MINNEAPOLIS — Out-of-town scores are not easy to track at the Target Center.
They flash one by one on four end zone corners of the ribbon board, below the arena’s second deck. Seeing them all from the Oklahoma City Thunder bench Wednesday required a long, steely stare.
Russell Westbrook was too busy dismantling the Minnesota Timberwolves to pay much attention. Oklahoma City needed to win and New Orleans to lose for the Thunder to claim the eighth playoff seed in the Western Conference, so Westbrook did what he has done for the last two months — dominate.