First, Kendrick Perkins made a point of trying to shake up Patrick Beverley with a hard (and illegal) screen right off the start of Saturday's Game 4 between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets. Then, with the Thunder up by a whopping 26 points early in the second quarter after a Reggie Jackson jumper, Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin dribbled the ball over half-court and pulled up to call a timeout ... to which Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant responded by doing this:
Hey, that looks familiar.
I wonder if we're going to hear two days of breathless opining from columnists and TV talking heads about Durant's bush-league play, how the All-NBA forward so brazenly violated one of the unwritten rules of the NBA game by taking a hard, unnecessary swipe at Lin, who's playing Saturday with a chest contusion suffered during Houston's Game 2 loss on Wednesday, and how the 24-year-old All-Star is a cheap-shot artist who has no respect for the integrity of the game and the way it should be played.
Somehow, I doubt it.
Playing without Westbrook by his side for the first time in five years, Durant was brilliant in the opening half of Game 3 in Houston, scoring 27 points on 9 for 16 shooting, including a 3 for 4 mark from 3-point land, and grabbed six rebounds in 24 minutes. That's right: He played the entire first half, and Oklahoma City led Houston 66-49 at halftime.
Video via Daily Thunder's Royce Young.
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