Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant on the bench laughing at Russel Westbrook’s failed attempt to get a triple double
KD is that snake friend we’ve all had lol
I would laugh at a friend doing this too. A good friend too. Someone I love and care deeply for. Do none of yall make fun of your friends?
Yeah. Its brotherly love. I’ll step in front of a car for you and fight anyone actually going after your dignity. But if you’re my real friend and you’re doing something ridiculous, theb I’m gonna be the first one to laugh at you.
Theb
If you don’t love theb at their grammatically worst, theb you don’t deserve him at his grammatically best.
They up by 20 in bum minutes playing with their starting 5. Not to guarantee the win, but to guarantee Russ a triple double. This is proof that Russell’s triple doubles were pre-made
If it were just KD laughing by himself I would agree with you but you gotta admit it’s a little different when it’s him AND Steph laughing at him.
Some of us are that snake friend.
Some of us are KD (he must have like a dozen Reddit accounts lol)
nah that was actually Lebron with how he was leaking “locker room vampire” about Westbrook to the media
Brickula sucks ass and he did it to himself
both can be true
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Yes he has, got caught liking a tweet shitting on Steph when he thought he was on a burner and getoffmydickerson said some things as well
Snake? He openly hated Westbrooks guts and attributes him as the reason he left the Thunder.
The way KD acted after leaving OKC often felt mean-spirited
He’s a mean spirited kinda guy
The guy who spends hours a day bashing his teammates on Twitter is mean spirited?
Get off his Dickson
If I could tweet at atrangers about how much my coworkers suck I’d do it too
He is objectively a bitch.
An elite player that found zero team success without a carry. Proof? OKC, PHX, Brooklyn, Houston.
Eh. Brooklyn was just kinda unfortunate,
An unfortunate example of how objectively, he a bitch.
who carried him?
uhh are you reducing success to just ring culture? he led OKC to Finals at age 21 and then the owners cheaped out
You mean who on the dynastic team lead by HC Steve Kerr, former unanimous MVP, completely loaded roster, having recently come off a title? Which they should’ve won it in 2016 had LeBron not activated god mode.
It took the #1 favorited team in the West to absolute unreal levels of expectations.
Who won finals mvp on those KD warriors teams?
I’m sure he’s worked hard but you were literally born on third with that frame, why so bitter?
Because KD a bus riding clown
He pissed everyone off by going to the warriors and just decided to be a villain
But then couldn’t handle the heat of being a villain
Happens to the best of us
Even LeBron could only do it for one year lol
I mean Dillon Brooks has made a career out of it. Some guys have it and some don’t
Brooks doesn’t have the pressure of winning, his only role is to be an annoying POS.
Asinine comparison.
What makes you think he couldn’t handle being a villain? Is he not a villain now?
I hate to take his side but okc wasn’t exactly kind-spirited either. Like I get it, but still
What a dumb take. Look how Westbrook, PG, Chris Paul, Steve Adams, Perkins, Giddey, etc. get treated when they come back. Thunder is all they have, they have no reason to be mean to anybody.
KD felt he had to prove he was “a bad boy” and not a momma’s boy when he left. BREAKING NEWS he is still a momma’s boy and with a mickey mouse snake bitch legacy. All the money does not buy happiness when he has twitter burner accounts.
I think I would trade lives with him.
You’ve gotta be mentally damaged or rage baiting. Pick one.
Giddey is a pedophile
You’ve decided that based on your extensive knowledge regarding the circumstances of an under-age girl lying about her age i take it?
please, anyone can tell or at least be suspect. P. Giddey Epstein didn’t care
Oh so youre an idiot. Got it. Have a good day
yall voted to raise the taxes of poor people to help a billionaire build an arena lmao
This is the truest take from a non-Thunder fan that I’ve ever seen. But also, Oklahomos are loyal to a fault. It’s a character trait if you’re born there. KD was praised from locals when he said “I bleed burnt orange”(the University of Texas is not well liked in Oklahoma) in one of his first pressers for the Thunder.
