And welcome to Light Years. We were recording this on the Spotify Green Room app. Today, this one,

this one hits at me very close, very close to the heart. And I don't know if it's because

we're slowly starting to see Clay workout videos. I don't know if everyone saw the Instagram

video. He posted today of himself doing some shooting drills.

But we're going to discuss our favorite Clay Thompson moments today.

So before we get into it, I have Aaron Larson with me today.

Andy Luce still on vacation, the remainder of the week.

I wanted to discuss basically Clay's return.

So first we got to start with what we know. He is nine months off of surgery. He got surgery November 25th, so legitimately nine months to the day. He is

starting to make progress. He's starting to go through some shooting stuff. Ramona

Shelbourne mentioned the Warriors were targeting Christmas. I've heard somewhere between Thanksgiving and

Christmas, that seems to be, he's not going to open the season. I think somewhere in early

December is where we're most likely going to see him on a heavy minutes limit.

And I would assume that minutes limit lasts until at least the All-Star break because he's

coming off of two terrible injuries. He hasn't played basketball since June 2019.

The key is to get him up to speed by springtime, not like try to make him play 35 minutes per game in January, reaggravate something and go through this all over again.

So my read on it is that the hope, and perhaps this is optimistic, although all of the fake internet doctors and even real internet doctors and Twitter doctors were pretty encouraged by the video that we saw today of him running baseline from corner to corner shooting and making a bunch of threes.

So my read on it is that it's not for him to come back and have its first game at Christmas,

but hopefully he can kind of ramp up in the weeks leading up to Christmas and then be at somewhat full go or close to full go for that Christmas game, Warriors at Sun.

So that's kind of my read on it as it stands now.

And that's kind of the way Ramona put it. Like, I just have a hard time believing he'll be at 30 to 35 minutes per game by Christmas.

Yeah, I mean, that's really... The question is how long is where I'm coming. With your legs, right? And your wind.

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