Politics don’t seem too prone to over-exuberance in Oklahoma City.
After learning Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook has agreed to sign a giant contract extension to remain with the team for the foreseeable future, OKC mayor Mick Cornett reacted Friday with the understatement of the year.
Cornett is factually correct, as Westbrook, 28, is firmly among the millennial generation, and certainly carries a high profile as the reigning NBA MVP and also signed terms, which will tie him to OKC through 2024.
As a four-term mayor of OKC, Cornett and Westbrook undoubtedly have crossed paths at some point since the Thunder drafted him in 2008. Perhaps an inside joke might explain Cornett’s seemingly understated reaction to the announcement the Thunder so desperately wanted, and needed, to make.
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