{"id":509354,"date":"2026-08-10T21:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509354"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:10:34","slug":"hapoel-tel-aviv-showing-serious-interest-for-russell-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-tel-aviv-showing-serious-interest-for-russell-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Tel Aviv showing serious interest for Russell Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Westbrook could be facing a major turning point in his career. According to The Athletic, Hapoel Tel Aviv has expressed strong interest in the veteran guard, with talks between the two sides continuing to progress.<\/p>\n<p>Westbrook is also reportedly seriously considering playing overseas next season. If the move is completed, it would mark the 37-year-old\u2019s first professional experience outside the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">REPORT: Russell <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Westbrook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Westbrook<\/a> and Hapoel Tel Aviv reportedly have mutual interest, with talks between the two sides continuing to expand. The former MVP is seriously considering a move overseas this season. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A deal would mark the first time Westbrook plays\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y6dCDrixPn\">pic.twitter.com\/Y6dCDrixPn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Jacobs (@MJacobsLF) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MJacobsLF\/status\/2086487433668108338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former MVP is reportedly seriously considering a move to Europe for the first time in his professional career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":378228,"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":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Hapoel-Tel-Aviv.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509354","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509354"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509354"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509354"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}