NEW ORLEANS - Finally, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were in total sync, revealing their shared disinterest in the searing attention their seemingly fractured relationship has inspired.
They just did it in ways as dissimilar as Westbrook's on-court ferocity and Durant's relative stoicism.
Durant did not want to talk about Westbrook. Westbrook did not want to talk about Durant. Rarely in the months since Durant famously sent Westbrook a text message saying he was leaving have they been so in agreement.
After all that had happened between them since Durant bolted Oklahoma City and the Thunder and Westbrook answered in last week's meeting with trash talk delivered with his most unforgiving bark, they were to be teammates again as Western Conference All Stars.