Last night’s Rockets-Clippers showdown endured a brief but very unusual delay at the start of the second half.
Houston came out of the locker room and started warming up on the basket it would be shooting on in that half. That’s when Russell Westbrook thought he noticed something wrong with the hoop. The rim was crooked, he claimed and he wanted somebody to fix it.
A guy came out with a ladder and a level to check it out. He shook his head and said, “It’s perfect,” even taking a photo of the level with his phone for proof.