Russell Westbrook trade rumors: Rating the interest all 29 remaining NBA teams might have in Lakers guard

We go into every offseason believing that Russell Westbrook will be impossible to trade … and then he gets traded. It’s becoming a bit of a tradition. Even before his disastrous season with the Los Angeles Lakers, common sense dictated that no team would want to add a post-prime point guard who couldn’t shoot on a supermax contract. Eventually, someone always does.

There’s going to be a faction of the basketball-viewing public that scoffs at the idea that the Lakers can trade Westbrook after the season he just had. That notion seems far less ridiculous once you divorce yourself of the notion that a Russell Westbrook trade needs to have anything to do with Russell Westbrook. Unlike previous offseasons, the team trying to trade him no longer needs to convince some sucker to take on his long-term deal. Once Westbrook inevitably picks up his player option, he becomes a $47 million expiring contract. That has value no matter what player it is attached to.

Source: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/russell-westbrook-trade-rumors-rating-the-interest-all-29-remaining-nba-teams-might-have-in-lakers-guard/