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Defending Russell Westbrook: how the Celtics contained the superstar

To be clear, Russell Westbrook stuffed the stat sheet against the Celtics. Coming into Sunday's game, he had two consecutive triple doubles and against Boston, he finished with 27 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, and 2 blocks in the loss. If you just looked at the box score, you would have thought he had a great game. He went to the line 17 times--more times than he did combined in the Thunder's three-game winning streak leading up to last night--but was 5-for-20 from the field with four turnovers. Did the Celtics stop him?