As long as you’re loyal, the fanbase will never turn on you. Fans still boo KD when he touches the ball in OKC. I think it’s childish, but that’s how the majority of us are.
didn’t they steal their team from seattle?
KD is always the Toy Story 2 meme where when it gets rough, he’ll bail on you for the next team.
Yeah Russ is that ride or die friend while KD feels like a fair weather friend.
Lol
If it’s within reach might as well try to get it. Many players do it. They’re up big. Would’ve been disgraceful trying to get it if they were losing.
Rickey Davis is confused by this
Confused by which basket to shoot at… Confused by the spelling of his own name…
Yeah he chased stats but I bet Rickey would also be Russ-like in that if you told him what “load management” was, he would not think it had anything to do with playing basketball too much.
It wasn’t so much that he was trying to get a triple double, it’s that he was so demonstrative about the guy not shooting it for the assist.
It’s funny because you don’t usually see a player that upset about a missed stat pad.
And OKC’s starting 5 is still on the floor. If anything, Warriors might’ve barely cleared their bench a few plays before.
Na, this pathetic lmaoooo
exactly. no one else cares when a worse player tries hard and stays in to close out their triple double. why is it stat padding suddenly when it’s russ
People cared plenty when games would be out of reach and thanasis would come in and play at full intensity so it’s not just Russ that gets that kind of treatment
I’d say it’s different when you’re a number one option for a team that has aspirations to compete in May and this is your umpinth career triple double.
it was different when thunder fans SWORE up and down that he wasn’t trying to get triple doubles. i agree that there’s nothing wrong with it, even if he was trying to statpad, as long as they were getting wins.
Would’ve been disgraceful trying to get it if they were losing.
As a guy who likes Russ, I present Westbrook chasing a triple-double while down double digits to the Suns
They’re losing by almost 20, wtf are they laughing about
That Russ is still in while up 20 trying to statpad?
Then go back in and stop him
Why, the game is meaningless to them?
THAT’S THE PROBLEM
They knew they had lost the game, which is why they were not playing. They were laughing because Russ is the only star who would risk an injury in an already-won game in order to meaninglessly attempt to stat-pad.
tHaTs ThE pRoBLem
Some of the revisionist history on Russ since he retired is crazy. Like you said. It’s corny AF to still be stat padding up 20. Guarantee if this was a thread about Melo tryna get an extra bucket while his team was up 20, he’d be called an overpaid loser who never won anything.
It’s just a surge of positives around him since he’s retiring which is okay imo since he mostly got shit on the last few years lol. I still have lots of criticisms of him but if the fans wanna have their moment…okay. I don’t like them rewriting history either tho like one guy saying Westbrook was nvr a stat padder
Didn’t LeBron do something like that towards the back end of last season? To keep his always scored more than 10 points per game going. I forget who it was against, but after just getting over the line, he scored 8 points in the next game.
All players at one stage or another have stat padded in garbage time once and more likely a good few times.
He passed the ball to Rui to give them the win in a close game, he didn’t stick around to try and keep the 10 points. Lebron stat pads, but this ain’t the one.
He’d have people defending him just like Westbrook. Both are pretty low tier hall of fame guys who didn’t contribute as much to winning as some players who aren’t viewed as favorably as they are for whatever reason.
You calling Russ a low tier HOF guy? 👀💀
Absolute clown comment does your mom know you are in the internet? Should’ve swallowed your ass
“That’s the problem” is from Jeff Teague’s podcast episode with Dame, quoting Westbrook. It’s funny
Naw laughing when you losing is stupid. How long was he out there after warriors players pulled.
lol they were laughing not angry
Most Magic fan response ever LOL
I read that as “statdad”
This is that “Unwritten Baseball Rules” energy
They didn’t have to care about the regular season because their team was so stacked
Oh geez, the KD warriors lost a regular season game? They’re clearly done for
They’re laughing at russ stat padding like his entire career
For real. I don’t know how people overlook this. There’s more than sufficient evidence to show that his numbers were inflated and not always achieved within the flow of the game. He was still a great individual talent but he’s not as great as a lot of people try to portray him.
