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Westbrook 1st player since Big O with consecutive 30-point playoff triple-doubles

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Chalk up another triple-double for Russell Westbrook, who notched his second in as many games with his 10th rebound in the third quarter of Friday's Game 3 against the Houston Rockets.

The Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star finished with 32 points, 13 rebounds, and 11 assists on 11-of-24 shooting as the Thunder barely hung on at Chesapeake Energy Arena to defeat Houston 115-113, giving him a second straight 30-point triple-double in the playoffs. He's the first player to accomplish that since Oscar Robertson did so twice in 1963, according to Elias Sports.

Westbrook's also the first player since Blake Griffin in 2015 to record consecutive postseason triple-doubles of any kind, and the first player since Jason Kidd in 2002 to notch back-to-back triple-doubles in the same series.

It was Wednesday night in a four-point loss to the Rockets at the Toyota Center in Game 2 when Westbrook recorded the highest-scoring triple-double in postseason history. He dropped 51 points, secured 10 boards, and dished out 13 assists in 41 minutes of action, breaking the previous record of 43 points, held by both Oscar Robertson and Charles Barkley.

Friday marked the seventh postseason triple-double of Westbrook's career, which ranks eighth all time. He's one behind The Big O for seventh, two behind Wilt Chamberlain, and three back of Larry Bird and Rajon Rondo.

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