It’s been an eventful summer for the Oklahoma City Thunder: the acquisition of Paul George, and Enes Kanter’s struggles to make it back to American soil are just two of the major highlights. Steven Adams actually shaved, and they managed to even squeeze a team trip to the zoo into the schedule before the grind of the NBA season starts.
This summer was the exclamation point at the end of the Season of Russ, with Russell Westbrook being only the 2nd man to ever average a triple-double for an entire season on his way to being named NBA MVP. Westbrook more than proved he is his own headline act after Kevin Durant defected to the Bay Area.
Presti says Westbrook had a PRP injection on his right knee and will miss the first few days of training camp. Says it's "nothing serious."
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) September 22, 2017
However, the encore act of the Season of Russ will be delayed a few more days, as GM Sam Presti revealed today in a press conference that the 2016-17 NBA MVP will miss the first few days of training camp. Westbrook received a PRP shot to his knee in order to get ready for the upcoming season, and the recovery time for one of those shots will end up bleeding into the beginning of the training camp schedule.
In previous years, a player missing the first few days of training camp would be innocuous because the NBA preseason took up so much of the month of October that a player could easily catch up. However, because the NBA offices wanted to limit back to back games, the amount of days in the pre-season have been shortened. That being said, Westbrook won’t miss much since he’s so much of the offense anyway.
Westbrook, like Paul George, is a free agent at the end of the season. Reports are that there have been no negotiations between the Thunder front office and Westbrook’s agent. If this is Westbrook’s final season in Oklahoma, he’s bound to give the fans one hell of a send-off.
