NBA Positional Rankings: Top 10 point guards entering 2021-22

No. 7: Russell Westbrook, Los Angeles Lakers

2020-21 Stats: 22.2 PPG/11.5 RPG/11.7 APG/1.4 SPG/.439/.315/.656

Half of you are going to think this is too high, and the rest will think this is too low. Get over it. Russell Westbrook is one of the most unique players and stat fillers that the NBA has ever seen. He has also routinely run out of gas in the playoffs and disappointed.

Both of these things can be true. What does this mean, though?

It means he’s a little older. He’s banged up more often. His trade landed him in a situation that could be bountiful, and just as easily be disastrous. The triple-double average was still there, though. So were the highlight plays. And let’s not forget he was easily a top-five point guard for the last third of the season there. Somewhere in the middle-ish seems right for the ranking.

Russell Westbrook is a Los Angeles Laker. I think about that sentence a couple of times a day. Weird.