Is Russell Westbrook the fastest player in the NBA? That’s debatable. Is he the fastest player in this game winner? You bet he is.
Good god, the Washington Wizards didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell defending that. Even if the closest defender had been able to rotate over it still wouldn’t have mattered, because Westbrook is just that fast. In this play alone he shakes off his defender, manages to out run a double team, get around the last man standing between him and the rim, and then get the shot up before the clock runs out. This is an incredible athletic feat, and he makes it look so easy. How does this guy do this? Having this kind of speed is not fair, and is only comparable to the super speed cheat code in a video game.
Things Russell Westbrook might be faster than: a cheetah, a Ferrari, Usain Bolt, a speeding bullet, the pizza guy, Jimmy Johns, and a peregrine falcon.
The only thing that might be faster than Russell Westbrook at this point is a grizzly bear riding a unicyle on the back of a spaceship, and the only reason for that is because he has yet to discover space travel. Give him a few more years and Wesbrook is going to be space warping from one end of the court to the other, and then Adam Silver is going to make that against NBA rules — which will be lame, but who cares because dude this guy can space warp how cool is that?