Russell Westbrook

With the second round of the NBA Playoffs in full swing, Joey BadA$$, in collaboration with Mtn Dew, has just released the music video for the single “Victory,” a motivational track that features lyrical nods to basketball. The video is set to celebrate this year’s NBA postseason and features premier current Team DEW NBA Stars [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s season is over, but Russell Westbrook’s time with the team is not. Nor does he sound like a player who wants it to be. Westbrook cannot explore free agency until 2018 (player option), so with regard to next season, the issue is kind of moot. But he will be eligible to [...]

On Wednesday night Russell Westbrook may have set an NBA record with his 51-point triple-double, but that just wasn’t enough. His 51 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds were the most points ever scored in a playoff triple-double. But when it was over, all Westbrook could see was a 115-111 loss to the Rockets that [...]

The regular season MVP award in the NBA may be the most bandied about, highly-regarded, and fiercely coveted individual award in all of professional sports. It also serves as a snapshot when looking back at a given season in NBA history to remember which players, teams and story lines were at the forefront of the [...]

The 2016-17 season has truly been Russell Westbrook’s masterpiece. He is still only 28 and this is only his first season as the alpha dog for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has plenty more success in front of him, one would assume, but he will never recapture the magic or the wonder and bewilderment of [...]

Russell Westbrook is putting together one of the greatest individual seasons in the NBA’s 70 year history. He will finish this season averaging a triple-double and is now on the cusp of tying and more than likely breaking Oscar Robertson’s record, a record of 41 triple-doubles in a single season once seen as unbreakable. Westbrook [...]

The 2016-17 season has been the most statistically illuminating and eye-popping season in NBA history, at least in the past 50 years or so. You have guys accomplishing triple-doubles at a rate that far exceeds any other year in NBA history, and numerous players around the league filling up a stat sheet to unprecedented levels. [...]

As we all know, the race for league MVP this season has been an epic two-horse race almost from the very beginning, as Russell Westbrook and James Harden have each been having all-time great seasons. That makes the decision for who should be honored as the league’s most valuable player extremely difficult, and former league [...]

We are all aware of Russell Westbrook’s mind-numbing resume for MVP this season as he is averaging a triple-double (31-10-10) and has an incredible 35 triple-doubles thus far this season. While that more than speaks for itself, some of his teammates are still doing their part to campaign for their leader for the NBA’s top [...]

As the final month of the NBA season winds down, prognosticators around the league and every grouping of NBA fans around the country will participate in the debate: Who should win the 2016-17 NBA MVP award Russell Westbrook or James Harden? The reigning two-time MVP has already given his opinion/prediction on the matter and his [...]