Fun fact, Westbrook never made it out of the first round of the playoffs as his team’s primary option.
2-8 in playoff series without KD
KD is like 2-5 in playoff series post GS. And one of those series wins he had James Harden.
I would never say Westbrook is a better player than KD but 2-8 without KD doesn’t really say much in a team sport. The entire premise and argument like much of basketball discourse is insanely reductive.
He was his teams primary option for like 3 years of his career - all of which was as he was approaching 30 and one year was with a ragtag group because they didn’t think KD would leave
People say this and act like the first 8 years of his career didn’t count
3 years approaching 30 is basically a players prime
They don’t want context, which is why they parrot this nonsensical bullshit. It’s also true we don’t know how well Russ would do holding a team hostage for a decade so it’s built perfectly around him like a lot of these other “stars”, but he was never afforded the opportunity.
I do think he needed to play better in the Jazz/Blazer series, but there was only so much that can be done with broken rosters and injuries piling up.
He definitely needed to play better against the Jazz and Blazers but you are right
It’s just tiring to see some people think his career started in 2017 and act like he was the primary option after 2019
What has KD done as the first option? He would have nothing if it wasn’t for Steph
guy who was born in 2012 ^
You’re projecting
Who me?
no, eightblocked
10-4.
He has gotten out of the first rd as the first option, something Russ hasn’t as the other poster mentioned.
What is that evidence?
You can start with this post video right in front of your face. Then I’m sure you’re capable of basic internet searches. It’s out there.
I mean this is one video and you can probably find one video of any player doing anything when they have played hundreds to thousands of games.
I googled “evidence of Russel Westbrook stat padding” and nothing but links to reddit comments that are vague or at best pushing stats that other people contest with other stats. There’s a few players arguing against the idea in there too for whatever that’s worth.
I’m not trying to be an asshole. I genuinely can’t find anything. You said sufficient evidence. I wanna know why people think this about Westbrook and where that sufficient evidence is.
I typed in “examples of Westbrook stat padding”and went to the video tab. There are literally countless video examples. I saw at least two dozen with quick glance.
There’s been a lot of revisionist history about Russ on here since he retired. Bro’s an OG stat padder
They won the chip this year?
They were probably laughing that all year Russ and the media made it seem that he “carried” the 16-17 thunder.
Yet this season they only won one more game even with All NBA Paul George.
They were probably laughing that Russ was the worst shooter by volume this season.
They were probably laughing cuz they saw into the playoffs and watched Ricky Rubio and a rookie Donovan Mitchell embarrass Russ and make him eat shit while he got 46% TS.
That’s why they were laughing. Russ can pad his stats. Doesn’t lead to anything.
Doing this much just to hate on a retired player is pathetic bro lol
Yeah I’m sure this game spelt doom for golden state
theyre laughing that russ is winning by 20 and he’s still obsessed with getting a triple double.
Lol are you trying to be stupid or something? They’re laughing because Russ is still statpadding to get his triple double in garbage time while up 20. And yes, they’re allowed to laugh while losing a game — this was the KD Warriors; who sleepwalked to a title later this year.
Can’t believe we got the fucking LAUGH POLICE out here. It’s really not that deep. Only on Reddit do you find enough maladjusted people who have a problem with players laughing, of all things.
Well and nba referees…. Ask Tim Duncan about that.
That they were going to win a title that year while russ chased meaningless stats.
While Russ was the worst shooter by volume and would go on to post 46% TS with a rookie donovan mitchell and Ricky Rubio taking his shit.
Thank you. I know it’s just one regular season game, but, you’re getting your asses kicked and you’re laughing at the star player on the other team not getting an assist so he can complete his triple-double in the beat-down? At least pretend to be sad/mad.
When somebody unleashes a bonafide zinger there’s not much you can do. It’s like pissing
Yall are so angry lol
NBA players generally don’t care about winning or losing they just want their money
Capitalism
Still more respectable than joining a 73 win team after they packed you up and sent you to cancun
After you were up 3-1 too
And then calling it the hardest road
And shit the bed for the next 3 games
Whatever faults Russ’ game may have had over the course of his career - you can’t deny coaches and teammates would love any player who played as hard as he did during those OKC years.
