Not sure if there is a winner in this trade....wonder how Bradley Beal feels about this and if he'll push his way out of Washington now???
If you believe Bill Simmons, Beal has been pushing for this trade to happen.
Wall and Beal definitely aren’t fans of one another. I think he’ll like Westbrook even less.
I've definitely gotten that vibe, that they just tolerated each other. Also didn't help that Wall referred to Beal as his sidekick.
I think Russ and Beal can work. Kind of like how Russ and Paul George played together.
You would hope that after failing in so many places Westbrook at some point will look at himself and make a change for the better, but some people never change.
Lol. This is his third team. He didn't fail in OKC - unless you consider winning an MVP a failure. And I don't think he failed in Houston. He was 3rd team All-NBA last year.
I know some people don't like his style of play, but there's this irrational hatred for him I don't get.
I think him being a routine failure in the playoffs is why people dislike him. Since Kevin Durant left he's shot 39% from the field, 30% from 3, averaged 5 turnovers per game, and has taken part in one winning series (of which he only played 3 games).
He quite simply has no perspective on basketball, apparently. Has never been able to adjust how he plays in-game if what he's doing isn't working, and struggles immensely to take the back-seat despite other players either being better than him, like Harden and Durant, or merely having better individual games than him, like George often did.