{"id":509881,"date":"2026-08-13T23:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509881"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:04:34","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-westbrooks-retirement-a-real-okc-legend-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shai-gilgeous-alexander-on-westbrooks-retirement-a-real-okc-legend-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on Westbrook\u2019s retirement: &#8220;A real OKC legend forever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many NBA stars and players who congratulated Russell Westbrook is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. OKC\u2019s franchise player, a role that once belonged to the veteran from Long Beach, took to social media to share his message.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A real OKC legend forever. Congrats on an amazing career brother . Appreciate your contributions to the game&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A real OKC legend forever. Congrats on an amazing career brother . Appreciate your contributions to the game <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FI74GMWwdG\">https:\/\/t.co\/FI74GMWwdG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (@shaiglalex) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shaiglalex\/status\/2087997562988962216?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\u2019s current franchise player paid tribute to Westbrook, who spent years as the face of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":371897,"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-509881","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\/02\/Oklahoma-City-Thunder.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509881","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=509881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509881"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509881"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509881"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}