Light NBA Highlights

Oklahoma City Thunder's tribute to Russell Westbrook on his return to OKC
https://streamable.com/j8wfw

Chris Paul embarrasses Hartenstein with the nutmeg and finish
https://streamable.com/s1rlv

The Oklahoma City Thunder(22-16) defeat the Houston Rockets(25-12), 113-92 in Russell Westbrook's Return to OKCPost Game Thread

Hassan Whiteside makes a 3 and then starts ducking from shooters
https://streamable.com/o78pw

Shaq on the Beilein's thug vs. slug comments: "Stop being so sensitive. I grew up in the 80's and I got called worse than slugs" Ernie: "Worse than thugs?" Shaq: "Yes"
https://streamable.com/ir7iq

Ben Simmons improved to 11-0 against Kemba Walker

The Philadelphia 76ers (25-14) defeat the Boston Celtics (25-11), 109-98

Tristan Thompson 34/15/3/3/1 Game

Westbrook at the end of the bench
https://streamable.com/2i22b

[Russell Westbrook] It just felt like I was home. As simple as that. Thank you OKC 🙏🏾 #whynot #zeroregrets
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7IQMMXJd8z/?igshid=3zoxq6o38liq

In his return to OKC, Russell Westbrook checks out with 34/2/5 on 14/26 shooting

Tristan Thompson tonight: 35 points (15-20 FG), 14 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 blocks, and 1 steal.

Sigh......Sixers center Joel Embiid will have surgery on left hand tomorrow and be re-evaluted in one to two weeks, league source tells ESPN.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1215412007958208513

Al Horford  tonight: 17 points on 7-11 shooting, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 blocks

Schröder plays great defense on Harden, getting into his space without fouling, and Adams finishes off the dish from Gallinari at the other end
https://streamable.com/y0dac

Brook Lopez is having a monster defensive season only overshadowed by Giannis. Lopez leads the league in Block Percentage(2rd overall in total blocks), is the runner up for Defensive rating(98.8) and is 2nd in Defensive Box Plus/Minus(4.7)

Not to be outdone by Clint Capela, Andre Drummond, rebounding champions, records his own rebounder's triple-double: 28 points, 13 DRB, 10 ORB

72 Percent of LeBron's shots have been unassisted and is third in the league in running iso plays behind James Harden and Russell Westbrook.

OKC fan in the crowd gets personally attacked by Chris Webber
https://streamable.com/2e31w

Derrick Rose fights through traffic to take a two point lead
https://streamable.com/457ek

Horford with a nice touch pass to Richardson who throws it down
https://streamable.com/uj9zo

Whiteside for Three
https://streamable.com/83284

Darius Garland 20 Points/7 Assists

Ben Simmons' 5 Most-Defended Players by Matchup Minutes This Season are Jimmy Butler, Jayson Tatum, Bradley Beal, Pascal Siakam, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Those players have combined to score 50 points on 19-59 shooting when guarded by Ben Simmons.

Toronto Raptors star Pascal Siakam is expected to practice Friday with hopes of returning to lineup in the next week, league sources tell ESPN. He’s been out since Dec. 18 with a groin injury.
http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1215653730462445568

Here comes Austin Rivers
https://streamable.com/o62sa

At 14-3, the Jazz have the best home record in the West

Along with scoring career high 35 points, Tristan Thompson called plays for Cavaliers last night with 8 seconds to go in OT

Vince Carter still getting good hangtime on his dunks
https://streamable.com/upqz4