{"id":455268,"date":"2025-08-14T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=455268"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:51:51","slug":"sacramento-kings-are-the-only-team-seriously-interested-in-russel-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sacramento-kings-are-the-only-team-seriously-interested-in-russel-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings are the only team seriously interested in Russel Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"139\">The Sacramento Kings seem to be the only team seriously in the running to sign Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"376\">The NBA MVP of the 2016\u201317 season, after a year as sixth man with the Denver Nuggets, is still a free agent, and after almost two months of free agency, the only serious offer he appears to have received is from the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"784\">However, there\u2019s a problem. Before signing Westbrook, Sacramento needs to free up cap space. 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