Russell Westbrook has already responded to the video that went viral of him hitting a jump shot in warm-ups and then running out the tunnel while appearing to yell out, “Thank you, Kyrie!”

Reporters caught up with Westbrook just before tip-off of the Thunder's game at home vs. the Timberwolves tonight and asked him point blank what exactly he yelled out.

His response was not NSFW.

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A refresher on the full story: Kyrie Irving made the game-winning shot to lift the Cavaliers over the Warriors which made it plausible that Russ would be happy about that result in light of Kevin Durant's departure from OKC.

https://twitter.com/okcthunder/status/813158644506312704

Russ' story makes sense too though and it's very possible everyone was reading too much into the video. It just happened to make for a better story so who can blame them?