SAN ANTONIO -- Russell Westbrook had blood covering his face after taking a flagrant foul to his forehead when LeBron James intervened to pull the Los Angeles Lakers point guard away from the fray and cover the cut with a towel in the third quarter Saturday.
It wasn't the flashiest sequence the pair were involved in together in L.A.'s 143-138 win over the Spurs -- that distinction belongs to their double alley-oop in the first half -- but it was the most significant.
"His health is more important than the game of basketball," James said after the game.