Russell Westbrook and Patrick Beverley have one of the most heated rivalries in all of sports and it’s showing no signs of stopping.
A reminder: this all started when Beverley was a member of the Houston Rockets and he rammed into Westbrook — then with the Oklahoma City Thunder — a move that tore Westbrook’s meniscus in 2013.
Since then, we’ve seen, among other things, the police separate the two and some heated smack talk.
Toward the end of Thursday night’s Houston Rockets victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, Beverley fouled out. So Westbrook did exactly what you’d expect: he waved goodbye to his rival … and referees gave him a technical for it:
Westbrook — who scored 40 points, the first time a non-James Harden Rocket scored 40 since Kevin Martin in 2011 (!) — didn’t care that he got a technical at a crucial point in a huge game against a Western contender:
We can only hope this continues — and it probably will when these two teams meet again on March 5. But would it be too much to ask for a playoff series in which these two face off a bunch?
