Russell Westbrook's Hall of Fame Resume and Career Earnings After Surprise NBA Retirement

Russell Westbrook is hanging up his NBA sneakers, and the next stop will be the Hall of Fame.

Westbrook announced his retirement Wednesday with a video that was narrated by Michael B. Jordan:

The immediate reaction to most retirements is to reflect back on one's career, and the UCLA product had an excellent one. According to Spotrac, Westbrook made $349.5 million in career earnings during his various NBA stops.

What's more, his resume includes the following list of accomplishments:

• 2016-17 MVP
• 2 scoring titles
• 3 assist titles
• 2 All-Star Game MVPs
• 9 All-NBA selections
• 9 All-Star Game selections
• Spot on NBA's 75th Anniversary Team

After helping lead UCLA to back-to-back Final Fours at the collegiate level, Westbrook entered the league as the No. 4 overall pick of the 2008 NBA draft.

His first season just so happened to be the Oklahoma City Thunder's first as well after the franchise moved from Seattle when it was the SuperSonics. That made him an instant fan favorite, and the Thunder quickly became one of the best teams in the league with a young core of Westbrook, Kevin Durant and James Harden.

In fact, they were in the Western Conference Finals by Westbrook's third season in the league and the NBA Finals in his fourth.

In all, Oklahoma City reached the Western Conference Finals four times with the Durant and Westbrook duo leading the way but never quite got over the hump to win a championship. Durant then left for the Golden State Warriors following the 2016 Western Conference Finals loss.

But Westbrook stayed, which made him even more of a fan favorite in Oklahoma City.

He put on a show in his first post-Durant season and captured the league MVP while averaging a triple-double of 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists per game. Nobody in the league tallied more points per game in what was his first of three consecutive seasons averaging a triple-double.

The future Hall of Famer is the NBA's all-time leader with 209 triple-doubles, although Nikola Jokić will likely pass him seeing how the Denver Nuggets big man has 198.

Westbrook's final season with the Thunder was the 2018-19 one before he bounced around to the Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Nuggets and Sacramento Kings.

While he finished 11th in MVP voting during his one season in Washington in 2020-21, he never replicated his individual dominance from his Thunder career in any of his other stops.

Westbrook will always be associated with the Thunder and will surely remain a fan favorite in Oklahoma City for the foreseeable future into retirement even though he ended up playing elsewhere in the latter portion of his career.

After all, that is when one of the best players of his generation was at the top of his game.