Through 81 games that season, Westbrook shot 34.3% from deep while averaging 7.7 3-point attempts per game.
His most successful season from 3-point range was the 2016-17 season, the same year he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. Over the course of Westrbook’s 13-year career, he’s never shot above 35% from behind the arc. Westbrook is a lot of things, including the NBA’s all-time leader in triple-doubles, but a “3-and-D” player isn’t one of them. While Caldwell-Pope and Kuzma weren’t defensive stalwarts or lights out 3-point shooters by any stretch of the imagination, on most nights, they were good enough to be impactful playing off of LeBron James and Anthony Davis. What the Los Angeles Lakers gained in star power by trading Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Kyle Kuzma for Russell Westbrook, they lost in perimeter defense and 3-point shooting.
