{"id":213668,"date":"2021-05-04T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=213668"},"modified":"2021-05-04T10:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:31:23","slug":"scott-brooks-westbrook-is-the-second-best-point-guard-ever-behind-magic-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/scott-brooks-westbrook-is-the-second-best-point-guard-ever-behind-magic-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brooks: Westbrook is the second best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Brooks praised Russell Westbrook after 14-point, 21-rebounds and 24-assist performance against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXqf0Zuyisg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/31386077\/washington-wizards-russell-westbrook-21-boards-24-assists-vs-pacers-securing-triple-double-average-4th-career\">Per ESPN,<\/a> Westbrook had 14 points to go along with his career-high 21 rebounds and career-high-tying 24 assists for his league-leading 32nd triple-double of the season. He has 178 triple-doubles, three short of Oscar Robertson&#8217;s career record, with seven games remaining this season for Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s performance guarantees that Westbrook will average a triple-double in a season for the fourth time in his career; Robertson is the only other player to do this, and he did it once, in 1961-62.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Point guards don&#8217;t do what he does. He&#8217;s not normal; they&#8217;re not built that way,&#8221; Wizards coach Scott Brooks said. &#8220;There may be someone that probably shoots better. There might be someone that probably can do certain things better. But there&#8217;s nobody in the history of the game that can do what he does throughout the stat sheet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to always say he&#8217;s going to probably go down as the third-best point guard ever, but I think he&#8217;s passed one. He&#8217;s going to go down as probably the second best, and [No. 1] is obviously Magic [Johnson]. He&#8217;s underappreciated. What he does, there are no point guards ever done it, nobody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s underappreciated. 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