“I had no choice but to choose Ben Simmons over Russell Westbrook!”: When LeBron James chose to drop his Lakers teammate in favor of the controversial 76ers star

Tonoy Sengupta | 28/09/2021
"I had no choice but to choose Ben Simmons over Russell Westbrook!": When LeBron James chose to drop his Lakers teammate in favor of the controversial 76ers star

Lakers superstar LeBron James once canned his Russell Westbrook for 76ers point guard Ben Simmons

 

Right now, if you had to ask anybody inside the Lakers organization, LeBron James and Russell Westbrook would probably be called terms like ‘inseparable’, or even ‘like peas in a pod’. However, things weren’t always this way.

Now, to be clear here, the two never really hated each other, at least not that we know of. The two players had always maintained a healthy, friendly relationship, and the Jordan Brand endorsed player is even the King’s son’s favorite player. And we’re sure that relationship has only evolved now that they are teammates.

However, no matter how close they may be today, there was once a time James was willing to sacrifice Russell Westbrook for someone else entirely.

Let’s get into it.

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LeBron James once had to can Russell Westbrook for Ben Simmons in an All-Star game

The 2019 All-Star game to be exact.

Why would he do this? Well…take a look at the tweet below.

For context here, here is yet another tweet.

Yep. Long story short, the beef between Russell Westbrook and Joel Embiid was still hot as a Chicken sizzler that has just been served.

That being said though if this happened today, we wonder if Simmons and Embiid would be willing to be on the same team.

What if scenarios, right?

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Post Edited By: Tonoy Sengupta
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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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