Let me tell you about the guy I covered for two-plus years in Oklahoma City.
Russell Westbrook is not actually a righty. He may shoot with his right hand, but Westbrook does just about everything else with his left. He writes lefty, bowls lefty — and says, at least as of a couple years ago, that his high score is an impressive 279. For some reason, he shoots with his weaker hand. But his true self comes out every once in a while.
Near the end of his MVP season in 2017, a reporter from ESPN, Chris Herring, noticed Westbrook had slanted to his secretly dominant hand more than ever. The triple-double machine was going left almost three-quarters of the time that he drove to the hoop. Herring traveled to Oklahoma City to ask the nine-time All-Star, now the newest member of the Washington Wizards, about the tendency.
He closed a media availability following the morning shootaround with his question.
Why was Westbrook going left on 73 percent of his…
