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10 Unknown Things about Russell Westbrook
Last Updated: April 20, 2014
Russell Westbrook 25 years old player of Oklahoma City is one of only five players in NBA history to record 4,000 points, 1,500 assists and 1,000 rebounds in his first three seasons. He is NBS’s hottest rising star averaging 16.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game.
Here are some of the unknown facts about Russell Westbrook.
- He first coach and mentor was his father who nurtured him throughout high school and college to transform him to a basketball player.
- He got lucky with his selection with the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Seattle Supersonics. Later he proved he deserved this pick by averaging an impressive 15.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 5.3 assists to finish fourth in Rookie of the Year voting behind Derrick Rose (Chicago), OJ Mayo (Memphis) and Brooke Lopez (New Jersey).
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His favorite cuisine are
- Breakfast: French toast
- Lunch: Hamburger and fries
- Dinner: Catfish
- He is a fashion icon and is much known for his fashion statement of red frame glasses. When asked when you got interested in fashion he answered “Just growing up. My Mom and I shopped all the time, she shops all the time, and I was always into fashion. I've been blessed to be in a situation where I can now buy some of the things that look good.”
- Russell wears number zero because he thinks he wasn’t able to anything big in his life from his college life to be selected. So he thinks as he got lucky by being selected it was a new start for his life from that day on from zero.
- Russell is still a college student and is studying English and history courses in pursuit of a degree in African American studies.
- Westbrook's 36-inch vertical was not all natural ability; he couldn't even dunk until he was a 17-year-old high school.”To be honest," Westbrook explained, "I was never really jumping that high when I was younger. I had to work on it. I didn’t dunk for the first time until the last game of my senior year in high school. I didn’t really start dunking regularly until college. I just work on my legs and my core: Running the stairs squats, working my hamstrings and quads. Then just sit-ups for my core."
- He was the fifth after Lebron James, Magic Johnson, Chris Paul, Isiah Thomas and Allen Iverson to score average 16.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.9 assists at the age of 21.
- Being aggressive and blunt from outside he is rather soft and kindhearted from inside. He has been doing a lot of community word including building and painting a lady house.
- His favorite Basketball player is Magic Johnson. As he wasn’t born while Johnson was playing so he watched all his matches repeatedly on film.
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