Around min 40-45 from Podcast P
I wanted to be fair, so I just revisited ESPN’s Top 50.
Honestly, no room for him there. Every single player there is currently more valuable than Westbrook is (in the eyes of coaches, scouts, and front office personnel).
Top 75 makes sense for him. *Shrugs*.
Nah Russ is my second favorite player of all time, but I’m confident I can name 25 players better than he is right now, though. 70+? I don’t think so
Russ is a bench contributor in extremely limited contexts. I’m not convinced that one of those contexts is a title contender.
For sure top 25 player if the top 100 guys all died
Remember when Melo was ranked like 63 and everyone said it was disrespectful af, but it ended up being kind of generous
Not saying Westbrook deserves that ranking though
Also see the last 4 years of Kobe’s career. Every year people complained and then he ended up being worse than where he was ranked.
Kobe’s last three years are legitimately some of the worst basketball played at an NBA level.
They’re his Jordan Wizard years but he doesn’t get shit for it because he was still a Laker. He gets a lot of praise for his final 60 point game but that was one of the weirdest games of basketball that I’ve seen in my life.
I am not sure how Westbrook made the top 100.
I’d say his carry job performance in their first round exit while the other guys were out has something to do with it
What Carry Job? The only game they won was when Kawhi scored 38.
You can still carry in a loss. Lmao.
He carried them to 4 straight losses; we’re calling that a “Carry Job” now?