On the morning of Thursday, May 30, Bleacher Report’s Twitter account sent out the following tweet — a post that anyone inclined to assign absolute truth to news coming from an account officially verified by the blue bird hellsite would have assumed meant the Lakers had already decided not to trade Russell Westbrook.
The Lakers plan to keep Russell Westbrook. LA refuses to give up "additional assets" to send him out, per @TheSteinLine
Westbrook is expected to exercise his $47M player option for next season pic.