“At this point Westbrook’s drift into a kind of late-career entropy seems unarguable. Those piston arms are still pumping, and the square-jawed stare is undefeated, but the magic is gone. A career that once promised so much – coming close to the pinnacle first with the 2012 Thunder, whose trio of Westwood, Kevin Durant, and James Harden were a kind of younger mirror of the Miami Big Three that eventually orchestrated their finals downfall, and then with the 2016 vintage, famously collapsing from 3-1 up to gift the Western Conference finals to Golden State – and has since had to negotiate a sequence of career-threatening injuries seems to have little room left to run. And if there’s one thing Westbrook needs to sustain himself as a basketballing force, it’s room to run”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/19/russell-westbrook-denver-nuggets-nba