It’s decided! Russell Westbrook agrees to a two-year contract with Denver

The best player of the 2016-17 season, Russell Westbrook, is leaving the Los Angeles Clippers to spend the next two seasons with Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets. This will be his sixth stint in the NBA.

• Russell Westbrook has had a thorny journey from the Clippers
• Experienced player still has a lot to offer
• Westbrook is currently a playing legend

Westbrook’s journey from the Clippers to Utah to Denver

the 35-year-old seasoned point guard, who has scored over 25,000 points in the NBA, didn’t fare well last season with the Lakers’ city rival Los Angeles Clippers. There he was supposed to form a super-strong team with Kawhi Leonard, James Harden and Paul George.

However, as time went on, he fell out of the starting lineup, which resulted in his worst shooting average of his career (11.1 points per game). Westbrook decided it was time to take a different path and agreed to buy out his contract with the Utah Jazz.

The Clippers did, after all, sign Kris Dunn to a contract as a result. And the Denver Nuggets subsequently made the same move and acquired Westbrook for two seasons, with the contract value being just $6.8 million. Either way, this is a very good deal for Denver.

Westbrook will reunite with Jokic on the same team

Westbrook is the record holder for triple-doubles, having racked up a whopping 199 in the regular season. In his lifetime 2016-17 season, he managed to rack up 42 of them in one season. This broke the previous record held by Hall of Fame member Oscar Robertson by one. For these performances, he received the league’s MVP award.

He is undoubtedly a future member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. He has already scored 25,211 points in the regular season. And even at 35, he can still be a valid player. Now he and Jokic should add to the offensive power of last year’s champion Denver.

The nine-time All-Star and London Olympic champion spent the longest part of his career with the Oklahoma City Thunder. There he spent his first 11 seasons in the NBA and collected his greatest successes. But he never won a championship. Denver will be his sixth stint in the NBA, his sixth in the last seven seasons.

Still, he is a very versatile player who is capable of racking up double-digits in three stats even at his advanced age. To do that, however, he needs at least 30 minutes on the floor.

That’s why he went down significantly with the money, saying he’d like to play regularly in the starting five again. In his glory days, he was one of the highest paid basketball players, taking well over $30 million per season.

Source: NBA