Watch Russell Westbrook Rise Up Over Two Defenders For This Sick Putback Jam

The Thunder aren’t fair. Kevin Durant is pissed off, and Russell Westbrook plays pissed off. Oh yeah, they’re also two of the top 10 players in the NBA today. The coach and the surrounding players are important, and they can’t do it alone, but sometimes they sorta can.

As Nuggets coach Mike Malone — who is facing them tonight — said before the game: “they’ve got two of everything.”

Through three quarters against Malone’s Denver Nuggets, KD has 25 points on 8-of-11 shooting and five dimes. Russ has 15 points (7/13) and he’s knocking on the door of another triple-double with nine rebounds and eight assists. One of those rebounds, and one of those buckets came on a Steven Adams miss that both Danilo Gallinari and Darrell Arthur had a chance to snag.

Except, Russ happened.

Russ always seems to happen, you know? He’s perpetually happening, like a less pompous and more easily understandable M. Night Shyamalan movie sans suicide-inducing Mother Nature.

Just look at this laser beam he whips to to KD on the break for an easy dunk.

That’s just ridiculous, and it was perhaps the third- or fourth-most impressive thing he did in the first three quarters against the Nuggets.

The Thunder have two of everything in KD and Russ, but solo KD and solo Russ would be enough for most teams. We doubt either will return in the fourth after they helped OKC outscore Denver 37-20 in the third.

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