I feel like he could’ve gone further if he directed that effort in better ways.
Granted, I’m biased because I decided he’s an insufferable asshole a while ago. (Blud got worked up over basketball Reggie Jackson.)
Yeah, and besides his effort on the court was pretty selective, he didn’t try all that hard when he didn’t have the ball or on certain defensive possessions.
People always say this, but where was that ‘heart’ and ‘effort’ on the defensive end? Westbrook was among the worst in the league at contesting shots and contesting 3s during his triple double years. You watch that footage back and he was leaving his man to camp in the paint for rebounds.
That’s not playing hard, that’s playing for your personal stats. I distinctly remember OKC losing some clutch games because Westbrook left shooters wide open (where he was primary defender) to wait for rebounds. There’s no world a guy who plays a position dominated by 3pt shooting should have less/about the same number of contested 3s as Rudy Gobert.
This is a byproduct of this terrible modern era mentality that only the offensive side matters. Looking at another guy in this clip, nobody blabs about Steph Curry giving ‘110% every possession’ but he’s actually making an effort defensively, not taking those possessions off because he needs 10 uncontested defensive rebounds for his box score.
Im confused did Westbrooks career start in 2017 or did he play for almost decade before that? Westbrook’s the only guy I see who’s entire beginning their career is entirely discounted in favor of like 3 years. He was a very active defender for years alongside KD and a huge ball of energy that electrified the crowd every time down the floor. This is such a stupid “gotcha” that people say because they clearly never watched Westbrook from like 2010-2015.
No, what’s stupid is replying to a thread where the explicit context is his stat padding during those triple double years by saying ‘but what about in 2011!’.
It’s not relevant to the conversation. He wasn’t chasing empty stats for his personal box score at that point, was he? The idea coaches should love his ‘motor’ during years where he quit on half the game because it helped his PRA is ridiculous lmak
Harden was good on defense with okc. If someone said he was a bad defender in general you wouldn’t say shit
Writing books just to hate, this is embarrassing
It’s three VERY small paragraphs. Not sure why you want to tell the world you’re a juvenile illiterate 😂
Triple doubles is a fake stat.
29/10/9 is not immensely worse than 29/10/10 but it is treated like it.
It’s just a stupid narrative driving stat that has become popular with the changes in the style of the game.
You had mvp voters who would have not voted for Westbrook if his average assists was something like 9,98 instead of 10,1.
Lots of NBA stats are similarly fake by that measure. 50-40-90, 60 wins, first to X points/rebounds/assists and all the combinations of, >30 PPG seasons, and so on.
To paraphrase a famous statistician: all stats are fake, some are useful.
When reducing numbers into insights, you often have to make an arbitrary cut-off somewhere. The idea is that the cut-off is informed by the data, useful, and importantly, memorable. It doesn’t matter that a 9.9 average is virtually the same as 10.0, the point isn’t to capture every scenario or be a perfect discriminator of some outcome, it’s to reduce data into a simpler form for a purpose. Whether it’s fake or not depends on if it achieves that purpose.
In cricket, one of the most important metrics by which to judge batsmen is the number of scores of 50+ and 100+. Doesn’t matter if they got 49 or 99, it doesn’t count towards the metric. Is it largely arbitrary? Yep. Is it useful as a statistic? Sure is.
And 18, 10, 10 is significantly worse than 30, 9, 15 but only one goes in the book as a triple double
It’s not fake… he was getting real points, rebounds and assists.
I think you meant arbitrary. And sure, that’s fine. But he also didn’t win the MVP solely because of that, it was a confluence of events. He dragged that team to the playoffs after KD up and left. Had some insane games during the season, and averaged the triple double.
He had immense value to that team, and it was a great story.
It’s more of a fake stat when management is helping force triple troubles
Corny and childish to laugh like that when you are losing the game.
Corny and childish to statpad triple doubles
Probably stat padded that double digit win over the best team ever assembled too
Oh no, he had a regular season win. That’s the complaint people have always had about Russ. His lack of regular season wins
You been consistent on all the stat padding that goes on? Bam? Kobe? Wemby?
