The Oklahoma City Thunder found themselves in some controversy this last week after a bad comment from their play-by-play announcer.
During the Thunder’s season-ending win over the Memphis Grizzlies, play-by-play man Brian Davis said point guard Russell Westbrook was out of his “cotton-picking mind” as he continued to fill the stat sheet. This was widely viewed as racist, and it led the Thunder to suspend Davis from his duties for the opening game of the playoffs.
Davis has apologized publicly and privately met with the team. On Saturday, Westbrook condemned the comment while adding that he was ready to move on.
“Brian has been here for a while. What he said wasn’t OK,” Westbrook said, via Erik Horne of NewsOK. “We all understand that. But he definitely came in and talk(ed) to us. The team has made the decision to do what they need to do. We just have to move on from it.”
Teammate Paul George agreed, adding that the team’s focus is on their playoff run.
“He just addressed the situation. That was it,” George said. “That’s not where our focus is right now. It happened. He owned up. He took it head on. That’s for the front office and him to discuss. They did, so we move on. We move on. We got something bigger to focus on and be worried about. So again, it happened, but we’ll move on.”
Westbrook has had other worries, too. With the playoffs looming, the Thunder will want to put this behind them and focus on that instead.
