***The Official 2019-2020 NBA Thread***

[Phenom]

Russell Westbrook to the Rockets

The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul, first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, pick swaps in 2021 and 2025, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 12, 2019

BEST
OFFSEASON
EVER!
WOW

They didn’t have to do Chris Paul like that

I called it ...


Chris Paul is old and Houston don't care about losing a couple of draft picks

[-Swizzy-]

OKC has 15 1st round picks from 2020-2026

I think OKC won this offseason for the long term.

[HanzGruber]

This really makes no sense. I think this makes houston worse. Cp3 May get traded to Miami. No way he wants to play in okc. Will be funny if they keep him tho. Let him rot

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

This really makes no sense. I think this makes houston worse. Cp3 May get traded to Miami. No way he wants to play in okc. Will be funny if they keep him tho. Let him rot

CP3 for PG

[TBear]

Hard to imagine Harden and Westbrook working together with only one ball. Harden felt smothered with Westbrook as many players do. I wonder if he will be like
"this is now my team Russell"!

[Left Hook Tua]

Hard to imagine Harden and Westbrook working together with only one ball. Harden felt smothered with Westbrook as many players do. I wonder if he will be like
"this is now my team Russell"!

Morey doesn't think about stuff like that

Morey is numbers nerd

That's why Houston never makes sense

All he does is crunch numbers and PER

[DreamerUSA]

Hard to imagine Harden and Westbrook working together with only one ball. Harden felt smothered with Westbrook as many players do. I wonder if he will be like
"this is now my team Russell"!

Definitely going to need a rule change to allow two balls on the court for these guys to coexist lol.

[Phenom]

This really makes no sense. I think this makes houston worse. Cp3 May get traded to Miami. No way he wants to play in okc. Will be funny if they keep him tho. Let him rot

CP3 is injury prone old and cost almost as much as Westbrook they basically just off loaded a bad contract

It's a good trade for Houston it makes them relevant in the west

[$Bullsfam$]

I agree. Westbrook does have his faults but the man is in the game 100% each time he goes on the floor. Plenty of people are really forgetting just how good he is. Which is crazy.

As long as he goes to the east though.

I don't think he makes as many waves in the west. Even with Houston. Harden + Westbrook has more red flags on it than title favorite tags. Outside of maybe San Antonio, just because of Pop.

Toronto with Westbrook replacing Lowry, suddenly look like contention for conference finals again. imo

Yeah I don't like this at all for Houston. Westbrook as good as he is, the one thing he isn't is a spot up shooter and he's probably gonna have to play off ball to Harden which might throw off his game. Then again he does average 10 assist so maybe he can help open the offense and take pressure off Harden.

That's another thing tho, people call him a "stat padder", but if getting triple doubles were so damn easy why isn't anybody else even averaging 7-8 boards and assists with 25 points nevertheless the whole triple dub. Only lebron and Harden come close to that but if it was so easy why isn't anybody else doing it?

[digdis]

Yeah I don't like this at all for Houston. Westbrook as good as he is, the one thing he isn't is a spot up shooter and he's probably gonna have to play off ball to Harden which might throw off his game. Then again he does average 10 assist so maybe he can help open the offense and take pressure off Harden.

That's another thing tho, people call him a "stat padder", but if getting triple doubles were so damn easy why isn't anybody else even averaging 7-8 boards and assists with 25 points nevertheless the whole triple dub. Only lebron and Harden come close to that but if it was so easy why isn't anybody else doing it?

It’s not easy and he’s awesome. The only knock on him is how he gets his points. He’s not a good shooter and takes some really crappy, ill-advised shots. Especially in the playoffs. He also sometimes seems to let his emotions get the best of him.