of a $2 million endorsement deal—and has continued using his name, image, and likeness without authorization. The lawsuit, filed May 27 in Delaware’s Chancery Court, takes aim at U.K.-based World Mobile Group. Thompson says he was promised up to $2 million worth of the firm’s crypto token WMTX under a deal signed in May 2025.
Tristan Thompson is keeping fans updated on his life outside of basketball. While sharing he had formally retired from the NBA after 14 seasons, the former Cleveland Cavaliers center reflected on life since stepping away from the court. "Honestly, it's been great," Tristan told ex Khloe Kardashian on the May 28 episode of her Khloe in Wonder Land podcast. "I always tell people it feels like I'm a rookie again."
"You have to figure out how you're going to pivot," he continued. "The toughest thing for anyone, but for athletes, is figuring out what's next. For athletes, the easiest transition is going into sports broadcasting because it's a way that you can still stay part of the game and just talk about what you love."