Thunder legend Russell Westbrook may have just been OKC's MVP in playoff series

Russell Westbrook is 1 of the champion players successful the abbreviated past of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Ironically, that continued successful a backwards mode during OKC's seven-game bid triumph implicit the Denver Nuggets successful the Western Conference semis.

Westbrook plays for the Nuggets now. He's a agelong mode removed from his MVP, triple-double averaging days with the Thunder.

And helium might've conscionable played 1 of the worst postseason bid successful NBA history. The Thunder fans surely don't mind.

For the series, Westbrook was a negative-92 successful plus/minus. That included -34 successful Game 7.

His seven-game averages were 9.9 points and 2.4 assists per game, with 2.6 turnovers per game.

Westbrook changeable 34.8 percent from the level and a ghastly 21.9 percent from 3-point land.

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The Nuggets had seat and extent issues, truthful Westbrook benignant of had to play arsenic a secondary creator by default, but it was a nightmare.

It's a brutal autumn from grace for Westbrook, who was an exhilarating subordinate astatine his peak.

His highest is simply a long, agelong clip ago.

Westbrook is inactive susceptible of the occasional flash play. He adjacent had a crippled this twelvemonth erstwhile helium added a triple-double to 1 by Nikola Jokic.

But the playoff stage, against tenacious defenders similar these existent Thunder, was excessively much. Russ wasn't equipped to grip it. 

His vocation adjacent steps are uncertain. But his erstwhile squad is moving on, successful a narrowly won series, successful which Westbrook was by acold the worst player. There's a bittersweet irony successful that.

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