After being called “Robin” to Kevin Durant’s “Batman” for his first seven years in the league, I suspect Russell Westbrook is “Bruce Wayne.”

Based on the police interview videos, he hit on her outside the Cafe, she turned him down and tried to get away from him by going inside. He followed her in (supported by the second camera angle) and one of her friends did demand that she be left alone. Then Mixon said something along the lines of “You’d rather go…

She attempted to get away from him. She entered the Cafe to flee from Mixon because of his aggressive attempts to pick up on her. The security footage shows him stalking after her. The confrontation only occurred because Mixon would not allow her to get away from him.

Call them excuses, but I’d be interested if you disagree with any of the points.

That’s all well and good, but he did hit a woman, and it was because she refused to sleep with him. Considering that, I guess if it had been a man, he would be ostrasized for an entirely different reason.

It’s so funny that people think the cure is that easy. Like Andre Roberson is going to be perusing Deadspin comments and have an epiphany after reading your comment. “Practice! Man, no one has ever suggested that, and I have never taken a practice free throw. I’ve just been satisfied shooting 25% for the season.”

If anyone other than Russell Westbrook wins the MVP, they will simply be a trivia stumper for “Who won the MVP the year Russell Westbrook averaged a triple-double?”

Tramel is a radio show host during the week and one of his pet peeves is athletes reverting to vanilla “coachspeak” when speaking to the media. Then, he gets a great story out of Westbrook and his response is “I asked Steven!”

Meanwhile, the woman behind him has only a scorecard to protect herself.

Victor Oladipo is their second best shot creator, and late in the shot clock, he takes two dribbles at the top of the key and ships the ball to Semaj Christon (who is 19% from three) like it was a hot potato.

Who were the referees? I can’t find them mentioned by name anywhere. They aren’t even included in the box scores anymore. I blame Kentucky fans.

A few corrections. 1. Harden was already on the Rockets. 2. It was right before halftime, and Russ played with torn cartilage in his knee (scoring, like, 32) in the second half before being ruled out the rest of the playoffs. 3. Beverly dove at him after Russ had called timeout and was handing the ball to the ref.

An interesting facet that was left out is that Wiggins only joined Louisville to begin with because he followed Grantham there. Now Petrino is blocking Wiggins from doing the thing Petrino encouraged him to do three years ago.

I like the way he handled it. Let the moment speak for itself.

Getting 10 assists/game alongside a starting lineup in which Victor Oladipo is the only other player that can make a shot from more than five feet from the basket should get him in the hall-of-fame. MVP, easy.

Regardless of who wins the MVP, everyone in the future will assume that Westbrook was the 2017 MVP. In five years, only Rockets fans will remember how well James Harden played, but every NBA fan will remember what Russ did this year.

The way we know Trump didn’t make championship rings for his staff is that QVC hasn’t sold replicas in between the “rare” gold coins and the ornamental dinner plates with Trumps face on them.

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I mean, Southwestern Christian isn’t a big school if you limit the comparisons even to other schools in Oklahoma City. I doubt his paycheck was good.

Geez, the Thunder, when Westbrook is on the bench, are painful to watch. Last night, they scored 10 points in the second quarter, none in the 4+ minutes Westbrook rested.