Maligned MVP traded in bombshell three-team deal

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One-time NBA MVP Russell Westbrook is poised to power teams successful a blockbuster commercialized involving 7 different players.

Westbrook, 34, will articulation Utah Jazz successful what volition beryllium his 5th squad successful 5 years.

It brings to an extremity a failed two-year stint successful Los Angeles wherever the Lakers had hoped his acquisition would elevate the squad backmost to rubric contention, but alternatively they failed to marque the playoffs past year.

Westbrook volition articulation the Jazz alongside Juan Toscano-Anderson and Damian Jones, arsenic good arsenic a 2027 first-round pick, according to starring NBA newsman Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Lakers volition summation Minnesota trio D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Jarred Vanderbilt, portion the Timberwolves volition get Mike Conley and Nickeil Alexander-Walker.

Westbrook was erstwhile 1 of the champion players successful the league, and reached his highest during an 11-year vocation astatine Oklahoma City wherever helium made the All-Star squad 8 times, arsenic good arsenic the coveted grant for the league's champion subordinate successful 2017.

This play he's been relegated to the seat for the Lakers, though has inactive managed 4 triple-doubles - 1 of lone six players to bash truthful this campaign.

Westbrook has reached the last play of a five-year hold helium had signed with the Thunder successful 2017, truthful volition go a escaped cause aft this season.

The Lakers had planed for Westbrook to prima successful a stacked squad including LeBron James and Anthony Davis, but the matrimony has not calved fruit.

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