{"id":1739,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1739","headline":"Thunder to retire Russell Westbrook's No. 0 in February","dek":"The ceremony is set for a February 7 home game against New York, honoring the 11 seasons Westbrook spent with the franchise.","body":"The Oklahoma City Thunder announced Monday they will retire Russell Westbrook's No. 0 jersey at a February 7 home game against New York. Westbrook, 37, retired in August after an 18-season NBA career, finishing as the league's all-time leader in triple doubles with 209.\n\nWestbrook spent the first 11 of those seasons in Oklahoma City, from 2008 to 2019, before moving on to Houston, Washington, the Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Lakers, Denver and Sacramento. He won the NBA Most Valuable Player award in 2017 with the Thunder and led the franchise to nine playoff appearances, including four Western Conference finals trips and a run to the 2012 NBA Finals, where Oklahoma City fell to Miami.\n\nWestbrook will become just the second player to have his number retired by the Thunder, joining Nick Collison, whose No. 4 already hangs with the franchise. The Thunder called the honor a point of pride for the organization as it prepares to celebrate one of the defining players in its history.","published_at":"2026-11-02T23:20:46.962309+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Thunder to retire Westbrook jersey '0' in February","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/thunder-retire-westbrook-jersey-0-202601066.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Oklahoma City Thunder to retire Russell Westbrook's number","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7748436/2026/11/02/oklahoma-city-thunder-russell-westbrook-number-retire/"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"0KC: Thunder will retire Westbrook's No. 0 this season","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50360248/thunder-retire-russell-westbrook-no-0"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"OKC Thunder to retire Russell Westbrook's No. 0 jersey on Sunday, Feb. 7","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/okc-thunder-retire-russell-westbrooks-191741954.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Oklahoma City Thunder announce they will retire Russell Westbrook’s number","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/oklahoma-city-thunder-announce-retire-195347510.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Thunder to honor former league MVP Russell Westbrook by retiring his No. 0 in February","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/thunder-honor-former-league-mvp-210522775.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Thunder Set to Honor Franchise Legend Russell Westbrook This Season","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/thunder-set-honor-franchise-legend-222614725.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}