accompanied Kobe’s retirement tour in 2016; was traded to the Nets in 2017;
The giant, Russell was signed first and then traded to the Warriors; he was traded to the Timberwolves in 2020, and the Warriors traded for the champion puzzle Wiggins; he returned to the Los Angeles Lakers in the middle of the 2023 season.
It seems that behind every major change in the league is related to Russell, but it has nothing to do with Russell.
He is what the magician said: “not enough to be a leader”!
It is also the discarded son of the Nets’ formation of the Big Three, a substitute for the Warriors eager to make up for Clay’s injury, and a trade partner for the Timberwolves to strengthen Edwards, but Russell, who returns to Los Angeles again, seems to finally usher in his own
own spring.
Let’s go back to March 11th. In the victory over the Raptors, Russell was at full strength at the last moment. He scored 16 points on 5 of 5 shots in a single quarter, leading the Lakers to complete an extreme reversal!
Russell once made a return gesture to the camera during the game. We don’t know at that moment whether he wanted to say that his injury had healed, or the child who had been away for seven years wanted to say: I am finally home!
from genius to rock bottom
In the 2015 draft, the Lakers picked the 1.98-meter tall guard with the second pick. This is the player with the highest pick in the draft since the Lakers won “Magic” Johnson with the No. 1 pick in 1979.
Therefore, he was once considered by the outside world to be the successor of the Zijin Dynasty after Kobe retired.