{"id":448942,"date":"2025-06-30T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448942"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:05:08","slug":"new-york-knicks-interested-in-russell-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-york-knicks-interested-in-russell-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks Interested In Russell Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1268\" data-end=\"1551\">The <strong data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1306\">New York Knicks<\/strong> are considering <strong data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1344\">Russell Westbrook<\/strong> as a potential free agent target to bolster their backcourt depth. Westbrook, who spent last season with the <strong data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1472\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>, averaged <strong data-start=\"1483\" data-end=\"1548\">13.3 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 6.1 assists with a PER of 14.1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1816\">Westbrook <strong data-start=\"1563\" data-end=\"1606\">declined his $3.4 million player option<\/strong> with the Nuggets, becoming a free agent. The Knicks could provide him with meaningful minutes, addressing their need for backcourt depth while surrounding him with sufficient shooting to maximize his impact.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1818\" data-end=\"1959\">The <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1840\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong> are interested in retaining Westbrook, while the <strong data-start=\"1890\" data-end=\"1910\">Sacramento Kings<\/strong> have also shown interest in the veteran guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran guard emerges as a potential target for New York&#8217;s backcourt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448942"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448942"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448942"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}