{"id":267,"date":"2022-11-11T08:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/chris-haynes-teams-calling-lakers-to-check-russell-westbrooks-availability-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:27:22","slug":"chris-haynes-teams-calling-lakers-to-check-russell-westbrooks-availability-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/chris-haynes-teams-calling-lakers-to-check-russell-westbrooks-availability-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Haynes: Teams calling Lakers to check Russell Westbrook&#8217;s availability &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zkfxeeyh8rb5v9bbu1mm-e1636278613851.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo: AP\/Marcio Jose Sanchez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zkfxeeyh8rb5v9bbu1mm-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zkfxeeyh8rb5v9bbu1mm-e1636278613851.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/zkfxeeyh8rb5v9bbu1mm-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Russell Westbrook Lakers\" title=\"Russell Westbrook Lakers\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: AP\/Marcio Jose Sanchez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russell Westbrook appears to have accepted his new role of coming off the bench for the first time since his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming a leader of the second unit has helped the superstar increase his numbers. While teams were unwilling to do a trade with Lakers that would involve Westbrook, now the things have changed.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10055326-sources-lakers-vips-cant-align-on-how-to-maximize-lebron-james\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report<\/a>, the Lakers are getting calls from other NBA teams that are asking about Russ\u2019 availability. However, the talks have not been serious so far.<\/p>\n<p>This season Westbrook, who turns 34 tomorrow, is averaging 16.1 points,5.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists in 29 minutes per game for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/154068-chris-haynes-teams-calling-lakers-to-check-russell-westbrooks-availability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: AP\/Marcio Jose Sanchez Russell Westbrook appears to have accepted his new role of coming off the bench for the first time since his rookie year. Becoming a leader of the second unit has helped the superstar increase his numbers. While teams were unwilling to do a trade with Lakers that would involve Westbrook, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}