Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook answers a question after practice at FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn., Friday, April 25, 2014. The Oklahoma City Thunder will play the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 4 during the first round of NBA playoffs on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman

Had an interesting exchange with Russell Westbrook today at Thunder practice. It was a conversation that started off innocently enough, but as these things tend to do with Westbrook it took an unexpected turn. But when it did, I tried to get to the bottom of something.

Why some Thunder players, particularly Westbrook and Kevin Durant, feel like people are trying to pull them apart? Durant said exactly that earlier this week during a Sunday Conversation segment he taped with Westbrook for SportsCenter.

Here’s the transcript of our back-and-forth, with my thoughts on each response in italics.

Q: I know you can only speak for yourself, but do you feel like you and KD get sort of frustrated when you see your teammates missing and it kind of makes you guys want to take over even more?

Nah. I mean, you want to win. Regardless of whoever is open, whoever missed a shot, I mean nobody’s perfect. Not myself. Not Kevin. Not anybody. So I mean, obviously you want your teammates to do great and make shots. But when the game is close and down the line, I mean you got to make decisions.