Let the record show: Klay Thompson actually beat Kevin Durant to the Hamptons.



Back in the summer of 2016, Thompson arrived before Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and everybody else to set the scene for the most important free-agent meetings in recent NBA history, though, in retrospect it mostly sounds just like a normal Klay vacation.



The other NBA Avengers were still assembling in the Bay Area and Durant had one last meeting in Oklahoma City, but Thompson was already at the Hamptons, had grabbed the best bedroom in the Warriors’ temporary headquarters, and, no shock, Thompson was already having a helluva time.



“I got there a day early,” Thompson recalled recently with a chuckle. “Got to the beach. I was (in New York City) for Team USA Basketball, so I had a couple days. Just enjoying vacation. It was nice out there, man.”



By the time Curry, Green, Iguodala, Steve Kerr, Joe Lacob, Bob Myers and the rest of...