Where does Westbrook wind up now?

I think he has to be going somewhere. No way OKC is gonna pay the man that much money so he can try and get a triple double every night. I’ve never liked him, a huge stat-padder. It will probably be NY, or somewhere else where the believe that they are one overpayed player away. Can’t really think of any other teams like that right now

Edit: forgot to actually answer question

Dark horse I would say Cleveland

Westbrook and a couple of those picks for Sexton and Love would make sense for both

Miami makes some sense given that they're searching for another star. But I'm not sure what assets they have to give up, and I think Russ and Jimmy may murder one another.

Time to reunite Westbrook and Durant in Brooklyn. What a show that would be.

I predict Minnesota

Now we have Mike Thomas wanting Russ to NOLA
CTE is real

Most entertaining option would be the knicks, but they can’t make a deal for him right now. They don’t have the cap space to absorb his contract, can’t trade away players they just signed, and even if they traded away every player already on their roster (minus RJ), they’d only be able to receive back 30 mil in a trade. They would need to wait until December 15th so they can trade away newly signed players.

It’s likely that it’d take awhile to find a willing trade partner. Also, pretty sure Westbrook has a 15% trade kicker. The only way Westbrook is likely to get moved is if he is willing to decline that massive player option in the final year (he would need to desperately want out of OKC to turn down about $47 mil)

OKC got Miami picks in the PG13 trade so why make Miami better by trading them Russ?

Rockets seem super unlikely. I just don't get that at all.

I think Minny & Detroit are the 2 most likely spots


Minny has the money & assets to make it work and they need to take a risk after missing out on DLO and the West getting better. Pistons only have a few more chances with Griffin & Drummond. Either they make a move or blow it up.