{"id":1927694,"date":"2026-08-12T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927694"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:03:59","slug":"russell-westbrook-retires-from-the-nba-with-a-farewell-video-narrated-by-michael-b-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1927694","title":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook retires from the NBA with a farewell video narrated by Michael B. Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Russell Westbrook, the NBA&#8217;s career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he&#8217;s retiring after 18 seasons during which he was selected to the league&#8217;s 75th anniversary team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/4c86c-russell-westbrook-retires-from-the-nba-with-a-farewell-video-narrated-by-michael-b-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Russell Westbrook, the NBA&#8217;s career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he&#8217;s retiring after 18 seasons during which he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1927695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927696,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927694\/revisions\/1927696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}