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Thursday, April 6, 2017
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A hounded Russell Westbrook (center) storms past the Dallas Mavericks during their NBA clash on Tuesday.AP
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OKLAHOMA – Russell Westbrook is poised to break an NBA record that has stood for more than a half-century.
Westbrook, whose Oklahoma City Thunder travels to Memphis on Wednesday to meet the Grizzlies, needs just one more triple-double to break Oscar Robertson’s single-season record of 41.
Robertson averaged better than a triple-double — something else Westbrook is on the cusp of doing –during the 1961-62 season when he set the record.
“It wasn’t something I thought about,” Robertson told The Oklahoman newspaper recently.
Probably because the term triple-double hadn’t been coined and it wasn’t yet an official NBA stat.
Westbrook tied the mark on Tuesday in Oklahoma City’s 110-79 rout of Milwaukee. He finished with 12 points, 13 rebounds and 13 assists in just 27 minutes, his shortest time on the court in a triple-double game this season.
Westbrook needs just 16 assists over the team’s final five games to average a triple-double for the season. His current season averages in points, rebounds and assists: 31.9, 10.7 and 10.4.
“It’s something that I could never dream about growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles,” Westbrook said. “I never dreamed about a moment like this, to be able to be on this stage.
“I air-balled a 3 right after (tying the record). But at the same time, we were winning, and that’s the most important thing. Tonight was a great night.”
The Thunder (44-33) holds the sixth seed in the Western Conference. Memphis (42-36), which lost 95-89 in overtime in San Antonio on Tuesday, is 2 1/2 games behind in seventh. (AP)
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