Oh…big surprise. Russell Westbrook as a Los Angeles Laker loafing on defense in the midst of a 5-17 shooting night in a home loss to the pathetic Indiana Pacers on Wednesday night got benched.
I guess finally…Coach Vogel got written permission from GM Rob Pelinka that he had the green light to finally bench Russell and tap the brakes on the NBA’s hottest shit show a.k.a the LA Lakers.
I guess the adage ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ is applicable here.
This is why to a certain degree I eviscerate the Thunder broadcast team and the Thunder media relations babysitter Little Nick Gallo with regularity on my blog. Maybe the Lakers should hire Gallo, fly him out to LA and have him breastfeed Russell Westbrook the remainder of this basketball season.
This didn’t just happen yesterday with Russell Westbrook. This was created in Sam Presti’s basketball lab where the Thunder even after losing Kevin Durant because of this kind of nonsense…doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on this behavior until Paul George became the adult in the room three years later and said, “Trade me.”
I wonder if the humans who still attend Thunder games are still in on booing Kevin Durant at this point. Kevin Durant clearly never would have returned to the NBA Finals again in his career if he’d stayed in Oklahoma City after 2016.
No way…no how because just like in NFL football you can’t have a liability quarterbacking your team when you get to the goal achieving portion of the season when you’re playing the best teams who all have good coaches.
I guess Billy Donovan just got smarter by heading off to Chicago where the Bulls are now the current leader in the East. Oh, wait…he won two national championships at Florida and made another Final Four.
It’s a Greek tragedy on multiple levels is what it is. Russell Westbrook is a Greek tragedy. I have no idea what Berry Tramel is writing about Russell this week because quite frankly I’m not nearly as nice a human being as Berry Tramel is on these matters. I bet he’s taking it light on Russell. That’s his call.
Laker coach Frank Vogel wanted no part of Russell Westbrook this summer when Laker GM Rob Pelinka evidently under the influence some mind altering drug decided this was the way forward for the Lakers.
Rob Pelinka isn’t going to fire himself. It doesn’t work that way. And there’s no way in hell any other GM in the NBA would be stupid enough to take on Russell Westbrook’s contract at this point.
I would think at this point the options are either fire Frank Vogel and let an assistant complete the season or make LeBron player/coach like Bill Russell was at the end of his career in Boston.
Just so we know…if Russell remains on the bench that means that undrafted Austin Reaves from OU becomes the starter for the Lakers with Russell coming off the bench. I’m sure that’s the way LeBron wanted to play in one of his last NBA seasons.
It’s just very sad is what it is for Russell at this point. This was his last chance to rehabilitate his legacy beyond just being a petulant chucker who somehow made it to four Western Conference Finals because Kevin Durant carried him that far.
That’s Russell Westbrook’s NBA legacy. Now…what he could do instead is take a very long hard look within himself and become a basketball player coming off the bench for Frank Vogel.
That’s the third option if Russell Westbrook wants to save himself from himself at this point.
Russell…. Bad Little Dude—take the third option.
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It’s what I do on here. I cover the world… not just the pathetic tanking Thunder. Since Oklahoma City no longer has an NBA team or a newspaper …I felt like someone should step in and fill some voids. Thanx for commenting. Mike