Mr_Farawe

Software Developer 🖥 📲
Die hard fan of @russwest44

[Mr_Farawe @mr_farawe]

August 🙏🏾

[Houston Rockets @HoustonRockets]

Congrats on your retirement, Russ!

Thank you for the memories 🤞

[Thunder Film Room @ThunderFilmRoom]

The greatest tribute video of all-time.

[Talley 🇬🇳 @109_Talley]

I just watched every second of this, i suggest you do the same

[NBA KICKS @NBAKicks]

One of the most generous! @russwest44

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Draymond Green calls out NBA fans for celebrating Russell Westbrook now after the way they treated him poorly the past few years:

“Basketball fans suck. And by the way, I am a basketball fan, so you can throw me in that category, too. But basketball fans suck. Because for the last 8 to 10 years, all this guy has heard is how bad he sucks, how he don’t shoot it well, how he stat pad, and how he mess up teams. And when you’re in this game and that’s all you see, that’s all you hear, you power through it. You fight through it because that’s who we are. That’s what we do. But man, that sh*t is irritating and it bothers you. Make no mistake about it. West brick and all the things y’all said about him. And the moment he step aside, oh man, y’all did Russ wrong. Can’t tell me he couldn’t be on the team. What? How, wow how he played the game. Gonna miss him and not in the NBA. All these great beautiful things. Why can’t we feel that when you going?”

(via @DraymondShow)

[UCLA Men’s Basketball @UCLAMBB]

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 on an incredible NBA career.

Your passion, intensity, resilience and relentless spirit has left an unforgettable mark on the game. The Bruins are so proud of you @russwest44.

#GoBruins 🏀🙌🏾

[Washington Wizards @WashWizards]

Congrats to an all-time great @russwest44 💙

[Los Angeles Lakers @Lakers]

Congrats on a legendary career @russwest44 💜💛

[NBA @NBA]

"He's Mr. Triple Double of his generation."

👏 209 career triple-doubles (NBA record)
👏 42 triple-doubles in 2016-17 (single-season record)
👏 11 straight triple-doubles in 2019 (longest streak ever)
👏 4 seasons averaging a triple-double (NBA record)
👏 2nd player ever to average a triple-double in a season

Congrats on retirement to the TRIPLE-DOUBLE KING, @russwest44!

[Kevin Durant @KDTrey5]

I remember asking assistant coach Mo Cheeks, what’s harder to do? Workout after practice or before?? I only asked cuz by time I would get to the gym, Russ was already done in the morning and I usually got mine in after practice. Mo like, “coming in before practice is probably harder”…since then, it’s been my routine….a lot of people looked at the emotions on the court and thought Russ was loud, nah to me, he was quiet and methodical. He lead by example and once the lights were bright, he let everything out and experienced pure freedom. It was inspiring as his teammate and everywhere I went, I seen it inspire people from all walks of life, crazy thing is, he didn’t say much, he just showed up. For 18 years. This basketball life is sacred to us as professionals, what we put into that court means everything. Some of us wish we could go back and do things with a little more intent and some can just wipe their hands and be satisfied with the time spent. Who u gonna be? We know what zero was on…keep inspiring in the next phase of life champ. I don’t care what happens, can’t erase what it was…The first YNs, finals run in our early 20s, all star games, seeing each other get injured and bounce back, the bus rides, plane rides, card games, jokes and arguments, the whole thing, memorable!! …to the whole Westbrook family, Nina, the kids, mama Westbrook, big Russ, Ray, Donnell, everybody from luezinger high and ucla and many more that I’m forgettin, much love and Congratulations on a iconic career.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Polymarket Hoops @PolymarketHoops]

Russell Westbrook all-time PG ranks:

— 1st in points
— 1st in rebounds
— 1st in triple-doubles
— 4th in assists

[NBA @NBA]

'WHAT A PERFECT ENDING TO A HISTORIC DAY!"

A game-winner to cap a 50-point, 16-rebound, 10-assist night AND his record-breaking 42nd triple-double, which passed Oscar Robertson for the single-season record 🤯

April 9, 2017 was SPECIAL. Congrats on an amazing 18-year NBA career, Russ!

[NBA @NBA]

RUSSELL WESTBROOK'S 2016-17 SEASON WAS ONE FOR THE AGES.

🔥 31.6 PPG (led NBA)
🔥 10.7 RPG (10th in NBA)
🔥 10.4 APG (3rd in NBA)
🔥 42 triple-doubles (most ever in a season)
🔥 2nd player ever to average triple-double
🔥 Kia NBA MVP

Congrats on retirement, @russwest44!

[ESPN @espn]

Why not leave a legacy?

Thank you, Russ.

[NBA @NBA]

Congrats on a remarkable 18-year NBA career, Russ! 👏

2016-17 Kia NBA MVP
9x NBA All-Star
9x All-NBA
2x NBA scoring champion
5th all-time in assists
All-time leader in triple-doubles
NBA 75th Anniversary Team member

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Russell Westbrook had the WILDEST stat lines 🤯🔥

1 OF 1... TRIPLE-DOUBLE GOAT 🐐

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

Brodie retires as the triple-double king 👑

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.

You had to be there. And now it’s over.

[OKC THUNDER @okcthunder]

RUSSELL 💙 🧡

To a legend on and off the floor, congrats on retirement and thank you for everything you gave to the city @russwest44