Russell Westbrook III is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He is a nine-time NBA All-Star and earned the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for the 2016–17 season.
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Russell Westbrook posted his first triple-double of the season to help the Los Angeles Lakers sneak past the Charlotte Hornets 126-123 after overtime .
Little could separate the two teams in regulation, with Anthony Davis’ clutch free throws with less than a minute remaining ultimately proving the difference.
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Game
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Min
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Pts
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FG
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Reb
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Ast
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41
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17
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5-15
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12
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14
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29
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8
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1-13
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9
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6
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|
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35
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27
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10-23
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6
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5
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|
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37
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27
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10-21
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9
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7
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35
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20
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9-22
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8
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9
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After fighting its way to a semi-respectable 5-3 record to start the 2021-22 NBA season, LA has lost two games in a row, against very beatable teams, without All-Star LeBron James. All-Star Anthony Davis has been limited by an injury and an illness in both of those losses. The Lakers are now 5-5 and in danger of sliding fast.
The biggest issue in these defeats has, handily, been the remaining presumed All-Star on the roster (although he sure isn’t playing like one), point guard Russell Westbrook.
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Westbrook’s confounding late-game decision-making almost singlehandedly doomed the Lakers in their 107-104 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this week.
The entire team collapsed against the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday in a 105-90 defeat (the Lakers were down 100-68 before the deep-bench scrubs were brought in with eight minutes left), but certainly Westbrook was just as disappointing as everyone else. He went 1-of-13 from the field and posted a -20 plus-minus rating.
Westbrook leads the entire NBA in botched crunch-time three-point attempts. He’s struggling to convert at the rim or from the floor in the same dominant way he used to. Even he knows that he’s a weird fit for this team
