Bleacher Report’s top 30 defenders in the NBA:
1. Victor Wembanyama
2. Ausar Thompson
3. Rudy Gobert
4. Chet Holmgren
5. Amen Thompson
6. Scottie Barnes
7. OG Anunoby
8. Evan Mobley
9. Cason Wallace
10. Giannis Antetokoumnpo
11. Alex Caruso
12. Collin Murray-Boyles
13. Derrick White
14. Dyson Daniels
15. Toumani Camara
16. Kawhi Leonard
17. Jaden McDaniels
18. Donovan Clingan
19. Draymond Green
20. Anthony Davis
21. Isaiah Hartenstein
22. Jarrett Allen
23. Mitchell Robinson
24. Jalen Williams
25. Bam Adebayo
26. Lu Dort
27. Jaren Jackson Jr.
28. Walker Kessler
29. Jalen Suggs
30. Robert Williams III
Zach Randolph says Russell Westbrook might come out of retirement 👀
“This man was supposed to be in the league for another 3-4 years at least. I'd like to see him with the Heat. Brodie got a lot left in him. I just saw his little brother yesterday… He might be back.”
(via @OutTheMudTL, @TidalLeague)
Russell Westbrook retired today with the most triple-doubles in NBA history. The name written on his wrist for all 18 seasons belongs to the kid UCLA actually wanted. That kid died at 16, and Westbrook spent two decades playing for both of them.
Westbrook was a 5'8", 140-pound freshman that no college recruited. The call UCLA's head coach made to his high school in 2004 was about Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's best friend from across the street in Hawthorne. A 6'6" phenom pulling scholarship offers as a sophomore. The two had a pact to play at UCLA together, then the NBA.
In May 2004, during a pickup game at LA Southwest College, Barrs collapsed on the court. An undiagnosed enlarged heart.
Westbrook walked across the street every morning after that to do his friend's chores at his grandmother's house. Then he grew 7 inches, averaged 25 a game as a junior, and took the UCLA offer they were supposed to accept together. From that point on he played like a man carrying two careers.
The numbers he put up look like typos.
209 triple-doubles is the most in NBA history, and it took breaking Oscar Robertson's record that stood for 47 years. In 2017 he averaged a triple-double across an entire season, something no human had done since 1962, then did it three more times. 27,176 points, 14th all time. 10,351 assists, 5th all time, behind only Stockton, CP3, Kidd, and LeBron. He did all of it at 6'3" in a league of giants, and outlasted the franchise that drafted him. Seattle picked him 4th in 2008 and stopped existing before he played a game.
And in every one of his 1,301 games, he wore two wristbands. One said KB3. The other said "Why not?"
People spent 18 years asking why he played every possession like the building was on fire. He was playing for two.
@Money23Green I see some things just don’t change. lol. You was on sucka shit four years ago when you swung on Jordan Poole and you on sucka shit now. I usually don’t engage but since you went so far left to get my attention here it is!!!
If you think your big 32 year old, 3 or 4 rings at the time having ass swinging on a 23 year old Jordan Poole at the time is the same then you are even more delusional that I thought.
First of all Bam is 28. Tyler is 26. Neither one of them got it all figured out yet. Maybe I was giving you too much credit at the time cause I thought you did so that’s why I commented. 2nd, anyone who knows bam knows he’s strong as baby bear. If he would’ve unloaded on Tyler 100% it’s over. You fired off on that young boy like it was a club punch and you never met him before in your life. 3rd yeah I did go at Jimmy. You damn right. The shit you pull in golden state and that shit he pulled in Chicago talking crazy to Hoiberg and disrespecting teammates in practice in Minnesota ain’t gon fly in the 305. So yeah. I checked his ass.
Call it heat culture or what ever you want but before I let one player disrespect Spo in front of the squad, cut his legs out and disrupt what 15 other guys tryin to get accomplished, I’ll kick his ass. I owe that to ZO and Tim and Glen and the rest of my OGs.
Ion really vibe you and I think you know that so unless it’s me on prime talking hoops I won’t mention you at all. You brought me into this and I am retired and out the way. I suggest you keep it pushing cause I ain’t giving out no more hall passes bra!
Miami Heat fans had to experience:
- Knicks ring
- Celtics ring
- Bucks ring
- Jimmy requesting out
- trading for Terry Rozier
- Bam and Dragic injured in finals
- Max Strus “out of bounds”
- missing out on Dame
- missing out on KD
- missing out on Spida
- Chris Bosh getting blood clots
- D-Wade leaving Miami
- LeBron leaving Miami
- 2011 finals collapse
WE ARE TIRED OF SUFFERING
Jayson Tatum over his last 3 games:
25.7 PPG
9.7 RPG
6.7 APG
Boston 3-0
Came back this month after tearing his Achilles last season and won Player of the Week just a few weeks later.
The Anomaly 🔥