Mr. Triple-Double ends 18-year NBA career
LOS ANGELES – Former NBA Most Valuable Player Russell Westbrook, the league’s triple-double king, has “decided to step away” after 18 seasons in the league.
The 37-year-old point guard posted an enigmatic farewell video narrated by actor Michael B. Jordan and captioned: “You had to be there. And now it’s over.”
Westbrook, a nine-time NBA All-Star and an Olympic gold medallist, twice led the league in scoring.
He spent 11 seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder, teaming with Kevin Durant and James Harden to win the Western Conference title in 2012 before falling to the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.
He earned MVP honors with the Thunder in 2017.
That season he broke Oscar Robertson’s venerable record for triple doubles in a regular season, amassing 42 games with double digit totals in three key statistical categories.
Robertson’s record of 41 triple-doubles had stood since the 1961-62 campaign and Westbrook broke it in spectacular fashion on April 9, 2017, with his third 50-point triple-double of that season.
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