Russell Westbrook started 18 games for the Denver Nuggets last season when Aaron Gordon was out and averaged 18/7/7 on 52% FG and 40% 3FG.

Was averaging 15/4/3 off the bench in the playoffs before fracturing his hand.

Everyone’s still blaming him for the Wolves’ game last year, but Bruce Brown and Braun missed layups and had turnovers in G6 , but their names aren’t Westbrook, so it doesn’t matter.

Was a plug and play starter that could actually feed Jokic the ball. At his worst, he’s still better than Braun and BB

Russell Westbrook would be better rim protector than Jokic

Westbrook might have won this game for the nuggets with rebounding alone.

Some of y’all don’t watch Ball and it shows. You’re telling me Mr Cocaine Bear triple double couldn’t boost the vibes of the Denver nuggets and help them defeat a scrappy Minnesota team while last year the same guy did that and helped take the team to Game 7 against the eventual champs WHILE on a minimum contract and everyone’s saying “no the money was better for Bruce Brown” or whoever.

None of you watch Ball

They chose bruce brown over russ because of vibez🤣

Very unfortunate how Denver disregarded him like that. His rebounding, defense in the trenches and playmaking is always a premium

Thank you for putting some respect on my boy Russ’s name. Class act and one of a kind fierce competitor.

Nuggets were soft this whole series. One thing Russ had was moxie and he never lost heart last year. Nuggets asking him to not pickup the player option was so disrespectful

Ya, I don’t get it. He was as valuable as Jokic by the salary. Not happy he wasn’t back

The only team that wanted him was the Kings

He was a big reason for their win over the Clippers.

Not saying Denver would have won championship but I don’t understand choosing Brown, Braun, Pickett, Hardaway ove Russ, he’s not a great shooter but far better overall than those bums

Our boy brodie would have won them this totally and not shoot 30/22/65 splits and run around looking mean

Mitwestbrook get in here

They were busy holding Jonas hostage

You need heart and dawg energy in the playoffs. They could have used his personality this series.

I love Russ but he’s not changing anything for them

Russ is an all time great player and all time great nugget.

Westbrook gives and takes

He went 3-19 in two back to back losses against OKC last after they went up 2-1. No shit they don’t want him back.

Ah yes, because Russ’ team is doing so well this year.

Yes, Russ would be the saviour of the Nuggets 🙄

Russ was terrible second round, though, that was due to injury but it’s still baffling they didn’t take a chance on him since he was free

Disappointed this wasn’t an MITWestbrook post

Westbrook would have brought the nuggets a championship.

The biggest mistake that nuggets made was to get rid of westbrook and rely on guys like strawther pickett and bruce brown. All of them are inconsistent and unreliable in the playoffs and unlike westbrook they don’t have the dog in them

Haha love that the NBA GMs just got assigned god-like powers.

tough situation for him honestly

Was he supposed to help Denver beat Minnesota?

Theres more context to this

Nuggets didn’t offer him an extension on his 2 year deal and he obviously wanted a bigger role and more money…so he went to another team

yeah russ the known playoff winner would’ve been the difference maker, i guess generationally bad series losses create generationally bad posts

okay and?

They would’ve lost this series in 5 if WB was starting for them lmao just cause WB didn’t get the chance to show you why he sucks in the playoffs doesn’t mean he would have helped this Denver team.

The Nuggets get swept if Russ plays. 

Yeah, Westbrook is why the Nuggets lost this year. Look how good the kings were.

Just cos Denver lost doesn’t mean its because they didn’t have Westbrook. Anyone who thinks that needs to go back and watch the OKC series.

No one wanted Westbrick, that’s why he’s on the Kangz and he’ll retire as a Kang.