{"id":215740,"date":"2025-10-15T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215740\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:21:03","slug":"russell-westbrook-signs-one-year-deal-with-sacramento-kings-for-18th-nba-season-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/215740\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook signs one-year deal with Sacramento Kings for 18th NBA season | Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Nine-time NBA All-Star Russell Westbrook has agreed to sign with the Sacramento Kings, ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46604692\/russell-westbrook-agrees-join-kings-18th-nba-season\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed Wednesday<\/a> through his agent Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management. The 2017 MVP joins the Kings ahead of his 18th NBA season, giving Sacramento an experienced option in a backcourt that lacked depth a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Westbrook, who turns 37 in November, spent last season with the Denver Nuggets, averaging 13.3 points, 6.1 assists and 4.9 rebounds in 75 games while shooting 44.9% from the field. He remained unsigned through the summer as he weighed options before finalizing terms with the Kings this week. He\u2019s expected to join the team later this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Kings ranked 28th in bench scoring and 29th in assists per game last season, areas where Westbrook\u2019s playmaking and energy could make an immediate impact. Perry has emphasized building a team that plays with effort and urgency, traits that have defined Westbrook\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Westbrook is the NBA\u2019s all-time leader in triple-doubles (203) and ranks eighth in assists. He enters the season 506 points shy of surpassing Oscar Robertson as the highest-scoring point guard in league history. Sacramento will be his seventh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nba\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a> team, following stints with Oklahoma City, Houston, Washington, the Lakers, Clippers and Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine-time NBA All-Star Russell Westbrook has agreed to sign with the Sacramento Kings, ESPN confirmed Wednesday through his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-215740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}