On any given day during the Warriors’ season, Eric Housen may be booking flights and hotels, buying snacks, planning team meals, and filling each player’s locker with a variety of jerseys, shoes, and socks. As vice president of club operations, he is responsible for innumerable crucial minutiae of a lengthy NBA season—as well as the odd strange request.

So, one October day, Housen clipped and laminated a huge piece of newspaper before carefully putting it in the locker of one Klay Alexander Thompson. It was one of the more unusual questions Housen has received in his 30-plus years with the organization. Klay, on the other hand, is one of the most eccentric characters that have appeared in this series.

“It’s probably one of the best requests,” Housen corrects kindly.

The news footage, ripped from the San Francisco Chronicle, displays 26 faces stacked in layers, some in color, others in black & white, some smiling, some solemn. They now gaze back at Thompson every night at Chase Center, quietly reminding him of all he hasn’t done yet, of everything he still aspires to do.

Bill Russell is at the top, followed by K.C. Jones and John Havlicek, who are a layer above Robert Horry, who looks down at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan, who are hovering over a throng of 13 others, including Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, and Tim Duncan. From Russell (11) to Horry (seven) and the Magic/Kobe tier (five), they are the only guys in NBA history to have more rings than Thompson.

The list was released in celebration of the Warriors’ most recent ring night, which took place on Oct. 18. Thompson saw it and quickly urged Housen to perform his best Kinko impersonation so that he could maintain his feeling of amazement.

“The Five Rings and Above Club,” Thompson remarks casually on a recent day off. “I had no idea the list was that short. And what about the players from the present era? It’s even more condensed. “Wow, that’s the only motivation I really need,” I think.