Anyone else. Almost anyone else in the NBA and I'd presume this was nothing more than a coincidental product of ironic circumstances. Almost anyone else and I'd think that unforgiving flagrant foul wasn't as much of a long-overdue execution of a poignantly promised revenge plot as much as it was a desperately physical play between two players whose contentious history is water under the bridge at this point. Fortunately for haters of Cro-Magnon brutes who have little business on a basketball court these days, it was not anyone else. It was Russell Westbrook, and for that reason I couldn't be more positive that that proverbial bridge was about as eternally burned in his brain as the image of Zaza Pachulia towering intimidatingly over him before a single ripple crossed under its shadow. Two years and change, during which a largely irrelevant goon that evolution appears to have left behind changed teams from the one with which Brodie harbors eternal animosity, and there's not a doubt in my mind that in that moment vindication was on his mind as he brought down the hammer to that oversized head. ​As an appreciator of timeless and unconditional grudges, I respect the hell out of that type of long-term memory for the malicious. Especially when it results in the ass of a reckless idiot having finally been gotten back with a vengeance by a player who prides himself on never forgetting.
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