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Saturday, February 11, 2017
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Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) grabs a rebound in front of Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson (13) during the first quarter of thier NBA clash on Thursday.AP
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OKLAHOMA – The Cleveland Cavaliers considered resting their stars, then played the Oklahoma City Thunder at full strength and lost anyway.
Russell Westbrook scored 29 points and had his 26th triple-double of the season to lead Oklahoma City to a 118-109 victory on Thursday night.
Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue said after Wednesday’s win at Indiana that he was considering resting All-Stars LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, but they all started.
”There was a lot of drama going on before the game,” Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. ”Who’s playing? Who’s not playing. They’re in. They’re out. They may play. It looks like they’re going to play. I just really told our guys, even in shootaround this morning, it’s about what we need to do and we need to understand personnel like we do for every scout.”
Irving scored 28 points, James had 18 and Love added 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers beat New York, Washington and Indiana before ending their road trip in Oklahoma City.
”We would have loved to be 4-0, but coming off a back-to-back, you know they gave us everything they had,” James said. ”We go home extremely proud of what we did on this road trip.”
Victor Oladipo scored 23 points, Steven Adams had 20 points and 13 rebounds, and Westbrook added 12 rebounds and 11 assists in the 63rd triple-double of his career. Oklahoma City now can focus on its showdown with former teammate Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors on Saturday.
Westbrook hit back-to-back midrange jumpers to put the Thunder up 107-101 with 3:42 left. The Thunder increased their lead to 111-101 on a 360-degree layup by Oladipo with 2:07 to play that gave Westbrook his 10th assist and clinched his triple-double. (AP)
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