{"id":975,"date":"2025-05-26T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:52:50","slug":"the-strange-twilight-of-russell-westbrook-the-nbas-ultimate-fetish-player-aaron-timms-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/the-strange-twilight-of-russell-westbrook-the-nbas-ultimate-fetish-player-aaron-timms-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe strange twilight of Russell Westbrook, the NBA\u2019s ultimate fetish player\u201d &#8211; Aaron Timms (Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAt this point Westbrook\u2019s 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 and has since had to negotiate a sequence of career-threatening injuries seems to have little room left to run. And if there\u2019s one thing Westbrook needs to sustain himself as a basketballing force, it\u2019s room to run\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/19\/russell-westbrook-denver-nuggets-nba\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/may\/19\/russell-westbrook-denver-nuggets-nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt this point Westbrook\u2019s 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 \u2013 coming close to the pinnacle first with the 2012 Thunder, whose trio of Westwood, Kevin Durant, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}