Klay Thompson is inarguably the best basketball player the Washington State Cougars have ever produced. After scoring more than 1,700 points in Pullman (third most in school history), he’s won three championships with the Golden State Warriors, scored nearly 4,000 more points than any other WSU alumnus, been named all-NBA twice and an all-star five times — in just seven-plus seasons ... and counting. He’s on a path for the basketball hall of fame.
And so it is that WSU has made the inevitable move to retire the number Thompson wore when he was a Coug.