lilfishi22 wrote:Ghost of Kleine wrote:Saberestar wrote:Westbrook is on the Sacramento Kings.
So they actually signed him? When did that finally get done man? Last I heard, China had a big contract offer for him. But nothing yet from the Kings in the way of a commitment.
Feels like a few days ago. Apparently he was looking at around $15m in China but the guy has made $350m in his career (not including sponsorship), I don't think he needs to go to China for a pay day. He seems like he'd rather retire than play overseas, which he's earned imo
Agreed! Very good points man in that he's made enough money and probably just is at that point if not in a good situation for his interests. I do kind of wish he'd been added as our starting PG, because even though he's not a good shooter, he has always been a stat stuffing type intangibles guy that brings relentless energy/ effort that teammates could feed off of.
I know that apparently many want to further promote this whole Point Book narrative as the solution to our point guard problems,
but I for my part still feel it's doing a disservice to Booker's natural role and scoring abilities by playing him at a position that negates his scoring prowess and reduces that to more of a playmaking initiator role for lesser skilled options.
Booker's done admirably well at his new position, but it'll never truly be his best position as he was when he was a lethal scoring threat, now taking that weapon away to play a different role, and push offense through lesser scoring options. But hopefully this experiment somehow out this time.
Westbrook would have given that near triple double threat in other areas while allowing Booker to focus fully on his offensive dominance and natural scoring abilities and Westbrook also feeding the team's energy and efforts contagiously.
