Russell Westbrook At The Peak Of His Powers
The Lead
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🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Wednesday would have been the final day of the NBA regular season. With that in mind — and because we are all missing basketball — we’re looking back at one of the most amazing regular season performances of all time. That would be Russell Westbrook’s iconic 50-point triple-double to break Oscar Robertson’s single-season record in 2017, and The Athletic’s Erik Horne joins us to revisit Westbrook at what may have been his absolute peak.
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| 0:00.0 | with his 42nd triple double. |
| 0:08.0 | Russell Westbrook has broken the single season record established more than a half century |
| 0:14.0 | ago by Oscar Robertson. |
| 0:17.0 | History rewritten in Denver. |
| 0:23.0 | Yesterday would have been the final day of the NBA regular season. |
| 0:26.9 | So because of that and because we all just missed basketball so much, we're looking |
| 0:31.6 | back at one of the greatest regular season performances of all time. |
| 0:36.6 | Three years ago, Russell Westbrook put in an iconic 50 point triple double performance. |
| 0:43.2 | And today we're joined by Eric Horn of the Athletic to relive that game, to talk about |
| 0:48.1 | how Westbrook carved out his own basketball identity after Kevin Durant's departure, |
| 0:53.5 | and how that single game may have represented the absolute peak of Westbrook's powers. |
| 1:00.0 | Visiting crowds were just infiltrated with thunder fans or Westbrook fans. |
| 1:04.7 | Every stop he goes to, he's like a superstar. |
| 1:07.7 | So by this point, Westbrook's a supernova. |
| 1:17.0 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:19.4 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:20.9 | It's Thursday, April 16th and this is The League. |
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| 1:57.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 1:59.0 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 2:00.0 | And we are the hosts of A Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
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