Russell Westbrook's Lakers Childhood Dream Is Over | His NBA Journey 😤

Well, the Lakers also traded one of the top 75 players of all time. Then MVP and Russell Westbrook for D'Angelo Russell Malik Beasley and Jared Vanderbilt, Minnesota Timbles also involved in the deal. They get Mike Conley jr. On the kill Alexander Walker. So a lot of moving parts in this deal. Let's focus on the basketball part in the shooting that the Lakers receive and two guys who have proven that they can knock down shots from outside. Yeah, I love it. I love the youth by what they've done. I'm Malik Beasley, obviously can flat-out shoot the basketball. I love everything about this when you look at this trades D'Angelo Russell is once a Laker now comes back. He can shoot there also play off LeBron James and Anthony Davis. So I like it, you know for the Los Angeles Lakers. Do I think now this gets them over a hump? We talked about earlier now the Phoenix Suns this really pushes the Los Angeles Lakers. You always want to improve but I don't think this gets the top echelon of Western Conference teams. I agree with Smitty. I don't think their ceiling is championship, but they did get better and they've said with LeBron and Anthony Davis. We think we have a shot in a playoff series. Well, we'll see if they do now. They have some more shooting and more of an opportunity for LeBron and AD and the franchise to be successful. You predicted Russell Westbrook will get bought out and be on the market. Where do you think he ends up? I think the LA Clippers are the frontrunner and should be the frontrunner. If Westbrook wants a bigger role than the Chicago Bulls need a starting point guard. Miami always likes talent. They like reclamation projects in Southeast, but I would like the Clippers. I look at the Clippers with a need with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in a championship contending team. I think that's the best fit for Westbrook. Los Angeles Lakers are expected to bring guard Russell Westbrook off the bench versus Minnesota allowing him to play more as the primary playmaker for the second unit sources tell ESPN. I would just go there now because it just seems like where it's headed. Anyway, if he really is as bought in as Darvin Hamm and everyone else has been saying he is then he should be willing and accepting of coming off the bench. I think it's positive. Russell is best with the basketball and I think Russ would like pace. He wants to get up and down. So I think it might be an asset if he coming off the bench, he can dictate that salute to Russ for play of his magnitude amount of games. He started throughout the course of his career for him to trust me trust us and try to allow it to work. That's the type of sacrifice. We need if I'm Russell Westbrook last year was awful last year was in my hometown with my friends and family hearing Westbrook all the time. It was really hard to watch him go through that. I can't imagine living through that. So where is Russ's head at right now? It is on reestablishing himself and reasserting himself as an all-star level player. I'm so happy for him and he's been phenomenal. Nothing short of amazing. I'm so happy man. I can't even imagine what that kid is going through man. One of the biggest things about me getting this job was for him to get that respect that he deserved because a lot of what went on last year was not his fault and everything all the blame was placed on and so I told him man, just listen to me believe in me bro. I'm gonna put you in a position to succeed with the group. It can't be about me or I or mine. It's got to be us ours we and he's done that whatever is needed for me to be able to help the team win. That's what I'll do and I'll continue doing that as the season goes along those that have known him since his high school years have long known that adversity is what forged the nine time all-star. I had him when he was a ninth grader and he came to class every day and he had his basketball bag. So he had his basketball shoes and he always had his basketball during Russell's years here at losing her. He didn't get a lot of Scouts coming out and watching them. It wasn't till late into his senior year to where something opened up at UCLA and he was able to get a scholarship. I just want to thank God for giving us our opportunity and I think my mom my dad my little brother my coach played high school basketball here in Los Angeles played college basketball UCLA. Now he's going to get to play professional basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers all right here in his hometown. It couldn't be better for him and his family. I think it still hasn't kind of hit me yet that being from LA watch the parades miss school to try to go to a lot of things. I can't put into actual words just because you know, some of these dreams don't come true for people like myself for Westbrook dreams have taken many forms including becoming the league's most valuable player. The longtime fashion icon has long had another dream and this year he was proud to open the first brick-and-mortar store for his very own clothing line honor the gift Russell wanted a store back in 2019 and I got brought on in 2020. So when we visited this space which used to be the old OVO store, he made a phone call and we got it when he first started the brand he started with t-shirts and he started with hoodies and now we are a full cut-and-sew program with men's women's and kids. It's definitely been a ton of hard work to get to where we are right now. Russell Westbrook started on a gift in about 2016 as we all know Russell loves fashion. He's always loved fashion. He started with his mother and even when it came down to doing his like carpet looks that he would do is red carpets. He had his mother as his inspiration. Great turnout, great energy, great vibes. I've known Russell since 2016 and now he's, you know, spreading out to the world, man, sharing with others. It's been great, especially in this community, being back home in LA. It's great. So I'm just happy to be here to support him. This collection it's called District and that is because Russell attended both private schools and public schools. It's really true to who Russell is. He had a pretty good fashion sense mostly in the area of shoes. But as we see today, it's extended beyond shoes. One of the things I love about Russell is his connection to where he came from. A lot of his clothing have inner city on there because Russell grew up right here in the inner city. He knows what it means to grow up in the struggles and being able to get out is big time for Russell. Honor the Gift, I think, inspires the youth. Russell being from the inner city, I think that we highly speak about it on each of our pieces. You really feel like it's deeply rooted in that. It's from the inner city to the inner city.