Klay Thompson made his preseason debut with the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night, scoring 10 points in his new team’s 107-102 loss to the Utah Jazz.

“I haven’t been that nervous, I don’t think, since the 2015 Finals Game 1,” Thompson told reporters. “It felt so good just to go out there and play and work those jitters out. It was a new experience, and it’s a natural feeling when you’ve been somewhere so long and to be somewhere new in a new environment. To finally put the uniform on, it felt amazing.”

It was Thompson’s first NBA game in anything other than a Golden State uniform. He played 11 seasons with the Warriors, not counting the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons that he missed with injuries, and helped Golden State win four NBA championships.

He enters this season with 2,481 3-pointers, the sixth-most in NBA history. And all three of his baskets in his exhibition debut with Dallas were from beyond the arc.

Thompson was 3-for-5 on 3-pointers, 3-of-9 overall from the field, in 18 minutes.

The Warriors have already announced that they will retire Thompson’s No. 11 jersey. Thompson is wearing No. 31 for Dallas; the No. 11 jersey for the Mavericks is worn by Kyrie Irving.

“I’m just excited to experience a new chapter,” said Thompson, who sat out the Mavs’ preseason opener Monday night. “It’s going to be special. I just know it.”

CP3 SETS UP wemby >> Chris Paul and Victor Wembanyama seem to already be clicking.

Paul — a 12-time All-Star entering his 20th season in the NBA — made his preseason debut with San Antonio on Wednesday night, getting a loud ovation from his new home crowd when he was the final player announced as part of the Spurs’ starting lineup against the Orlando Magic.

And his first assist in his new uniform was fitting — an alley-oop lob that set Wembanyama up for a dunk late in the first quarter. The former Warriors guard finished with five points and three assists, two of them to Wembanyama, in 23 minutes.

Hockey

AvS suffer another blow >> The banged-up Colorado Avalanche will be without another forward in Jonathan Drouin due to an upper-body injury.

Drouin’s expected to miss at least two games before his injury is reassessed. The 29-year-old left winger didn’t have a shot on goal in more than 21 minutes of ice time during a season-opening 8-4 loss at Vegas on Wednesday.

His absence is a big offensive blow for a team that’s already missing forwards Gabriel Landeskog (knee) and Artturi Lehkonen (shoulder). Another forward, Valeri Nichushkin, is serving a suspension that’s in effect until at least mid-November.

Golf

Jaeger chips up leaderboard >> Stephan Jaeger made up for a three-putt from 10 feet by chipping in for birdie on consecutive holes Friday for an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot lead before the second round was suspended by darkness at the inaugural Black Desert Championship.

The PGA Tour’s return to Utah for the first time in 61 years has been greeted with low scoring on the Tom Weiskopf design carved out of an ancient black lava field. Jaeger was at 14-under 128 — by three shots his lowest 36-hole score — and he still had six players within two shots of him.

Tennis

Upset in China >> No. 2-ranked Carlos Alcaraz’s 12-match winning streak was ended by Tomas Machac 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals on Thursday.

It was No. 33 Machac’s third tour-level quarterfinal, and the Czech player proved more than a match for the four-time major-winning Spaniard as he earned his second win over a top-five opponent this year in two hours. Machac will play top-ranked Jannik Sinner in the semifinals.