Russell Westbrook Is Bullying The NBA

Well, well, well. Looks like someone's letting those bi-weekly triple-doubles halfway through the third quarter go to his head. I know it sounds silly to say that Russell Westbrook is asserting his dominance on his opponents after a night where he put up an absolute stinker of a stat line by his standards (20/6/6) and his team lost by 20 points, but that "oh, you want this ball? Fetch!" routine was straight off the playground. You can call it a spontaneous act of immaturity and you'd be exactly right, but it's a spontaneous act of immaturity that is bred from feeling like he's better than literally everyone else. Waiting until one of the best players in the NBA bends down to pick up a basketball before you casually boot off into the corner is not only the athletic equivalent of pulling the chair out from underneath someone, but it's proof positive that Russell Westbrook is taking that "now I do what I want" mantra to heart. You know who else does whatever they want without worrying about consequences? Bullies. There has never been a more fun bully to watch in action than the scorned Thunder star who has become the closest thing to a true one man show in professional sports.