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Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook III (born November 12, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, Westbrook made his NBA debut in 2008 and became a star as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Dec 10, 2021 · For a man who lets his game do most of his talking, Russell Westbrook has a hell of a list of soundbites attached to a Hall of Fame career. In a playoff series, the fiery guard from Los Angeles...
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It started after less than 30 seconds, on the Wizards' very first possession of the game. Russell Westbrook with a performatively lethargic off-beat dribble at the top of the key, a burst to the left and a bruising shoulder against the incoming defender Bogdan Bogdanovic.
By the time Bogdanovic recovered his balance from the contact, one can only imagine it was like going shoulder-to-shoulder with a wrecking ball, or the crane carrying it, the ball was already gone, out of Westbrook's hands. Then it was sailing out of Rui Hachimura's for an easy, wide-open bucket. Picture perfect point guard play made effortless.
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Russell Westbrook became the NBA's All-Time triple-doubles leader as he recorded 28 points, 13 rebounds and 21 assists for the Washington Wizards at the Atlanta Hawks.
Westbrook dished another 20 assists over the course of the game and when the time came to claim his 10th rebound with 8:30 remaining in the fourth, the ball caromed not once but twice off the rim and dropped into his lap as if by divine intervention.
His forward Davis Bertans was also waiting to snag the loose shot but both fate, and the ball, had other ideas.
•22 triple-doubles in his last 26 games
•His 14 triple-doubles in April were the most in any calendar month in NBA history
•Leads the league in assists with 11.6 per game (Trae Young is second with 9.5), which will be for the third time in four seasons
•Ranks sixth in the league in rebounds with 11.6 per game, the only guard in the top 20
Westbrook's seasons averaging a triple-double
•His 21 assists weren't even his highest assist tally over the past week - he recorded 24 against Indiana last Monday
Russell Westbrook became the NBA's all-time leader in triple-doubles with 182, passing Oscar Robertson. The Wizards star recorded 28 points, 13 rebounds and 21 assists in a stunning performance against the Hawks.
Jun 26, 2017 · Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson's record of 41 triple-doubles in a season and averaged a triple-double for the year. He beat out James Harden and Kawhi Leonard to claim the MVP trophy in the first NBA Awards show.
1 day ago · With the first round of the NBA Draft in the rearview mirror, the potential landing spots for some NBA veterans appear to be a bit more clear. Three of those…
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6 hours ago · Now that the NBA Draft is in the books the Clippers have some tough decisions to make on Paul George, James Harden, and Russell Westbrook.
2 days ago · He quickly became a scapegoat for all that went wrong for the Lakers during the 2021-22 season. Some of it was hyperbolic, but everyone quickly realized that trading for him was a big mistake. Even worse, the Lakers gave up a lot in that trade to get Westbrook — they jettisoned guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and forward Kyle Kuzma, two key ...
