If traded, Wester will refuse to buy out the discussion
Although the Lakers have been announcing that they will keep Westbrook for another season, the general view is that they would prefer to trade him off if given the chance.
If Westbrook is really traded away, the harsh reality for him is that he is likely to be bought out. However, according to ESPN's NBA insider Raymonda, the buyout would be a situation that Westbrook simply could not accept.
"Westbrook is a very ambitious player, and once you've been bought out once in your career, the outside world will definitely look at you differently.
In fact, Westbrook will receive an annual salary of $47.1 million next season, making it a burden for any team willing to trade him. Therefore, any team that trades with Westbrook is likely to negotiate a buyout with Westbrook.
However, Raymonda was convinced that this would not happen because it was not the nature of Wei Shao, and the reason why Wei Shao was Wei Shao was because of his arrogance and his sweaty way of playing."
She continued: "He can't escape, he can't give up on that, because that made Westbrook, and if he accepts the buyout, then he's not Westbrook." ”
This situation makes it more difficult for the Lakers to trade Westbrook. Maybe that's why they're now preparing to have the former league MVP on their roster for the 2022-23 season, and they may have no choice.
O'Neal believes that the reason for Last Season's Westbrook's dysfunction was too much respect for James and thick eyebrows
Offseason people point out a number of reasons to explain why the Los Angeles Lakers' star trio of James, Westbrook and Davis didn't fare well last season. Although injuries are the biggest cause of the Lakers' problems, Wei Shao is also the first to bear the brunt.
Westbrook is the only one of the three to stay healthy, playing 78 games, but his outside shooting, turnovers and defensive problems make him easy targets of condemnation, but a Lakers legend has given his opinion on Westbrook's struggling performance.
In an interview with Bill Di Filippo, Shaquille O'Neal said I think Russell Westbrook had too much respect for LeBron James and Anthony Davis last season.
"I don't think it's because of his age, I don't care who I'm playing with, the fans make me hundreds of millions of dollars and I have to get 28 points per game for them, instead of 'the kind of guy who looks for other stars on the court every time I get the ball, so when I get the ball, I do my thing.'" I couldn't get busy, so I went to look for him again. You've got to fight like that.
Westbrook is so nice, I don't know what his relationship with James is, but you can write this down, even if I don't know anything about basketball, I know it's a hellish combination. Why didn't they succeed? I don't know, but when I watchEdbrook play, he was super passive on the court.
You don't need to be passive on the field, you just have to play your game well. If I were him, I would be on the floor to direct the game, and when the opponent lost the ball, get the rebound, rush up, and if I don't find the opportunity, then pass the ball out, give it to James to handle, let him direct. Give it to me and I'll do it, he just thinks too much. When he plays freely, he is a monster on the field. ”
That's very much in line with what Westbrook said at the end of the season, arguing that he never really got the chance to be himself. O'Neill is right that at some point this season Westbrook has become very passive and seems to have lost confidence in himself.
Gone with the wind! Nick Young wrestled with his opponent in the boxing ring and was finally KO with a punch
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Nick Young has been on the news regularly lately, but has nothing to do with basketball. Before his boxing debut, Young called his former Lakers teammate D'Angelo Russell the NBA player he most wanted to play against.
But Young's real boxing debut rival was rap star Malcolm Mitchon, the successor to rapper Blueface, who withdrew from the tournament because he didn't get a boxing license, a match that took place at the Social Gloves 2-man campaign and unfortunately didn't have a satisfactory ending.
In the first three rounds of the game, Nick Young had been controlling the situation on the field with speed and arm span, clearly taking the initiative, leading 10-9 in all three rounds. One of his turns in the boxing ring dodged, and he was teased by the host as "Is this ready to grab the rebound in the frontcourt?" However, the good times did not last long, Nick Young was directly hit in the face by the opponent in a head-on confrontation, he fell out of the boxing ring and covered his face in pain, and the referee immediately called a halt to the game, and finally decided that Minikon won the game.
Young was unhappy with how things turned out, believing that Mikken had deliberately hit him with a low elbow, so he lost. The former Lakers guard told The Mirror's Harry Davis: "I felt good at the time, I hit him many times and I felt like I was going to win soon," Young said. ”
Maybe Yang doesn't know exactly what he was hit in the game, because in the final shot, his head doesn't seem to be touched in any way, and it should be noted that the game was a game without points, so there would be no official winner.
Russell responded to a boxing match by former Lakers teammate Young
To Russell, he seemed uninterested in a possible boxing match with Young and was even annoyed that his name had been mentioned.
The former Lakers guard claimed on social media that Young was simply using his name to maintain his influence, and again claimed he wasn't the one who leaked the infamous video that initially caused problems between the two.
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