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The five stages of grief for a basketball dunked by Russell Westbrook

Here lies another NBA basketball, gone at the hands of Russell Westbrook. We hardly knew ye, Spalding.

The Thunder guard/triple-double tornado attempted to destroy another ball Monday night, this time against the Pistons. Midway through the first quarter, Westbrook blew past Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on his way to a rim-rattling dunk that forced the ball through the basket with the same force as a space shuttle re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

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