\n\t\t\tOctober 9th 2025 at 10:45am CST by Dana Gauruder \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook<\/a> remains an unsigned free agent and Rockets forward Kevin Durant<\/a> wouldn\u2019t mind a reunion with his former teammate, he said on the \u201cUp & Adams\u201d show (video link<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cRuss is a legend. He deserves to be in the NBA right now,\u201d Durant said. \u201cI think he deserves to walk out of the NBA on his terms. That would be dope.\u201d<\/p>\n If Westbrook is signed in the short term, it won\u2019t be with the Rockets. They\u2019re hard-capped and can\u2019t sign a veteran right now, even if it\u2019s a minimum contract.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s more from around the basketball world:<\/p>\n There are five current openings for WNBA head coaches. Marc Stein of The Stein Line<\/a> hears that several of those teams are considering NBA assistant coaches with G League head coaching experience for those positions. Stein notes that Nate Tibbets had that type of background and is the head coach of the Phoenix Mercury, currently in the WNBA Finals. Former Clippers assistant Natalie Nakase guided Golden State\u2019s WNBA franchise to a winning record in the team\u2019s inaugural season, earning Coach of the Year honors.
\nHapoel Tel Aviv\u2019s Bruno Caboclo<\/a> will miss several months of action after undergoing back surgery, Johnny Askounis of Eurohoops.net<\/a> reports. The NBA veteran big man joined the Reds prior to the 2024\/25 season. He appeared in 23 games last season, including three starts, and averaged 7.4 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest. Caboclo, 30, appeared in 105 NBA games, mostly recently a six-game stint with Houston during the 2020\/21 season.
\nLongtime NBA forward Evan Fournier<\/a> would like to finish his career with Olympiacos, he said in a recent TV interview as relayed by Askounis<\/a>. \u201cI feel very good here and I want to finish my career here,\u201d\u00a0he said,\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s going to happen, but for me that\u2019s the goal.\u201d Fournier signed<\/a> a three-year extension in July. Fournier appeared in 704 regular season games throughout his NBA career, making 504 starts and averaging 13.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 27.7 minutes per night.
\nESPN\u2019s Kevin Pelton<\/a> has unveiled his win total projections for each NBA team, from top (Thunder at 59.2) to bottom (Wizards, 14.2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 9th 2025 at 10:45am CST by Dana Gauruder Russell Westbrook remains an unsigned free agent and Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[120924,120925,5556,60205,14828,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-212327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-bruno-caboclo","9":"tag-evan-fournier","10":"tag-kevin-durant","11":"tag-natalie-nakase","12":"tag-russell-westbrook","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}