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David Thorpe has his doubts the Thunder can even beat the Rockets, let alone win a title. And Russell Westbrook's injury is only part of the story....

A who's who of NBA players are on the shelf. A team made of Russell Westbrook, Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Rajon Rondo, Danny Granger, David Lee, Danilo Gallinari, Amare Stoudemire, and Lou Williams would contend. Instead all those players...

David Thorpe explains that Russell Westbrook and Kobe Bryant are similar in that they have physical advantages on almost every possession. That's a good thing, except when the job is not to attack. To a hammer, as they say, everything looks like a na...

Deron Williams, Ty Lawson and Russell Westbrook have all had struggles of late. David Thorpe offers his diagnoses....

Kyrie Irving, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, Ty Lawson, Eric Bledsoe, George Hill, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard ... David Thorpe on the next generation of NBA guards....

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Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images The Thunder point guard calls his own number even when Kevin Durant is wide open. Maybe you have heard about Kobe Bryant's past habit of ball hogging late in games, passing up wide open looks for his teammates, dragg...

The phantom is a very expensive kind of camera (favorite comment: "this camera is better than my eyes") that takes this high-resolution slow-motion videos. I could watch it all day. Some favorite moments include the Russell Westbrook and Andre Ig...

David Robinson deserves more credit as a role model of handing power to teammates. That underlies a lot of what has been working for a long time in San Antonio. Tiny, insignificant point. It is generally assumed that Russell Westbrook holds onto th...

US Presswire Kevin Durant scores 25 points as the Thunder eliminate the Lakers from the postseason. After a couple of scares in the Western Conference Semifinals, the Oklahoma City Thunder eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers, 4-1. It's the Thunde...

Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman: Young legs ran circles around veteran mettle. Thunder blue routed Laker purple. Rest trumped rust. And Russ trumped them all. Russell Westbrook was the best player on a court full of all-stars, Kevin Durant was right th...

Ronald Tillery of The Commercial-Appeal: If the goal was to make the Oklahoma City Thunder's dynamic duo of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook uncomfortable then mission accomplished. If the goal was to bring the soaring Thunder back down to earth by...

Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman: Kendrick Perkins recently rounded up Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant to sit them down for a talk that he considered much-needed and, perhaps, long overdue. The big man wanted both to check their egos at the door....

John Rohde of The Oklahoman: Russell Westbrook once again ruled the roost for the Thunder. So this doesn't sound like a broken record, I try to ask a different teammate to share their thoughts on Westbrook whenever he turns in a superb performance, a...

Whoa, that Derrick Rose rule could mean Russell Westbrook will have a bigger salary than Kevin Durant. Two nice young men in a system that is just dying for them to be rivals. An argument the Spurs ought to use the amnesty clause on Richard Jeffers...

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