Westbrook agrees to join Kings for 18th season

Nine-time NBA All-Star Russell Westbrook has agreed connected a woody to motion with the Sacramento Kings, cause Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management told ESPN.

Westbrook and the Kings maintained connection each offseason arsenic the 2017 NBA MVP remained diligent successful escaped bureau and present lands a woody for his 18th season. Westbrook has bonds with Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine, past alongside Dennis Schroder successful the backcourt and with adjunct GM BJ Armstrong connected the bureau side, and shared respect for GM Scott Perry and manager Doug Christie.

Westbrook is expected to officially articulation the squad aboriginal this week, sources said.

Westbrook gives Sacramento immoderate much-needed backcourt extent arsenic a constituent defender capable to play arsenic a starter oregon reserve. The Kings could usage his seat presence, arsenic the squad ranked 28th successful seat points per crippled and 29th successful seat assists per crippled past season.

In his archetypal play arsenic Kings GM, Perry has made wide that the franchise wants a squad civilization of precocious centrifugal and precocious effort -- attributes that Westbrook has displayed implicit his NBA career.

In 75 games and 36 starts for the Denver Nuggets past season, Westbrook averaged 13.3 points, 6.1 assists, 4.9 rebounds and 1.4 steals portion shooting 44.9 percent from the field. Westbrook changeable 52% connected 2-pointers successful 2024-25, the champion successful a play successful his career.

Westbrook has travel disconnected the seat successful 145 of his 216 games played implicit the past 3 seasons portion finishing top-10 successful Sixth Man of the Year voting successful each year.

Westbrook, who turns 37 years aged successful November, has the astir triple-doubles successful NBA past (203) and is 1 of 2 players ever to play successful the league to station 25,000 points, 8,000 rebounds and 8,000 assists, on with LeBron James. Westbook has 26,205 points truthful acold successful his vocation and needs different 506 to surpass Oscar Robertson arsenic the highest-scoring constituent defender successful NBA history. Westbrook besides ranks eighth all-time successful vocation assists and needs 75 assists to go the eighth subordinate with 10,000 vocation assists successful league history.

Since leaving the Oklahoma City Thunder successful 2018-19 arsenic a franchise legend, Westbrook is present connected his sixth squad (Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Lakers, LA Clippers and Nuggets).