Russell Westbrook was every bit the MVP-caliber friend as he has been a player this season, offering his help to Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Enes Kanter, who was detained at a Romanian airport last weekend due to a cancelation of his Turkish passport.

“Let me know what I can do,” said Westbrook in a text message, according to a self-written piece by Kanter in The Players' Tribune.

“That is Russ,” Kanter wrote of the text.

The All-Star dynamo also sent him a hashtag #FreeEnes, which trended on Twitter during the time he was detained, until he was allowed to continue his travel back to the United States.

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Despite the endless rumors of Kanter's value on the power forward/center market this offseason, Westbrook seems to want him to stay and has been as loyal a friend as they get.

It seems like those Stache Bros MVP-campaign videos have paid off after all.