It feels like decades ago that Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant were positioned are rivals to one another. The latter’s departure from Oklahoma City created such a firestorm that the two once friends were very much enemies for some time.
Nowadays, the pair are far more cordial and the storyline of Russ vs. KD barely moved the needle ahead of Sunday’s meeting between the Lakers and Nets. The tensions haven’t certainly come down enough that the two were matched up against one another a number of times throughout the night and nothing particularly came of it, certainly in comparison to past similar showdowns.