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Being inflexible<\/em> about routines…<\/p>\n

“He builds his days around a series of inflexible routines: calls to his parents, a designated parking spot, morning shooting on Court 3. He expects every room to be neat and clean, at work and at home.”<\/p>\n

from westbrook story (NYT Mag):<\/p>\n

“In the swirling cloud of contradiction that surrounds Westbrook, one paradox stands out. He often looks, on the court, like a force of pure chaos: a wild, petulant, fire-breathing hothead. And yet he is also, especially in his personal life, relentlessly devoted to order and control. He builds his days around a series of inflexible routines: calls to his parents, a designated parking spot, morning shooting on Court 3. He expects every room to be neat and clean, at work and at home.<\/p>\n

Before games, Westbrook always eats a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, and it must be prepared just so: bread cut on a diagonal, fillings spread very thin. (In Oklahoma, the team chefs know exactly how to do it, but on the road Westbrook can\u2019t trust anyone, so he makes it himself.) Three hours before tipoff, Westbrook warms up; at T-minus-60 minutes he goes to chapel. When the pregame countdown clock hits precisely 6:17 \u2014 never a second more or less \u2014 Westbrook leaps off the Thunder\u2019s bench and screams, \u201cTwo lines,\u201d initiating the team\u2019s final layup drill. I asked Westbrook if there was some kind of numerology behind this \u2014 a June 17 birthday, a favorite Bible verse. \u201cNo particular reason,\u201d he said. \u201cI just do it. Nothing special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Westbrook is unbelievably attuned to the tiniest details of his shoes. He has his own personal rack at the practice facility. \u201cMost guys, I can just bring a pair of shoes,\u201d the Thunder\u2019s equipment manager, Wilson Taylor, told me. \u201cRussell wants a certain pair. He knows which are for games, which are for practice. He determines which shoes are coming on a road trip.\u201d When Nike sent Westbrook its latest model, the Jordan 31, he wasn\u2019t happy with the sole flexibility, so he asked the company to build him a special hybrid using the previous model\u2019s sole. Even in that custom shoe, however, the insoles aren\u2019t thick enough for Westbrook, so Taylor replaces each of them by hand.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being inflexible about routines… “He builds his days around a series of inflexible routines: calls to his parents, a designated parking spot, morning shooting on Court 3. He expects every room to be neat and clean, at work and at home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}