{"id":956136,"date":"2026-11-03T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956136\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:02:10","slug":"thunder-to-honour-former-nba-mvp-russell-westbrook-by-retiring-his-no-0-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956136\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder to honour former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook by retiring his No. 0 in February"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russell Westbrook speaks during the Zeta Live conference at David Geffen Hall last month in New York.Evan Agostini\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced Monday they will honour former league MVP Russell Westbrook by retiring his No. 0 in February.<\/p>\n

Westbrook, 37, played 11 of his 18 NBA seasons with Oklahoma City and retired as team leader in games (821), points (18,859), rebounds (5,760), assists (6,897), steals (1,442), field goals (6,626) and minutes (28,329).<\/p>\n

During that span he helped lead the Thunder to the third-best record in the NBA (.607; 538-348). The Thunder reached the NBA finals in 2012, reached the playoffs nine times and made four Western Conference finals appearances.<\/p>\n

He was named MVP for the 2016-17 season after averaging a league-best 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds, 10.4 assists and 1.63 steals in 34.6 minutes per game to become the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season. His 42 triple-doubles that season are an NBA record and his 209 career triple-doubles mark the most in NBA history.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany players make an impact but only great players leave a legacy. Russell Westbrook\u2019s legacy was built both on the court and in the community,\u201d Thunder general manager Sam Presti said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis mindset was relentless, his commitment deep. For all those reasons, Oklahomans consider him one of their own and his number will be raised to the rafters, in Oklahoma City forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Westbrook\u2019s number will be retired on Feb. 7 when the Thunder host the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Russell Westbrook speaks during the Zeta Live conference at David Geffen Hall last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,459,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-956136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-nba","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}