Russell Westbrook Who is Russell Westbrook? How did he get his fame? How old is Russell Westbrook? These are many questions people will ask.. and yes I’m about to answer them! Russell Westbrook is one of the most dominant players in the basketball league today. He is ranked #1 for the best NBA player this year. Russell Westbrook had a good high school and college career, he is having a great NBA career putting up massive numbers pretty much every game! He leads the NBA in Points Per Game (PPG) and Assist Per Game (APG) and is also Top 10 in Rebounds Per Game (RPG) and he is a guard! Who is Russell Westbrook? Russell Westbrook is a professional athlete, who plays basketball for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA. Russell Westbrook was …show more content…
born on November 12, 1988, if you did the calculations right, he is 29 years of age today, pretty young for an NBA player, he has lots of years left and is already putting up magnificent numbers! “Russell Westbrook was born in Long Beach, California but grew up in Hawthorne.” Russell Westbrook’s parents are by the name of Russell Westbrook Sr. and Shannon Horton, he has a younger brother named Raynard. “Russell Westbrook’s bestfriend died during a pickup game from an enlarged heart of May 2004, him and Russell both had hopes of playing college basketball for UCLA University.” As one can see, many know who Russell Westbrook is, if you didn’t hopefully you do now. Credits to “Wikipedia” for giving me great information and enough research for you to understand and realize who Russell Westbrook is, and how he got his fame. Non-Professional Career! Russell Westbrook played for Luezinger in High School and Division 1 team in college the UCLA Bruins. Westbrook didn’t start until his junior year of high school. “As a freshman in high school Russell only stood 5’8”. That’s pretty short but taller than some others. In college, Westbrook and the UCLA Bruins made the Final Four both years. Therefore, as you see Russell Westbrook wasn’t the best before the NBA but he still had some crazy skills! Professional Career! “Russell Westbrook was drafted by the Seattle Supersonics in the 2008 NBA draft which changed there team name to the Oklahoma City Thunder.” He was drafted 4th pick overall in the first round.
Russell Westbrook was the starting point guard first game in the NBA, his rookie season wasn’t the best but he did put up some magnificent numbers, he didn’t get rookie of the year that season but he they did get out of the first round unfortunately to the Miami Heat. His second year, they came back and got in the NBA playoffs once again, and fell short the second round to the San Antonio Spurs, he didn’t put up excellent numbers that year but they were pretty good for a point guard and only second year in the NBA. Russell Westbrook has won a pretty good amount of awards for just being 29 years old, he has won the NBA All Star Game MVP for the last 2 seasons (2015-2016) most likely winning it again this year the way he is playing, he also was selected on all first team in 2016. Last season, Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder was tryna seek an NBA Championship but fell short in the conference finals to the Golden State Warriors, this would have been the first ring Russell Westbrook would have won! This season now, Russell Westbrook is tryna beat an NBA record for most triple doubles in one season (10+ Points, 10+ Rebounds, 10+ Assist) he is at 28 right now and the record is 41, which was set by the great Oscar Roberson.. and Russell Westbrook is having a crazy and
outstanding year putting up crazy and insane numbers, his fame is getting bigger and bigger by a blink of an eye. As one can see, Russell Westbrook is one of the most dominant players in the NBA today! Now as should see and know who Russell Westbrook is and how good of a non professional career and what fantastic numbers he’s putting up in the NBA! Russell Westbrook is ranked #1 PG this year by all NBA scouts. He leads in Points Per Game and Assist Per Game and is top 10 in Rebounds Per Game and he is only a point guard. Americans all around the world know of Russell Westbrook, his fame is getting bigger and bigger. He is averaging a triple double this season! Westbrook has impacted me a whole lot in life, to always try in everything you do and to never take anything in life for granted and to always treat people how you would want to be treated and never try to act better than anyone else. Westbrook is very humble, and also grew up having a rough time. Westbrook’s parents lost there jobs when he was 4, and they seemed to go down hill afterwards and him and his brother always had to earn things in life. Big thank you to “Wikipedia” for giving me great information and research for me to complete this assignment. This concludes my article on Russell Westbrook! (Wikipedia, 2015)
Michael Jordan, in his prime, was thought of as one of the greatest basketball champions of all time. A shooting guard, standing at six-six, Jordan was able to out play anyone in his position. He started his career at the University of North Carolina, where he helped his team win a national championship. He then was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984-85 season. While playing for the Bulls, Jordan received many awards such as, MVP, five championships, Olympic gold medals, slam dunk contests, and many more defensive and offensive awards. Jordan simply dominated the nineties and left the game as a NBA Finals winner in 1998.
The source that I used, “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” by Biography.com no authors are listed is a great source that gave me a lot of information that will help me with my reader response essay. I came across this website by entering my search question into Google. After looking through a dozen of articles “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” had the most detailed information of all the links. This article gave me a lot of information that will be correlating to my search question which is this: What major influences did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have in his basketball career? The “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Biography” article had three sections that broke
Most don’t understand that Russ probably HAS to put up triple doubles for them to have a chance to win every night. Just imagine where the Thunder would be without Russell Westbrook. I get it, Stephen Curry is still one of the best players in the league.
