Earlier this week, a trade rumor linking Klay Thompson to the Boston Celtics popped up. It was soon debunked as bogus. But the stir it caused has lingered. Some continued to wonder, on talk radio and elsewhere, if it’s possible the Warriors sharpshooter could be on the block.

General manager Bob Myers, in an interview with 95.7 The Game on Wednesday afternoon, did his best to put out any lingering doubt that Thompson will remain a Warrior.

“We’re not trading Klay,” Myers told the station. “That’s the short answer.”

The rumor originated on an obscure website, through no reporting. Just speculation. It was read and then blasted out to the public by former Warriors assistant coach Brian Scalabrine on his Sirius XM radio station on Monday morning, sounding as if he had credible inside knowledge.

Scalabrine soon backed away from it, saying there wasn’t any inside information. But it was too late.

“I know Scalabrine, I know him. I represented him. Just call me,” Myers said on 95.7. “Call me and say, ‘Hey man. I saw this. I’m gonna go on the radio. Is it true?’ And then it’s over.”

But since it gained so much traction after Scalabrine publicized it, Myers was forced to assure Thompson it wasn’t true.

“I wish there was a little bit more discipline because you know what it causes: I gotta talk to Klay Thompson,” Myers said. “I gotta talk to his agent. And I get it, it’s part of the job. And there are times where rumors have weight to them and meaning, but I think it requires a little bit more diligence then just throwing stuff out there.”

“I told Klay,” Myers continued. “I called him and I said, ‘Klay doesn’t listen to anything.’ He doesn’t even know who we play most of the time, he’s not a guy that’s reading everything. He hadn’t even seen it. Then I talked to his agent. the media is very, very powerful. And we’re in a very public business.”

“And I don’t want to sit here and say every trade rumor is wrong because sometimes the media is right,” Myers said. “But I think everybody would be better off if we all kind of looked a little closer at things before we said ’em. But that’s me. That makes my life easier but I don’t think people really care.”