Warriors ahead Draymond Inexperienced has defended Russell Westbrook after ESPN’s Dave McMenamin likened Westbrook’s commerce to Utah to eradicating a vampire from the locker room.
“You higher make certain that that’s the case. As a result of that proper there may actually have an effect on somebody’s livelihood,” Inexperienced stated on his podcast. “That proper there may make a workforce that was like, ‘We’ll signal Westbrook,’ be like, “Ah, however do I would like that in my locker room?’
“As a result of he was within the locker room with LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and if he’s a vampire in that locker room, then what’s he gonna be like within the subsequent locker room?”
Inexperienced additionally stated the “vampire” remark wants to come back with particular examples and info and that the remark “simply felt like a shot at character.”
“And me personally, I do know Russell Westbrook doesn’t have dangerous character. I do know Russell Westbrook is an unimaginable dude, so I didn’t love that, however once more, I can’t one hundred pc dispel that as a result of I’m not within the locker room.”
These had been the quotes McMenamin stated on the phase NBA Immediately that Inexperienced wasn’t impressed with:
“This was the time to do it. Russell Westbrook was not going to be a part of this workforce after the summer time when his contract expired, and in addition when his contract got here off the books the Lakers would have much less cash to cope with within the free company interval this summer time.
“You get youthful, you bought capturing, you bought switchable defenders, and as one supply informed me, you take away a vampire from the locker room. That that means, a vampire sucks the blood out of the locker room. Russell Westbrook strikes on.”
