Russell Westbrook was Christian Braun’s kind of player. “Downhill,” he says now. “Athletic. Tough. Mean. In-your-face.” Westbrook was a young star in Oklahoma City, leading the Thunder to the NBA Finals. Braun was an aspiring hooper in the Kansas City suburbs, less than five hours away. How aspiring, exactly? “Uh, I would’ve been young,” he said in July, as if calculating his exact age would cause him to blush. Eleven.

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