Sacramento Kings star Russell Westbrook started out the New Year by making NBA history.<\/p>\n
Westbrook scored 17 points during a 129-120 Friday night loss to the Phoenix Suns to bring his career total to 26,711 points.<\/p>\n
That moved Westbrook past Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson for 15th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n
It also made Westbrook the highest-scoring point guard in NBA history, according to the NBC Sports broadcast.<\/p>\n
Westbrook is now 236 points short of moving past Houston Rockets icon Hakeem Olajuwon for 14th on the NBA’s all-time leaderboard.<\/p>\n
He went into Friday’s game having averaged 14.4 points in 34 games and 28 starts of his first season with the Kings.<\/p>\n
Westbrook added to that total while shooting 6-for-12 from the field and 1-for-3 from deep for 17 points, while contributing nine rebounds and six assists, in Friday’s loss.<\/p>\n
Those contributions weren’t able to help the Kings compete with the Suns, who made the game a blowout in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The Kings dropped to 8-27 following the defeat. Given Sacramento’s likely status as trade deadline sellers and Westbrook’s expiring one-year contract, there’s a possibility he could be playing for another team later this season as he continues his quest to climb the NBA’s all-time leaderboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings star Russell Westbrook started out the New Year by making NBA history. Westbrook scored 17 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-388509","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\/388509","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=388509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}