The5th

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[Orange-Blue Gator @Orange_Blue_G8r]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Russell Westbrook retired today with the most triple-doubles in NBA history. The name written on his wrist for all 18 seasons belongs to the kid UCLA actually wanted. That kid died at 16, and Westbrook spent two decades playing for both of them.

Westbrook was a 5'8", 140-pound freshman that no college recruited. The call UCLA's head coach made to his high school in 2004 was about Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's best friend from across the street in Hawthorne. A 6'6" phenom pulling scholarship offers as a sophomore. The two had a pact to play at UCLA together, then the NBA.

In May 2004, during a pickup game at LA Southwest College, Barrs collapsed on the court. An undiagnosed enlarged heart.

Westbrook walked across the street every morning after that to do his friend's chores at his grandmother's house. Then he grew 7 inches, averaged 25 a game as a junior, and took the UCLA offer they were supposed to accept together. From that point on he played like a man carrying two careers.

The numbers he put up look like typos.

209 triple-doubles is the most in NBA history, and it took breaking Oscar Robertson's record that stood for 47 years. In 2017 he averaged a triple-double across an entire season, something no human had done since 1962, then did it three more times. 27,176 points, 14th all time. 10,351 assists, 5th all time, behind only Stockton, CP3, Kidd, and LeBron. He did all of it at 6'3" in a league of giants, and outlasted the franchise that drafted him. Seattle picked him 4th in 2008 and stopped existing before he played a game.

And in every one of his 1,301 games, he wore two wristbands. One said KB3. The other said "Why not?"

People spent 18 years asking why he played every possession like the building was on fire. He was playing for two.

[Orlando Magic @OrlandoMagic]

WAGIC WIN🪄

[Florida Gators Men’s Basketball @GatorsMBK]

ADD IT TO THE RAFTERS

[Russell Westbrook @russwest44]

Didn’t have to chase the numbers, just the joy. The rest followed.

Humbled and grateful through it all.

#whynot

[Southeastern Conference @SEC]

TRUE FRESHMAN Dallas Wilson balled out in his debut 💪

@GatorsFB x #SECFB

[The5th @21_hicks]

@DudespostingWs @BrillDumbShow @BeardownCuz @RobbyBerger

[Florida Gators Football @GatorsFB]

Gators Always.

#GoGators

[The5th @21_hicks]

@barstoolsports @CheetoSantino

[Florida Gators Men’s Basketball @GatorsMBK]

YOUR 2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.

[The5th @21_hicks]

This is big time for the program 🐊

[Brandon Stratton @Stratton_38]

Jack is ready for tonight! #GoGators

[Florida Gators Men’s Basketball @GatorsMBK]

SWEET SIXTEEN BOUND

[The5th @21_hicks]

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[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Dan Hurley walking off the court:

“I hope they don’t f*** you like they f***ed us, Baylor. I really hope they don’t” 😳

[The Rubber Duck ™ @TheRubberDuck79]

watch over 1200 musicians and cover-bands perform the Nirvana song Smells Like Teen Spirit simultaneously.

[The5th @21_hicks]

@Tommyollis Easily a double double 👀

[The5th @21_hicks]

@Ceffrey_Jrisan Like clockwork

[NBA @NBA]

COLE ANTHONY GAME WINNER 🚨

MAGIC CLOSE ON A 22-4 RUN 🤯

[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

“I play every hole as a par 5, so if I par every hole I shoot a 90.” -@BarstoolGruden

COACH GRUDEN. ONE OF US.

[Brandon Stratton @Stratton_38]

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[Orlando Magic @OrlandoMagic]

FRANZ CALLS GAME

@franzboogie