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Russell Westbrook Accomplishments

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Russell Westbrook was born on November 12, 1988, in Long Beach, California. Westbrook grew up loving the game of basketball from his dad who was really big on the sport. Russell’s dad was a playground star and spent countless hours teaching his son the sport. Russell practiced drills everyday because his dad wanted him to become a basketball star. Aside from basketball Russell’s mom made him really focus on academics which set Russell up for becoming an honor student.
During high school Westbrook was only 5’8” tall, so not many colleges wanted him since he had such a little frame. Russell was starting in high school as a Junior, that summer he had a growth spurt. After he got more height he became a very big college prospect. Westbrook was …show more content…

Teammate Kevin Durant was drafted one before him as the third overall pick in the draft. A couple of days after this the seattle supersonics relocated and were called the oklahoma city thunder.
In Westbrooks first year in the nba he recorded very good numbers averaging fifteen points per game with plenty of assists and rebounds to go along with them. Another achievement for Russell was making NBA all rookie first team. By Westbrooks third season he could officially be called a star in the nba leading his team to the 2011 western conference finals. Although Westbrook averaged quite a bit of points against the miami heat in this series it was no match for the heat’s super team. Later on after the playoffs Westbrook played for the USA men's basketball team and won his first olympic gold medal.
During the 2013 playoffs Russell suffered a career threatening injury when he tore his meniscus. Westbrook would end up sitting out most of the regular season. Once Westbrook came back from his injury almost immediately teammate kevin durant had a foot injury and missed basically the whole 2014-2015 season. With Westbrook now being basically the only real scoring option he went off and recorded six triple doubles from eight games and averaged 28.7 points per game. Although Russell had a very nice season the Oklahoma city thunder did not succeed in making the

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