{"id":51234,"date":"2022-06-15T03:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-ban-fake-klay-thompson-after-chase-center-caper\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T03:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:34:16","slug":"warriors-ban-fake-klay-thompson-after-chase-center-caper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-ban-fake-klay-thompson-after-chase-center-caper\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors ban fake Klay Thompson after Chase Center caper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Warriors will no longer be seeing double.<\/p>\n<p>The team banned Klay Thompson impersonator Dawson Gurley from games at Chase Center in San Francisco after he made his way to the court and \u201cshot around\u201d for 10 minutes ahead of Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Banned bc I walked past 5 layers of security guards (who willingly let me through security without asking for ID) &#038; shot around on the court for 10 minutes,&#8221; Gurley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigDawsTv\/status\/1536493185845063680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on Twitter Monday night<\/a>.  &#8220;I also spent 10K on tickets which they are not refunding.  Why should I be banned because their security is incompetent? &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fake Klay Thompson Sneaks Into NBA Finals (BANNED FOR LIFE)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtcDSwoxOUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Gurley released video of himself pulling off the stunt and encountering no resistance from Chase Center security &#8211; despite going through several checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared a letter from the team, saying he could be charged with trespassing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You deliberately deceived Chase Center building personnel by impersonating a GSW employee,&#8221; the letter read.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Hurley seemed incredulous he was able to simply walk through security.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">@bigdawstv<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fake-klay-thompson-banned-warriors-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fake klay thompson banned from chase center\" class=\"wp-image-22662234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fake-klay-thompson-banned-warriors-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fake-klay-thompson-banned-warriors-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fake-klay-thompson-banned-warriors-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Dawson Gurley was able to get onto the court at the Chase Center before Game 5 of the NBA Finals.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">@bigdawstv<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Warriors weren&#8217;t the only ones duped.  Gurley, who went viral during the 2018 NBA Finals for sitting courtside dressed as one half of the Splash Brothers, met with fans and signed autographs.<\/p>\n<p>The viral fame seems to have justified Gurley&#8217;s actions in his mind.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWas it worth it to lose 10K on tickets and be banned for life?  Absolutely, \u201dhe tweeted.  &#8220;I was an NBA player for 10 minutes bro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s willing to accept his punishment, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t want to make this a bigger deal than it is, the chase center has every right to ban me,\u201d Gurley wrote.  \u201cI get it.  No hard feelings.  Had fun doing it. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warriors will no longer be seeing double. The team banned Klay Thompson impersonator Dawson Gurley from games at Chase Center in San Francisco after he made his way to the court and \u201cshot around\u201d for 10 minutes ahead of Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday. &#8220;Banned bc I walked past 5 layers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/warriors-ban-fake-klay-thompson-after-chase-center-caper\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warriors ban fake Klay Thompson after Chase Center caper<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[710,4701,389,6044,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fake-klay-thompson.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}