In the middle of the carnage which was the Nuggets of Denver ' The Los Angeles Clippers Eruption 7 Eruption on SaturdayHe had to feel pretty good to be Russell Westbrook.
The guardian of the veterans had a solid two -season career with the Clippers, but was abandoned the last off -season as part of a business with Utah Jazz which landed the defensive specialist Kris Dunn. At 35, Westbrook was canceled by UTAH and joined the Nuggets in a free agency.
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Westbrook is at a long distance from his years as a star, but he made a bench for a desperate Denver team and made his usual thing, for the better or for the worse. It was better on Saturday, when Westbrook stole the ball into his former team when he increased by 29 points to the fourth quarter and won a victory dunk.
Then he hung the rim until the officials give him the technical fault he was clearly looking for, and shouted “I did not give AF *** when he acquired a host of delighted balls.
Westbrook ended the match with 16 points out of 5 shots, plus five rebounds, five assists, five interceptions and two reversals.
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Meanwhile, Dunn finished with three points on a 1 in 4 shot after falling the starting alignment for match 7. He was a defensive show for the clippers this season, but saw his role narrowing considerably during the Nuggets series.
Westbrook very clearly took the trade which exchanged him against Dunn personally.
The defeat ends once again the clippers season in a disappointing way, while the Nuggets will move forward to face another old Westbrook team, the City Tuget Oklahoma City time, which spent the first round tearing the Memphis grizzlies.
It could be a little more difficult to obtain brainwashing rights in that one.
