Russell Westbrook doesn’t have a team but credit to him for staying in game-shape by getting shots up on a massive yacht

Drew Smith
August 27, 2025
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It’s almost September, training camps are around the corner, and Russell Westbrook is still unsigned for the 2025-26 NBA season.

Does he care? Absolutely not. Russ is too busy getting buckets on his massive yacht.

Russell Westbrook playing basketball on a yacht

Russell Westbrook playing basketball on a yacht. 👀

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Some guys spend their summers in the gym. Others in Vegas. Russ? He’s firing jumpers at sea. Honestly, it’s the kind of rich-person flex you have to respect. Magic Johnson did it first, and now Westbrook is carrying an “offseason yacht buckets” torch of his own.

The Free Agent Question

Russell Westbrook doesn’t have a team yet. The Kings are reportedly sniffing around, because nothing screams “redemption season” quite like adding a 36-year-old point guard who doesn’t fit their roster at all. Wherever he lands, the tape will show that at the very least, Russ remained locked in over the summer.

The Shooting Reality

Here’s where the comedy writes itself. Westbrook, for all his Hall of Fame credentials, has never been confused with a shooter.

Spot-up threes: 33.8% (21st percentile)
Catch-and-shoot: 33.3% (49th percentile)
Midrange: 35.3%
Charity Stripe: 77.2%

So yeah, odds are a few of those yacht balls are now floating somewhere in the Mediterranean. Maybe I’m wrong. If you can lock in on your jumper while dodging waves, crosswinds, and the occasional seagull, that could translate to an NBA court.

I have personally never had the luxury of playing pro basketball or being on a yacht so I’m not sure how that works.

Regardless, Russell Westbrook has nothing left to prove. First-ballot Hall of Famer, MVP, nine-time All-Star, over $348 million in career earnings. If he wanted to call it a career and sail off into the sunset for good, nobody would blame him.

Instead, he’s still grinding, even if the grind is happening on a luxury deck in some unnamed tropical paradise.

I respect that.

Would I be working on my jumper if I had a yacht that big? No chance in hell. I’d be drinking martini’s and opting for the Wolf of Wall Street approach on the open seas.