Following the stunning trade of Paul George to the Los Angeles Clippers, the next domino has fallen for the Oklahoma City Thunder as Russell Westbrook has been traded to the Houston Rockets, not the Miami Heat. The Thunder did not view Westbrook’s contract as a negative value, and the Rockets paid a price the Heat were not willing to match.
The Thunder received in return Chris Paul (perhaps the owner of the only contract in the NBA which is clearly worse than Westbrook’s own) and a package of multiple draft picks and the right to swap picks with the Rockets in multiple years.