Triple-double talk getting on Westbrook's nerves

Even as he's racked them up at a rate not seen in over 50 years, Russell Westbrook has continued to insist triple-doubles aren't important to him.

Still, it's hard to ignore the fact that the Oklahoma City Thunder tend to win nearly every time he records one. They're 27-3 in such games the past two seasons, and went 6-1 during his recent seven-game run of triple-doubles.

On Wednesday night against the Utah Jazz, Westbrook was held triple-double-less for the third consecutive game, and the Thunder lost their second straight. The loss owed more to the Jazz shooting over 58 percent from the field (56.5 percent from deep) while the Thunder shot 36.6 percent (Westbrook shot 7-of-25), but because of the intersection of outcomes, he was asked about it after the game.

His response was predictably prickly.

"Honestly, man, people and this triple-double thing is kind of getting on my nerves, really," Westbrook told reporters, according to Brett Dawson of NewsOK. "People think if I don't get it, it's like a big thing. When I do get it, it's a thing. If y'all just let me play - if I get it, I get it. If I don't, I don't care. It is what it is. I really don't care. For the hundredth time. I don't care. All I care about is winning, honestly. All the numbers s--- don't mean nothing to me."

That would seem to definitively put an end to the subject, but given that Westbrook is still averaging a triple-double - something that hasn't been done over a full season since Oscar Robertson in 1961-62 - something tells us it won't be the last we (or Westbrook) hear about it.