Steve Nash is considered one of the greatest point guards in the first decade of NBA, and he already became a national hero in Canada based on his tremendous achievement as a professional basketball player. However, according to his interview, Nash was considered a player without sufficient talent to be even a good college player in the United States. No college was willing to offer him a scholarship initially, because he was a Caucasian player from Canada. Caucasian players were widely considered as athletic inferior to African players, and Canada was also considered a country that has few talented basketball players. This is a typical stereotype about Caucasian basketball players in NBA, and usually
Over the last two seasons, Steph Curry has propelled himself into the conversation as not only the best overall point guard in the league, but also the best overall player in the league. He’s the two-time defending league MVP, the reigning scoring champion, and has been the best player on the last two Western Conference Champions.
Everybody had high expectations about him, they were seeing in him a new leader, a new beginning for the Pistons. He didn’t prove anybody wrong. He started at the 1995 all-star game after becoming the first rookie ever to lead all players in fan voting. Along with Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks, were co-voted as the Rookie Players of the Year. In the next four seasons, he started in all all-star games and averaged 23.2 Points Per Game, 7.6 Rebounds Per Game and 6.7 Assist Per Game.
...th American sport) led the NBA to name the finals MVP award after him. Russell was also one of the most genuinely liked players around the league, mostly for how he respected the game and everyone who played it. Even in his fiercest rivalries, many of which involved Wilt Chamberlain, the other dominant big man in the game at the time. He never let what happened on the floor impact how he treated him off the floor, and vice versa. There have been countless documentaries and books written about him all of which express how well liked he was along with his tremendous success. To me, he is one the prime examples of a star player on and off the court. He never let his talent or popularity take away from the morals he learned as a child and kept them with him all along. A quality, which I believe, everyone wishes to carry in their lives, wherever their path may take them.
The NBA is well known for the number of amazing professional athletes it has had over the years. Some of the most gifted and talented individuals come through the NBA and one of the better-known superstars is none other than Kobe Bryant. For years people have wondered what makes Bryant so successful. The main contributors that lead to Kobe Bryant’s success is his hard work and dedication, his mindset, his natural ability’s and talent, and the people that have helped him throughout his life. Kobe Bryant was very successful in the NBA because of the amount of hard work he has put in, the people in his life, his relentless determination and his god given natural abilities.
As a 5’9” sophomore in high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, he tried out for his school’s basketball team but wasn’t good enough, neither tall enough, to make it. He then practiced throughout the year and came back as a 6’3” junior to try out. With his improved skills and After graduating from high school, he accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina. In his first season at Carolina, he became the second Tarheel player to start in every game as a freshman and was named Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year (1982). At the end of his freshman year, he made the game-winning shot against Georgetown University for the championship of the NCAA. The Sporting News named him college player of the year in 1983 and in 1984. He left North Caro...
On August 21,1936 in Philadelphia, PA one of the best basketball Players ever to play the game was born. That player name was Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt chamberlain was the man the took over the 1959-1973 era of basketball.
Lebron James has been arguably the most dominant athlete in the past twenty years. He was drafted in 2003 by the Cleveland Cavaliers out of high school when he was 18 years old. In his 15-year career so far James had averaged 27.2 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 7.2 assists (Elias Sports Bureau 1). Many people, such as Scottie Pippen, has said Lebron was better than Michael Jordan ( International Business Times 1).
First, we will celebrate LeBron James’s accomplishments in the NBA. There are over 400 players in the NBA. These players are on the battlefield, fighting day after day because they all know only one can become the Most Valuable Player. LeBron James rose above all, claiming the MVP award, not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 times. Not only is LeBron James an MVP, but he is also a 13-time All-Star player. LeBron James garnered enough votes from the fans, the players, and the media to become an All-Star like a presidential candidate getting enough votes from the voters to become the President.
Kevin Durant, born September 29, 1998, to Wanda and Wayne Pratt in a small county a short distance from Washington D.C. called PG County. His father left the family before his 1st birthday and did not return until Kevin was about 13 years old. Kevin kept his mom’s maiden name because his dad was not in the picture. When Durant was young, he lived with his mom and older brother. “You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it” (newsok.com). Durant was one of four children and he liked to play sports with his sister Brianna. He
Some interesting facts about Kevin Durant is that he wears a backpack to every single press conference. He had amazing stats in his career as a Texas Longhorn Athlete. He hit a high of 37 points no less than 3 times in College. He averaged 25.8 points as a freshman year moving to the NBA the following
Drafted by the Lakers right out of high school, Bryant has been playing with the Los Angeles Lakers since he was seventeen years old. By his second season, he was already named an All-Star. Through his talent and hard work, Bryant became a cornerstone for the Lakers, leading them to five NBA championship victories.