NBA Champion Gets Honest About Russell Westbrook and Dillon Brooks

Are Russell Westbrook and Dillon Brooks misunderstood?

One of the best compliments an NBA player can receive is when they're considered somebody their teammates love playing with, and their opponents hate playing against. A player who falls perfectly into that category is LA Clippers star Russell Westbrook. One of the greatest competitors the game has ever seen, Westbrook is also one of the best teammates in the league, and has countless current and former teammates who would back that claim.

Recently appearing on No Chill with Gilbert Arenas, two-time NBA champion Danny Green used Westbrook as an example for how his former Memphis Grizzlies teammate Dillon Brooks is perceived. While Brooks is of course not the Hall-of-Fame player that Westbrook is, Green sees similarities in the way both players can be painted as villains, while their teammates feel much differently about them.

"I was never a teammate of Russ, but I would kind of picture it being like that," Green said of Brooks. "A lot of people see Russ when he's on the court, he's competitive, he's trying to go at you, and he's trying to kill you. But I hear he's one of the greatest teammates you'll ever have. Dillon is similar to that. When you're playing against him he's a pain in the ass, but when you're in the locker room he's gonna hold you accountable at the same time. He loves his guys, he's gonna fight for his guys, he's gonna compete to the fullest."

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