One-on-One: Miami, Orlando, Chicago? Where will OKC's Russell Westbrook land?
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Yardbarker NBA writers Pat Heery and Sean Keane address the hottest issues in the NBA. This week's topic: Where will Russell Westbrook end up? Heery: Nothing in the NBA lasts forever. Not even the Russell Westbrook era in Oklahoma City. A decade that began wiOne-on-One: Miami, Orlando, Chicago? Where will OKC's Russell Westbrook land?
Yardbarker NBA writers Pat Heery and Sean Keane address the hottest issues in the NBA. This week's topic: Where will Russell Westbrook end up? Heery: Nothing in the NBA lasts forever. Not even the Russell Westbrook era in Oklahoma City. A decade that began with Westbrook, Kevin Durant and James Harden leading the Thunder to the Finals as kids in 2012, and saw each of the trio win MVP awards, somehow yielded zero titles for OKC. If you played this decade out 10 times, the Thunder probably win at least one championship nine times, but for whatever reason, the breaks just didn’t fall their way this time. After Kawhi-ser Söze orchestrated the heist of Paul George, the Thunder appears ready to rebuild and are reportedly working with Westbrook to facilitate a trade to a team with playoff aspirations. While there are definitely some interested teams, Russ’ ginormous contract (4 years/$170M), combined with most teams having used the majority of their cap space on the recent free-agent bonanza, makes it difficult to Read more