Both can be true
Def mean spirited
Laughing at a guy stat padding and failing at it
I remember this sub laughing harder than anyone at Russ trying for the triple-doubles. Then this footage of Curry and Durant was posted and everybody clutched their pearls, gasping, ”Well, I’d never!”
If this thread was posted a week ago, this sub would still be laughing at him, but now that he retired, everyone apparently forgot about his ridiculous stat padding
This is the same guy that tells his centers to not get rebounds so he can get them
Look, I know it’s celebrate Russ week, and I’m with it, but that first clip is why people struggle with him.
Makes a pass to a guy who can’t shoot, gets mad when he doesn’t shoot, and then is the last man back.
He’s a heck of an energy player, but his late game IQ was brutal.
They were winning by 20…
That’s the point. Game’s over and he’s still in there making bone headed plays chasing stats.
lol do you remember how people reacted to Bam’s 83 point game
Yea, blew it way out of proportion. What’s that got to do with this?
People don’t like when players pad stats in trash time. I feel like that point was fairly obviously drawn between the two situations
You’re all over the place here and expecting people to follow you?
Your example of this being an example of poor late game IQ dosnt make a lot of sense. They were comfortably winning. That’s why I was saying “They where winning by 20”
And people are babies. Wilt’s 100 point game by all accounts was stat padding. Kobe’s 81 was stat padding. Heck people even bitched when they took Klay out after his 37 point quarter, for I guess not stat padding?
They were winning, so why do you care?
Here is the post 8 years ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/B4tpDrB7pd
The narrative is that Russ is a triple double hunter. Now if you call him that today you are downvoted
This right here is why I don’t like russ. This is his entire career summed up, meaningless stat chasing and padding. He stayed in that late in a blowout just to try to get a triple double and was finally taken out when he failed.
He epitomizes loser basketball. And his fans are just as much of a loser as he is.
This 👆
“triple double cocaine bear”
I remember this game and that why I always say Westbrook triple doubles are completely manufactured
I never was a fan of the blatant statpadding.
I love how only one player of the two players being disrespectful to Russ is getting flamed in this thread.
now thats stat padding
If you play hard up 20 in garbage time you better be playing hard down 20 in garbage time and not sit on the bench
T A Wx
“Hahaha he can’t cheat like us, right Kev?”
“Steph can you go get me some water?”
I guess losing by double digits is funny to them
Not a stat padder though
Imagine being down 17 and laughing on the bench about the other team not beating you hard enough on the stat sheet.
i cant believe they did that bruh
Laughing while you’re on the wrong side of a blowout is something. Typical snake shit
Those were great looks
Looks like the Russ revisionism is out in full force since his retirement, maybe a counter to the anti-Russ revisionism that happened over the last few years.
Staying out and risking injury in a game that has long since been won just to stat-pad was, and still is, stupid as fuck.
KD burner post? Real ones haven’t forgotten what he did
I remember in a post game interview during the WCF between GSW and OKC when a reporter asked Russ about Steph’s defense on him and he laughed hella condescendingly… eat the karma, Russ
God DAMN we’ve had some clankers on our team for the longest time. The thunder learning to shoot is actually a recent development.
I genuinely dislike KD, lil b was right.
KD is such a snake. Wow
Op did you watch the clip you posted? They’re laughing as Paul George shoots after the Steven Adam’s pass. Idk anyone in this thread watched it either.
Curry has the same name as the well known ESPN guy but it’s pronounced complicity different. English is funny
Westbrook’s statpadding will be forgotten after some time, but the records will stay.
Also while it did lose them games, this is not the one. They’re up by like 20 points lol.
It didn’t lose them games when he had triple doubles they wanted a 75% clip you fuck are fucking insane with this him getting triple doubles lost them games they lost schemes because they had nobody else on that fucking team that was good enough to make it worthwhile of a season
Kd is such a salty fuck lol
Maybe kristaps porzingis should eat him. Could help with his POTS
KD tryna laugh and act unbothered lmfao