From a maximum salary of 50 million to a basic salary of 3 million! The fastest regression in the NBA, you really should retire.

The current NBA has obviously come to an era of alternating new and old. The new generation of teams are about to start dominating the league. Who would have thought that the Pacers and the Thunder would meet in the Finals, while those traditional strong teams are gradually declining. In the Eastern Conference, the Bucks, Heat, 76ers and other teams that have had brilliant records in the past few years were eliminated early, and several traffic teams in the Western Conference, the Lakers, Warriors, and Clippers were unable to go further in the playoffs. At the same time, those very popular old-school superstars, Jendoku and others are gradually regressing. Although they still have the ability to be core players of a team, their dominance is too far from their peak periods, and it is difficult to lead the team to the championship level in the playoffs. This year's playoffs, the most disappointing traditional star may be Harden.

After all, during the regular season, Harden was able to return to his entire life, playing as an All-Star, and even scored 50 points in a single game. Once in the playoffs, he was beaten back to his original form, his offensive desire declined severely, and his scoring was timid, which eventually led to the Clippers being eliminated in the first round. However, Harden is not that bad now, and looking at the biggest regression in recent years, Westbrook is undoubtedly Westbrook. Four years ago in the Wizards, Westbrook was able to average 22.2 points, 11.5 rebounds, 11.7 assists per game, leading the team to the playoffs with buzzer. In May 21, Westbrook even averaged 26.3 points, 13.8 rebounds, 16.1 assists and 1.7 steals per game, and was elected as the Player of the Month. However, during that offseason, joining the Lakers became the turning point in Westbrook's career. The Lakers introduced Westbrook's three strong teams, which was obviously a loss-win decision.

On the one hand, Westbrook's personal ability has declined as he grows older and accumulates injuries. On the other hand, it seems that it is no longer applicable to the championship in today's league. What is more test is the adaptability and compatibility of the team, and Westbrook happens to be difficult to compatible with the Lakers and is incompatible. He needs a lot of ball rights to control the game, and James is basically dealt with the Lakers' ball rights. In addition, Westbrook is good at playing fast breaks and the game is relatively fast. In order to take care of James's thick eyebrows, the Lakers prefer to play positional battles, and it is difficult to speed up in the game. In this way, Westbrook's data after joining the Lakers has dropped seriously. He averaged only 18 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists per game that season, and the Lakers' record is also high-level diving. They didn't even make it into the playoffs that year, and Westbrook's transaction completely failed.

What's worse is that in his second season with the Lakers, Westbrook's annual contract salary reached nearly $50 million, ranking second in the league at the time after Curry, but he could only play the data of an ordinary starter and was extremely inefficient. The Lakers made a quick decision and sacked Westbrook in the middle of the 22nd season, and the Clippers then provided him with a basic salary contract. Whether in the Clippers or this season in the Nuggets, Westbrook obviously cannot find his peak state. Now his explosive power is not as good as before, and his shooting is also very unstable, and his main reason is that he makes many mistakes. This kind of defender who relies on athleticism at the peak can indeed easily regress in the later stages of his career, just like players such as Ross, Thomas Jr., Wall. This season, Westbrook's contract is only 3 million yuan in basic salary. Compared with his maximum salary a few years ago, the gap is too big.

Of course, Westbrook is not discouraged now, and he still seems full of vitality in any game and is full of enthusiasm. He also has many highlight moments this year's playoffs, such as the first round against his old team, the Clippers, who hit three-pointers at critical moments many times, completed the steal and kill. In the first game against the Thunder, he was calm and calm in the key round, assisted Gordon to tie the game. However, Westbrook is more like a double-edged sword, with highlights and outrageous mistakes and three-no-stick shooting. And from the overall data, Westbrook's performance is still very average. In the two rounds of the playoffs, he averaged 11.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game, shooting percentage of 39% and three-point shooting percentage of 31.7%. In the 7-game series with the Thunder, Westbrook's plus-negative value was only -92, ranking last among the two teams.

Cevin O 'Connor, a famous reporter, said that for Westbrook, it was a season of ups and downs. From an objective perspective, the Nuggets may have achieved success in introducing Westbrook, but whether the Nuggets will continue to stay Westbrook is an unknown. According to European basketball reporter Nemanja, the Israeli basketball league team Tel Aviv Sharp has had preliminary contact with Russell Westbrook. The European Cup champion team plans to offer Westbrook an unprecedented high-paying contract in European basketball history and invite him to join. Before that, veteran Beverly also played in the league for a short time. If Westbrook goes to Europe to play, then his NBA career may end here. It is basically unlikely to return to the NBA. I wonder how Westbrook should make a decision?