Rob Mahoney
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1,184 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rob Mahoney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And like you're right that the competitive peak of that was certainly with the Thunder team that went to the finals.
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But I think for me and for I would imagine a lot of people, when you imagine the platonic ideal Russell Westbrook in your head, when you're when you're thinking back on his career, it is like that 2017 era.
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I I would say specifically the game where he set the triple-double record against the Nuggets in Denver.
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Denver's like fighting for its playoffs.
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Off life and Russell Westbrook is just going, going, going, 50 piece game winner from the hash mark, triple double record all in one night, absolutely mobbed by the team.
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And it was just like that is who Russ will always be to me.
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He's he has all the other stuff too.
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He has all the catches, he has all the caveats, he had the kind of like slow decline of his game over time and the mid-range and the finishing and the defense that we've already talked about.
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But he was also the guy who I'm so glad you brought that Spurs example because so much of the question earlier, when Russ is like fully in superstar form about like how do you build a team around this guy?
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Who do we want around him?
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All the hand-wringing over like the Andre Robertsons of the world and whether they can get enough shots.
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The subtext of all those questions is Russell Westbrook is blowing our shit up.
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How do we have enough people who can just like carry water?
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around him to make this worthwhile.
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And there there was a period of time where I think that made absolute sense.
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And then there's this later period where as you alluded to he never quite adapted in the way that aging stars need to adapt.
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And it it turned it into a totally different conversation.
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I I could see the argument, especially as it relates to guys like CP, who have like interesting resumes but comparable ones in terms of overall achievement and never quite reached the MVP highs that Russ did.
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But this is where he really could have used a Chris Paul style
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Third, you know, second or third act that really stuck.
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