Just 12 hours after the Thunder’s season ended back in late April, everyone who trekked from Salt Lake City back to Oklahoma was still bleary-eyed and road-weary. Russell Westbrook, as usual, was fresh-faced, determined and still stinging from the Thunder’s Game 6 loss to the Utah Jazz.
“I don't like breaks,” Westbrook stated. “I like to play.”
Staring at the long summer ahead, Westbrook knows he’ll get an opportunity to spend more time with his one-year-old son, but there’s that competitive drive, the furious, raging fire within him to compete that can’t be quelled. Regardless of what outside pundits suggested, Westbrook believes that the Thunder didn’t meet its own expectations in the 2017-18 season.