Russell Westbrook scored 49 points on Wednesday night en route to his FOURTH STRAIGHT triple-double, an incredible feat that was last accomplished by Michael Jordan in 1989. It’s hard to put it all into words, but Spencer Lund at DIME tried to.
Or, instead of words, we could sum the performance up in one play. This one:
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THIS ONE:
We plugged this play into the Internet Database to find an adequate coast-to-coast match for it. Only one result came up.
If this NBA season was a video game, there would be a standing house rule that no one is allowed to play using Russell Westbrook.