{"id":509765,"date":"2026-08-13T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509765"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:06:17","slug":"thunder-celebrate-russell-westbrooks-legendary-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thunder-celebrate-russell-westbrooks-legendary-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Celebrate Russell Westbrook\u2019s Legendary Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma City Thunder shared a message celebrating Russell Westbrook\u2019s career after the nine-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/russell-westbrook-retires-from-the-nba-former-mvp-and-triple-double-king-calls-it-a-career\/\">announced his retirement<\/a> from professional basketball yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Russell Westbrook is the ultimate competitor. His internal belief and unbridled fearlessness helped establish the foundation of our organization from day one in 2008 and he elevated the confidence and inspired our community in every year thereafter. Russell will be as successful in his life after basketball as he was during his career because his qualities and gifts transfer. His impact on our community is still felt today, and he is beloved for his devotion as much as his talent. He built a Hall of Fame career not by making statements or simply by breaking records, he did it by showing us all the power of asking one simple question: Why Not?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2017 NBA MVP spent his first 11 NBA seasons with the Thunder, where he holds several all-time franchise records, including total points, free throws made and triple-doubles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thunder Executive Vice President and General Manager Sam Presti:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russell Westbrook is the ultimate competitor.<\/p>\n<p>His internal belief and unbridled fearlessness helped establish the foundation of our organization from day one in 2008 and he elevated the confidence and inspired\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/okcthunder\/status\/2087669162504011869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RUSSELL \ud83d\udc99 \ud83e\udde1<\/p>\n<p>To a legend on and off the floor, congrats on retirement and thank you for everything you gave to the city <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/russwest44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@russwest44<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n6MqJqKaH9\">pic.twitter.com\/n6MqJqKaH9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/okcthunder\/status\/2087705901079691469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 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 Thunder selected Westbrook with the fourth overall pick of the 2008 NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":509764,"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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509765","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\/2026\/08\/HPkEqclXMAARVzf.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509765","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509765"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509765"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509765"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}