Worst NBA Writer

Sorry, this has been irking me for months and today’s Russ story finally pushed me to post.

As a Thunder fan I absolutely cannot stand Michael Pina’s writing at the Ringer. Everyone has a bias, but his seems to be a personal hate-letter to the Thunder. All season and especially in the playoffs it was dismissive as hell, insulting, etc.

Now this article. Look Westbrook was polarizing and his last few stops were pretty lousy, but you don’t have to completely shit on the guy in his retirement announcement. https://www.theringer.com/2026/08/13/nba/russell-westbrook-career-retirement-nba-triple-doubles-statistics