{"id":218138,"date":"2026-01-03T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218138\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:38:12","slug":"russell-westbrook-passes-oscar-robertson-to-become-highest-scoring-point-guard-in-nba-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/218138\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook passes Oscar Robertson to become highest scoring point guard in NBA history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a driving layup midway through the fourth quarter Friday night, Russell Westbrook made history. <\/p>\n<p>Westbrook passed the legendary Oscar Robertson to become the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer among point guards with 26,711 points.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brodie passes The Big O \ud83d\udc51\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009<br \/>\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009\u2009<br \/>Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russwest44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@russwest44<\/a> for becoming the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer for a point guard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GOeQmKihE8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GOeQmKihE8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SacramentoKings\/status\/2007308333171290474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Westbrook, a future Hall of Famer, is now 15th all-time in the NBA in scoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know that he broke another record tonight. He continues to break records,\u201d Kings coach Doug Christie said postgame. \u201cRuss is a freak of nature. His competitiveness, his competitive drive, his spirit to continue to play as hard as he does, I think this is year 18 or whatever it is. Always been a fan of his and it\u2019s an absolute honor to coach him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Westbrook finished with 17 points and teammate Keegan Murray had 23 for Sacramento, but it was not near enough on a night Devin Booker had 33 to lead the Suns to a comfortable 129-102 victory.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a driving layup midway through the fourth quarter Friday night, Russell Westbrook made history. Westbrook passed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-218138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}