Russell Westbrook turned 29 Sunday, and the Thunder crowd failed to sing “Happy Birthday.”
Hard to blame the Russ-adoring throng. If there had ever been a three-second gap in the action or the music, a serenade would have sprung up organically. Sort of like Westbrook's takeover of basketball games.
Westbrook, in this season of acquiescing, again was not the star Sunday night. That mantle again fell on Paul George, a wonderful ballplayer who sizzled with 37 points in the Thunder's 112-99 rout of Dallas.
But Westbrook was the reason the Thunder broke free from the woeful Mavericks.