Chris Broussard on Westbrook, Celtics sweep, Top-5 NBA players on rookie deals

Hoops on Fox Podcast

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4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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-Chris Broussard breaks down Russell Westbrook's playoff slump. -The Celtics swept the Pacers on Sunday. -Top-5 players on rookie deals in the NBA. -Does the 76ers need Ben Simmons more than the Warriors need KD? -Do the Lakers need a new GM immediately? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Because Russell Westbrook's legacy is not going to be about winning.
0:07.0	To quietly yell to everyone, I am Kevin Durant.
0:12.0	More encouraged not just by what I saw from the Celtics in these four games,
0:16.0	but this is a culmination of the last couple of months and the way they've been playing.
0:25.3	Chris Broussard here and welcome to the brand new Hoops on Fox podcast.
0:30.6	This podcast will give you your daily dose of all things NBA from Fox Sports,
0:33.4	including the best content from Skipp and Shannon. Nick Wright, plus special guests, fresh NBA content from myself, post-game interviews from NBA stars around the league, and much, much more.
0:42.2	Don't forget to subscribe and leave a five-star review.
0:46.3	Up first, Chris Bursar joined Skip and Shannon to dissect Russell Westbrook's struggles in the playoffs and what's next for the superstar point guard.
0:54.5	How much has Russell's legacy been hurt by this series?
0:58.9	Not at all.
1:00.5	And here's why.
1:02.0	Because Russell Westbrook's legacy is not going to be about winning.
1:06.5	And it's not, I've made peace with Russell Westbrook's legacy.
1:09.9	He's going to have a legacy similar to Alan Iverson, Pistol Pete Marevich, maybe Dominique
1:16.0	Wilkins, where he's this tremendous individual phenon, this spectacle, this whirlwind
1:23.0	who puts up these incredible stats that hardly anybody else has ever done in the triple double case,
1:29.0	no one else has ever done. And that's how we're going to remember him. 10, 20, 30, 40 years
1:35.6	from now, he's going to be an icon. People are going to look back, there was this guy, Russell
1:42.2	Westbrook, average a triple double for three
1:45.3	straight years, maybe four, maybe five, who knows how long he'll keep this going.
1:50.1	Oscar Robertson, Skip, and you know this, when you ask anybody in basketball about Oscar,
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