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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And got some actual value back in the exchange, no less.
Any one of the three guys they got back would've been more valuable than Westbrook and that was obvious before the deal was even made.
Westbrook was essentially a dead-on replacement level player this year. And only got there, amazingly, through his defense. Which was lackluster at best. But that's how ungodly unproductive he was offensively. He actually produced a negative win share offensively.
He was very probably the worst player in the NBA this year. And anyone that was paying attention KNEW it was a possibility. And an outright certainty that he'd be bad - it was just a question of HOW bad.
Again, Lebron just corn-holed this franchise something awful.
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...layer-ratings/
538 had him at a -0.6 WAR (good for 228th out of 250 players). Atrocious stuff.
He was already 185th out of 250 in that stat last year (1.0 WAR) so it was clearly trending in that direction.