Westbrook Leads Thunder Over Suns in OT, 113-110

Behind Russell Westbrook’s first official triple double of the season–the OKC Thunder battled back from an eighteen point first half deficit to win a 113-110 OT thriller in the season home opener at Chesapeake Energy Arena on Friday night.

A Westbrook driving twisting layup with seven seconds left in OT was the game winner and an Andre Roberson block of a Devin Booker shot was the savior.

This was not the Westbrook of Wednesday night in Philly when he was prudent with his ball distribution. Adams, Kanter, Ilyasova, and Sabonis didn’t see much of the ball. This was pure Kobe/Westbrook. If you’re a white geek millennial who writes dumbass nonsense on various basketball blog message boards and you never really saw Kobe in his prime you saw him Friday night wearing # O for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Westbrook was simply audacious. Kobe, Phil, and Jerry Buss would be proud. Officially–Westbrook’s triple double read 51-13-10. Kobebrook was 17-44 from the field playing 45 minutes. The Chesapeake Energy Arena used to be Kevin Durant’s building. No more. Russell Westbrook now owns the building and the state of Oklahoma. If Westbrook wanted to be the GOP presidential canidate over Trump or the simpleton Ted Cruz it would be his if he so chose.

Consider this…. Oklahoma City had 13 assists and 22 turnovers as a team and still won this basketball game.

Victor Oladipo had a nice bounce back game scoring 21 points while showing glimpses of why Sam Presti traded Serge Ibaka this past summer. Officially–the OKC starting backcourt combined for 72 points on Friday night.

I think it would be fair to say after two games Russell Westbrook is on everyone’s MVP short list. In two games he’s averaged 41.5 points. Maybe Kevin Durant should tweet some bullshit apology about holding Russell back all these years.

Granted…I’m almost certain Billy Donovan would rather see more of the Russell Westbrook we saw on Wednesday night in Philly per ball distribution, but there will be nights like this as this season unfolds before our lucky eyes as NBA basketball purists.

My Three Stars of the Game are 1 Russell Westbrook, 2 Andre Roberson, and 3 Victor Oladipo.

OKC improves to 2-0 on the season and will host Luke Walton’s LA Lakers on Sunday evening inside the Peake.

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