{"id":17098,"date":"2022-10-04T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/darvin-ham-addresses-russell-westbrook-trade-rumors\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:46:03","slug":"darvin-ham-addresses-russell-westbrook-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/darvin-ham-addresses-russell-westbrook-trade-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Darvin Ham addresses Russell Westbrook trade rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"393\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1193633qTJKtVTb-696x393.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1193633qTJKtVTb-696x393.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1193633qTJKtVTb-560x316.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1193633qTJKtVTb.jpeg 1378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Russell Westbrook\" title=\"Russell Westbrook\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Los Angeles Lakers\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Recently a new report from The Athletic came out suggesting that the Lakers could trade Russell Westbrook in the coming weeks and months. The former NBA MVP is preparing for the season with the team even though his future remains uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Following the team\u2019s first preseason game against the Kings, head coach Darvin Ham was asked about the Westbrook trade rumors and whether he spoke with the player about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuss is a Los Angeles Laker. I\u2019m the coach. We talk about Laker business. More specifically the business of basketball that we have together in terms of how we gonna play, how he\u2019s gonna be effective in this system,\u201d Ham said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny outside noise we don\u2019t pay attention to it. It\u2019s pretty difficult when you have smartphones and all that these days. But at the end of the day since I got the job he\u2019s been nothing but supportive, as with Bron and AD as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just coach our team, our players listen to us they\u2019re trying to figure out this new system both defensively and offensively. Any outside noise that comes that\u2019s part for the course. It comes with the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a Los Angeles Laker the last time I checked and I\u2019m really not mad at that. He showed tonight he\u2019s gonna thrive in this system. That\u2019s about all I can say about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Darvin Ham comments on the Lakers&#8217; performance against the Kings and clarifies that Russell Westbrook is a Laker and won&#8217;t pay attention to outside noise. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ACITLoZrHo\">pic.twitter.com\/ACITLoZrHo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpectrumSN\/status\/1577172606150582277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Los Angeles Lakers\/YouTube Recently a new report from The Athletic came out suggesting that the Lakers could trade Russell Westbrook in the coming weeks and months. The former NBA MVP is preparing for the season with the team even though his future remains uncertain. Following the team\u2019s first preseason game against the Kings, head<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1020,3218,530,179,523,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17099,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17098\/revisions\/17099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}