{"id":463781,"date":"2025-10-10T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463781"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:40:07","slug":"danny-green-denver-nuggets-were-not-planning-on-to-play-westbrook-these-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/danny-green-denver-nuggets-were-not-planning-on-to-play-westbrook-these-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Green: &#8220;Denver Nuggets were not planning on to play Westbrook these year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"170\">Danny Green, former player and NBA champion now turned analyst, has revealed some behind-the-scenes details about Russell Westbrook\u2019s departure from the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"368\">According to the former Spurs and Raptors player, among other reasons, Westbrook reportedly decided not to stay in Denver because the franchise was not willing to guarantee him any playing time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"432\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Here\u2019s what Green said during his podcast <em data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"431\">\u201cGreenRoomInside\u201d<\/em>: \u201cFrom what I heard is that they were not planning on to play him at all this year, even behind certain guys that he should be above.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"432\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Westbrook now is still free agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russell Westbrook reportedly opted out of his contract with the Nuggets because Denver had no plans to include him in the rotation and intended to keep him at the end of the bench, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DGreen_14?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DGreen_14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I heard is that they were not planning on to play him at all this year,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zSKYPZYJl\">pic.twitter.com\/4zSKYPZYJl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1976450427227975889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Green, former player and NBA champion now turned analyst, has revealed some behind-the-scenes details about Russell Westbrook\u2019s departure from the Denver Nuggets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":410395,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-463781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/russell-westbrook-nuggets-denver.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463781","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463781"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463781"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463781"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}