Oklahoma City
Westbrook has 15 triple-doubles this season and 34 in his career. It’s the most triple-doubles by a player in a season since 1988-89, when Magic Johnson had 17 and Michael Jordan had 15.
It was also Westbrook’s sixth triple-double in March. According to Stats LLC, it’s the most by a player in a calendar month since Jordan had seven in April 1989.
Kevin Durant scored 23 points and Dion Waiters added 17 to help the Thunder win their fifth straight.
James Harden had 24 points, a career-high 16 assists and seven rebounds for the Rockets. Dwight Howard had 16 points and 13 rebounds, and Patrick Beverley added 16 points.
New York — Nicolas Batum scored 23 points and Charlotte beat Brooklyn.
Jeremy Lin added 21 points, a night after scoring 29 in Charlotte’s rally from 23 down to beat the San Antonio Spurs.
Brook Lopez had 29 points, nine rebounds and a season-high six assists.
Batum hit two big shots down the stretch to key the win. Batum had a four-point play to put Charlotte up 91-84 with 4:11 left and 3-pointer to extend the lead to 96-88 with 2:44 remaining.
Bojan Bogdanovic cut the deficit to 98-97. Kemba Walker then sank two free throws to push Charlotte’s lead to 100-97 and the Hornets never looked back.
New Orleans — Hassan Whiteside had 24 points, 14 and three blocked shots, and Miami beat injury-ravaged New Orleans.
Dwyane Wade and Goran Dragic each scored 23 points for the Heat, who’ve won nine of 12 games to put Miami in position to grab a playoff seeding as high as third in the Eastern Conference.
Jrue Holiday scored 24 for New Orleans, but missed 16 of his 23 shots. His shooting struggles against Miami’s stout defense was part of a theme for New Orleans, which shot only 39.1 percent (34 of 87) for the game.
Luke Babbitt scored a season-high 23 points for the Pelicans, who trailed by double digits for much of the game before briefly getting as close as five points in the fourth quarter.