It doesn’t take much sleuthing to deduce that Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson was one of the participants in an anonymous NBA player poll.

The Athletic dropped its semiregular poll Monday morning, saying its NBA reporters interviewed 142 players over the final month of the season to fill out the third edition of its poll. The Athletic granted anonymity in the hopes of getting more honest answers to a wide variety of questions, such as this year’s MVP, best defender, most overrated and underrated players, and more.

But in what the Athletic called a “bonus question,” the outlet got 115 players to share their favorite current non-NBA athlete. The names at the top of the list were Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, WNBA No. 1 overall pick Caitlin Clark and tennis great Novak Djokovic.

Buried among the names that received a single vote was outfielder Trayce Thompson, currently plying his trade for the Mets’ Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse.

Trayce Thompson has bounced around since making his MLB debut in 2015, playing in 369 big league games during that time. In 935 plate appearances, he batted .212 with 45 home runs and 126 RBI. At one point or another, Thompson has had stints playing in the organizations of the Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Cleveland Guardians, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers and New York Mets, his current club.

With a career like that, it’s hard to envision anyone calling Trayce Thompson their favorite current athlete — unless, of course, you happen to be his older brother. Klay and Trayce remain close to this day, too, according to stories from People magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have different newsrooms.)

That’s not the only Bay Area tie in the favorite current non-NBA athlete answers, either. Niners stars Christian McCaffrey and Fred Warner each received a vote, as did Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams, who grew up in Palo Alto, and New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, who was born in Walnut Creek.

The Warriors don’t feature too heavily in the rest of the answers. Stephen Curry received one vote on the “greatest player of all-time” question, one vote for this year’s MVP and three votes for the question asking players whom they’d sign first if they were building a roster from scratch. Draymond Green finished as a top-10 vote-getter for best defender and top-five in the “player you’d least like to fight” category; he also received a vote for most overrated player, an award he “won” in the 2019 version of this poll. Steve Kerr finished third when NBA players answered which coach, aside from their own, they’d most want to play for.