Thunder take Lakers 113-96, West Coast tour next — but Westbrook doesn’t care who OKC is to play

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Posted By: admin October 30, 2016

The ink wasn’t dry on the Thunder’s 113-96 win over the Lakers on Sunday night before attention was turned west — to Oklahoma City’s West Coast tour this week against the LA Clippers and the awaited match up against the Golden State Warriors and some guy named Ken Durant.

But Russell Westbrook, who scored another triple-double against the Lakers, would have none of it.

“Honestly, it don’t matter who we play in a back-to-back. We could play the Globetrotters, all I care. It don’t matter. Our job – we’re going to go out and play one game at a time and try to get a win, ” Westbrook said.

Westbrook scored 33 points, had 16 assists and 12 rebounds in the Thunder win.

Although Westbrook became the first NBA player to score more than 100 points in the opening three games of a season, he wasn’t entirely pleased with his 51 points triple-double two nights earlier. Against the Lakers he focused more on his assists.

Westbrook took a career high 44 shots against Phoenix on Friday and he criticized himself afterward. This time he made 11 of 21 field goal attempts.