HOUSTON — Fans who arrived early for Sunday night’s N.B.A. playoff game between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder were treated to an advertisement on the humongous video boards that loom over the court at the Toyota Center. The ad, which was making its debut, was for Patrick Beverley’s summer basketball camp for children: Camp Lockdown.
If anyone was curious about the meaning behind the camp’s name, Beverley made it obvious once the game began.
As the Rockets eased their way to a 118-87 victory in Game 1 of their first-round series, Beverley applied an inhumane amount of defensive pressure on the Thunder’s Russell Westbrook, who labored through one of the more difficult games of his career.