Yall can blame KD for how hard the media goes on Russ.
Back when the Miami Big 3 formed the media was trying to push KD as the “anti-LeBron” young goody, two-shoes Christian boy. Yall remember him showing up to press conferences with his Bible in his backpack?
The media ate that shyt up and they would go in on Westbrook for how selfish he played because they felt it was a detriment to KD. They’ve really hated Russ ever since then.
this is complete nonsense
the media was on westbrook's dikk heavy after KD and when russ was still playing well. especially when he was putting up triple double seasons.
in some ways, he was even gassed and the flaws in his game that he's had throughout his career (like his IQ) were continuously downplayed immediately after KD left. this was done in order to make KD's choice to leave him seem worse than it was and to demonize KD further.
if anything, what is happening to russ is what the media does to all of lebron's teammates when lebron isn't winning, in order to avoid giving him any criticism whatsoever. it has literally happened to every teammate he's had, even the HOF ones, like clockwork. they do it to AD too.
its also responsible for the continuous hit job on KD, who's not even his teammate, but who they've had a vendetta against since he "stole" lebron's rings by leveling the playing field in GS against bron's 2nd super team in cleveland.
the media has been in bron's pocket for at least a decade. i'm not even criticizing, i'm just calling a spade a spade. after his first ring, whatever narrative needed to be spun to make bron look better has been being done in the media nonstop. i still remember when they wanted to give the nikka the fmvp after being swept