As the sports world fixated on Thunder-Warriors on Saturday night, and as the hostile sellout crowd inside Chesapeake Energy Arena filled the atmosphere with “Cupcake” chants, Lee Jenkins was eating Mexican with his family in Santa Monica, Calif. But the man who brought Russell Westbrook’s sly Fourth of July slight of Kevin Durant into our collective conscious couldn’t help but peak occasionally at the bar’s television. He saw what everyone did. Signs. T-shirts. Costumes. All disparaging the former Thunder star turned Warriors nemesis.
Jenkins, the superb takeout writer for Sports Illustrated, uncovered the true meaning of what most took to be an innocent Instagram post by Westbrook.