Westbrook Watch

Some new dribbles of intel from the Russell Westbrook trade market lead off this Easter Sunday compilation of around-the-league notes ... in tribute to my old Weekend Dimes.

The playoffs have only just started. Substantive trade conversations in the NBA don't typically begin to percolate until the Chicago predraft camp in mid-May.

We are all nonetheless on Westbrook Watch, earlier than anyone imagined, thanks to the open secret that is the Los Angeles Lakers' desire to trade Russell Westbrook once he exercises his $47 milli…