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Tim MacMahon
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ESPN Staff Writer- Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009
- Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks
- Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM
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Adrian Wojnarowski
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Senior NBA Insider- Host of The Woj Pod
- Join ESPN in 2017
The Houston Rockets held an intrasquad scrimmage on Thursday to get All-Star guard Russell Westbrook’s first full-speed, 5-on-5 action because he was diagnosed with a strained right quadriceps, sources told ESPN.
“He looked as explosive as ever,” a source said.
Westbrook missed the first four games of the Rockets’ series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, his former team. With the tie of the series, he plans to test the quadriceps pregame in an attempt to play in Game 5 Wednesday, but NBA games were postponed due to players protesting against racial injustice.
Teams are waiting for word from the league office that playoff games will resume Saturday.
Westbrook, a late arrival to the NBA’s Walt Disney World Resort campus in Florida because he tested positive for COVID-19, felt pain in his right quadriceps after the Rockets’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on August 4th. He sat the next out of two games because of what the team originally considered a fair quad contusion.
Westbrook played 28 minutes in Houston’s Aug. 11 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, recording 20 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. The Rockets announced the other day that an MRI had revealed that Westbrook had a tense muscle in his quad, and he has not played since.
Westbrook averaged 27.2 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game in his first season with the Rockets. Westbrook joined Houston last summer in a blockbuster deal with Oklahoma City.
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