{"id":417008,"date":"2023-02-22T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T02:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=417008"},"modified":"2023-02-23T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:40:07","slug":"westbrook-clears-waivers-signs-with-clippers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/westbrook-clears-waivers-signs-with-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbrook clears waivers, signs with Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-527 p Component-p-0-2-517\">Nine-time All-Star Russell Westbrook cleared waivers on Wednesday afternoon and signed with the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClipperNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ClipperNation<\/a>, Russell Westbrook! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6CsR1OF6OB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6CsR1OF6OB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LA Clippers (@LAClippers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAClippers\/status\/1628559472452079616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The 34-year-old veteran, who was waived by the Utah Jazz on Monday, could practice on Thursday if he passes his physical.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers (33-28), who are fourth in the Western Conference, host the Sacramento Kings on Friday in their first game after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Westbrook, who cleared waivers because no team has the salary cap space to take on the remaining $47 million he was owed on his expiring contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The move keeps him in Los Angeles. He is from the area, was a standout at UCLA and played less than two seasons for the Lakers before being traded to the Jazz on Feb. 10 as part of a three-team deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Westbrook is averaging 15.9 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 7.1 assists in 28.7 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">He is reuniting with Paul George, his former teammate in Oklahoma City Thunder. George had lobbied the front office to add a point guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-time All-Star Russell Westbrook cleared waivers on Wednesday afternoon and signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. Welcome to #ClipperNation, Russell Westbrook! pic.twitter.com\/6CsR1OF6OB &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":417009,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17651,17363,17198],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He could make his debut against the Kings on Friday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/417008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/417008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417008"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=417008"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=417008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}