Law Murray of the Athletic, one of the Clippers’ lead beat writers, dropped another Nugget on Twitter amidst all the James Harden hubbub, but about free agent Russell Westbrook.
There’s nothing firm in there, just that Russell Westbrook won’t be a quick free agent signing and is not a lock to return to the Clippers. This makes sense, especially given the Harden news.
While Russell Westbrook and Harden have played together twice, including as recently as 2020, those situations were very different than playing with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard. That would be four players who all need the ball in their hands a lot, and as a four-some would be not particularly great defensively, very old, and injury-prone. If the Clippers do land Harden, I think that the chances of Russ going elsewhere increase.
For now, we will just sit and wait and watch the Harden saga unfold. It seems like a decision will be reached sooner than later.
