{"id":788858,"date":"2026-07-17T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/788858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:45:16","slug":"at-this-point-no-disrespect-to-russell-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/788858\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At this point, no disrespect to Russell Westbrook, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his latest updates for Bleacher Report, Jake Fischer was asked if the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/sacramento\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kings;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kings&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kings<\/a> would like to bring <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/4390\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Westbrook;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Westbrook&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westbrook<\/a> back for another year to potentially mentor Acuff Jr. Apparently, the NBA insider dismissed any possibility that <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/sacramento\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sacramento;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sacramento&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento<\/a> will look to retain the former NBA star. <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-252180-former-lakers-star-guard-not-welcome-to-return-to-previous-nba-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;At this point, no disrespect to Russell Westbrook, but I haven&#039;t heard that the Kings would want him back really in any fashion,&quot; Fischer said. &quot;I do believe that Sacramento has 15 full roster spots right now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;At this point, no disrespect to Russell Westbrook, but I haven&#8217;t heard that the Kings would want him back really in any fashion,&#8221; Fischer said. &#8220;I do believe that Sacramento has 15 full roster spots right now<\/a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think they are looking to really move a lot of furniture around to make an opening for Russell Westbrook to come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-252180-former-lakers-star-guard-not-welcome-to-return-to-previous-nba-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BasketNews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;BasketNews&quot;}\" class=\"link \">BasketNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his latest updates for Bleacher Report, Jake Fischer was asked if the Kings would like to bring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,6796,3553,4056,6,986,477,4055,2158],"class_list":["post-788858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-bleacher-report","tag-jake-fischer","tag-kings","tag-nba","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings","tag-westbrook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116934916393984590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}