Russel Westbrook: One Of The Best Basketball Player

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Russel Westbrook

According to Wikipedia, Russel Westbrook started his career in 2008. He was born on November 12,1988 in Long Beach California. He is 6'3 and 29 years old. He owns his own shoe that is sponsored by Jordan. He is one of the most ball dominate players in history. He makes 28.53 million dollars every year. He is worth 344 million dollars.

According to USA today after one of his best games he told some reporters that he wants to be more inspiring to kids playing basketball. He is a team player, and he does his best to be in the top ten best players. He wasn’t in UCLA's starting 5 so he worked hard to be in Oklahoma city's starting five. As a kid he always played basketball with his dad who was very good at basketball.

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