SACRAMENTO >> One year to the day when Klay Thompson missed all 10 shots in his final game for the Warriors in a play-in loss in Sacramento, the former Warriors star found redemption — and kept alive the Dallas Mavericks’ chaotic season for at least one more game.

Thompson fueled a 120-106 win over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night with four 3-pointers in Dallas’ 44-point second quarter. That turned the play-in game into a laugher and helped erase the memories of the Spash Brothers’ dud in a 118–94 Warriors loss to the Kings in the same building a year ago.

“Human nature, when you end a season on a sour note like that you want to come out and prove people wrong,” said Thompson, who scored 16 of his 23 points in Dallas’ dominant second quarter. “But I thought I did a good job to start the game of trying to dish, rebound, play defense. The shots came to me after that.”

Dallas advanced to play at Memphis Friday night for the chance to get into the playoffs as the eighth seed in the West. The winner of that game will open the playoffs on Sunday at top-seeded Oklahoma City.

Thompson, 35, was traded to the Mavericks in a six-team sign-and-trade last July after spending his first 13 seasons with the Warriors and making up half of the famed Splash Brothers tandem with Steph Curry.