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Kevin Durant Has Russell Westbrook’s Back, Wants Him to Stay

The peo­ple call­ing for Rus­sell West­brook to be traded after the Thun­der were elim­i­nated by the Dal­las Mav­er­icks in the West­ern Con­fer­ence Finals are just plain crazy. In the end up on Horders kind of way.

West­brook is one of the best young point guards in the league, and while he made mis­takes he and the team are grow­ing. He is eli­gi­ble for a con­tract exten­sion once the lock­out ends and he should get one the first sec­ond the Thun­der can offer it up. Young stars like him are hard to come by. OKC was on the doorstep of the finals and all their core play­ers are 22 or younger. You don’t change things.

Don’t just take my word for it, take Kevin Durant’s. He spoke with Marc Spears of Yahoo.

“We butt heads just like any other play­ers because we are both com­pet­i­tive, we both want to go at it, we both have ideas,” Durant said in a phone inter­view with Yahoo! Sports on Sat­ur­day while on the movie set of his upcom­ing Warner Bros. film, “Switch.” “That’s going to hap­pen. But I sup­port him 100 per­cent. Of course, I hated when peo­ple were say­ing the stuff they were say­ing, and he hated it as well. I didn’t want it to get to his head. I hate when peo­ple try to creep into the group and try to break things up….

“I don’t want any other point guard,” Durant said. “He’s per­fect for us, the type of guy he is, the type of player he is, the type of team­mate he is. We’re all com­pet­i­tive, espe­cially me and him. We get the best of each other in prac­tice every day, and we want to go at each other and make each other bet­ter. We are going to have dis­agree­ments. That’s what all good play­ers on good teams do.”

West­brook does need to learn to lead bet­ter from the PG spot, work on round­ing out his game as a dis­trib­u­tor. But he also has done that — Game 7 against Mem­phis was a per­fect balance.

And he was 22 last sea­son. There is a lot of room to grow. That’s why you don’t make big changes — and if things con­tinue on the path they were on, there are titles in this team’s future.

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