The four-time champion and five-time All-Star sounds off on his motivation to be back on the top of his game and to prove doubters wrong.
On any given day of the Warriors’ season, Eric Housen might be booking flights and hotels, acquiring snacks, arranging team dinners and stocking every player’s locker with assorted jerseys and shoes and socks. As vice president of team operations, he’s tasked with countless critical details of a long NBA season—and the occasional random request.
And so, one afternoon in October, Housen set about clipping and laminating a large piece of newsprint, before carefully hanging it in the locker of one Klay Alexander Thompson.