Amid the carnage that was the Denver Nuggets’ Game 7 blowout of the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday, it wanted to actually really feel respectable to be Russell Westbrook.
The skilled guard had a powerful two-season job with the Clippers, but was rejected final offseason as element of a occupation to the Utah Jazz that landed protecting professionalKris Dunn At 35 years of ages, Westbrook was forgoed by Utah and continued to enroll with the Nuggets in completely free agency.
Westbrook is a far-off removed from his years as an All-Star, but he slotted in as a bench merchandise for a Denver group hopeless for deepness and did his widespread level, for a lot higher and even worse. It was a lot better on Saturday, when Westbrook swiped the sphere from his previous group whereas up 29 elements within the 4th quarter and took a triumph dunk.
Then he held on the sting up till the authorities supplied him the technological nasty he was plainly looking for, and shouted “I don’t give a f*** as he revved up a delighted Ball Arena crowd.
“I thought about, when I was about to get off the rim backward. I just said, ‘nah’ I’m gonna stay up here and try to break the rim. And then the tech came,” Westbrook claimed after the online game. “Intensity, just the emotions and everything. Just for me, the fans here are great. Give me a lot of energy, I feed off of them. The moment, just a lot, I think for all of us and for the fans, a sign of relief that we kind of had the game in hand.”
Westbrook completed the sport with 16 factors on 5-of-9 taking pictures, plus 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals and two turnovers.
Meanwhile, Dunn completed with three factors on 1-of-4 taking pictures after falling out of the beginning lineup for Game 7. He was a defensive standout for the Clippers this season, however noticed his function shrink considerably over the course of the Nuggets collection.
Westbrook very clearly took the commerce that exchanged him for Dunn personally.
Russell Westbrook strolling into the Nuggets’ locker room: “Picked the wrong person, didn’t they?”
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The loss as soon as once more ends the Clippers’ season in disappointing vogue, whereas the Nuggets will advance to face one other previous workforce of Westbrook’s, the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, who spent the primary spherical ripping aside the Memphis Grizzlies.
It could be a bit tougher to get bragging rights in that one.
