Russell Westbrook Game Status and Injury Update

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1835 days ago

The Houston Rockets were as everyone knows originally scheduled to play Wednesday afternoon. After the Milwaukee Bucks decided to boycott their game vs the Orlando Magic other teams joins with the Bucks’ All teams have boycotted the last two days of games to protest racial injustice. There was a chance that Russell Westbrook was going to play on Wednesday as he had been upgraded to questionable.

By Lachard Binkley

Russell Westbrook status updated

Westbrook was going to test out his quad right before game time. The Rockets had a 5 on 5 scrimmage yesterday and the results were exactly what the Rockets were hoping.

Story filed to ESPN: The Houston Rockets held an instrasquad scrimmage Thursday to get All-Star guard Russell Westbrook his first full-speed 5-on-5 action since he was diagnosed with a strained right quadriceps, sources told @wojespn
and I. Source: "Looked as explosive as ever."

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) August 28, 2020

Shortly after this report came out their was more good news on Westbrook status.

NBA source: Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) will play for the #Rockets in game five against OKC.

— Mark Berman (@MarkBermanFox26) August 28, 2020

It seems for the first time in the playoffs the Rockets will have their full roster with the return of Russell Westbrook. The best of seven-game series with the Thunder at 2-2. With Westbrook looking “explosive” the Rockets get back one of their two top players. This should hopefully give Harden more help and prevent him from wearing down late in the fourth quarter. The Rockets and Thunder or tentatively scheduled for sometime tomorrow.

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