{"id":17759,"date":"2022-03-09T01:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=201036"},"modified":"2022-03-09T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:02:26","slug":"lakers-russell-westbrook-speaks-on-his-name-being-shamed-his-family-being-harassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/lakers-russell-westbrook-speaks-on-his-name-being-shamed-his-family-being-harassed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Russell Westbrook speaks on his name being shamed, his family being harassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers continue to stay in the headlines, not because of their greatness but their struggling form this season. They indeed are one of the most successful basketball teams with 17 NBA Championships, the most in any franchise history but their performances this season have not been as impressive as it was supposed to be, keeping them 9th in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Following the losses, one of the players that is blamed for the season is Russell Westbrook. A nickname given to him as \u201cWestbrick\u201d, the surname trollers use to troll him for his shooting, is definitely not so considerate for the two-time MVP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russell Westbrook spoke on the criticism he and his family have faced through the years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ADDW4WEvfC\">pic.twitter.com\/ADDW4WEvfC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1501227401795104771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Skip Bayless, a sports commentator was called out by Nina Westbrook, Russell\u2019s wife for disrespecting the Lakers\u2019 point guard continuously, to which, the Laker said that he stands with his wife because now, \u201cshe\u2019s reached a point.\u201d He further, about the name said, \u201cI\u2019m Westbrook. Westbrook, that\u2019s my last name\u2026\u2026.Westbrick, to me, is now shaming. It\u2019s like shaming my name,\u201d reported <em>Spectrum Sports Net.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"I stand behind my wife with how she's feeling\u2026it's reached a point where it's really weighing on my family.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/russwest44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@russwest44<\/a> shares his thoughts on the comments made by his wife saying she and her family are \"harassed on a daily basis\". <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ize5TLvVnb\">pic.twitter.com\/ize5TLvVnb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpectrumSN\/status\/1501064010724085762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The struggling performance of the team at this alarming rate tells the Lakers might not reach the season\u2019s Playoffs if this continues. Having lost one of their key players, Anthony Davis, the team has now fallen to LeBron James today before the game against Spurs that cost them another important win. Meanwhile, Coach Frank Vogel is \u201chopeful\u201d for the forward to be available for their next game against Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two time MVP faces a lot of criticism following the Lakers\u2019 poor form shaming his name to \u201cWestbrick\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[583,1073,1796,2794],"class_list":["post-17759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-russel-westbrook"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}