Russell Westbrook Is Going To Win The Shaqtin’ A Fool MVP For This 6-Step Travel Alone

Russell Westbrook is incredible. He does a seemingly impossible thing on the basketball court every night and makes them look routine. It’s absurd how high he can jump, how fast he can run and how tenacious he plays. But even Russ isn’t above the rules and core tenets of basketball. Yes, even he has to abide by the simple stuff, like traveling. But Westbrook pushed that concept to the limit in the Wednesday night showdown with Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors with a glorious, hilariously egregious and ultimately silly 6-step traveling violation.

It’s unclear what happened here. Maybe Russ is actually some sort of basketball-playing android and he malfunctioned for a brief second. Maybe he forgot the rules to the game he’s been playing since he was a small child. Or maybe, like Dave Chappelle’s white friend Chip, he simply didn’t know he couldn’t do that.

To make it all even funny, Russ appears to be telling his teammates — or hopefully himself — to use their head’s afterward. The referees let him get away with it for a second, and maybe this solves the age old question: What constitutes a travel in the modern NBA? The answer appears to be somewhere between five and six uninterrupted steps, in the middle of the court, for the world to see.

×