Friday Bolts – 8.28.15

From Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports on Hurricane Katrina: “Randy Livingston reached out for help to the only person he knew in San Antonio in Presti, the San Antonio Spurs’ assistant general manager in late August 2005. Presti quickly agreed to aid the Livingstons, but there was a challenge in finding a woman he never met amongst hundreds of evacuees.”

Extra Mustard figured out Russell Westbrook plays well after T-Swift releases a single: “Westbrook has won nine of 10 games after the release of a new single, and the Thunder have outscored opponents by a total of 137 points. He has seen jumps in his field goal percentage each season, and is scoring two more points per game than his career average. Rock on, Russ. Let’s hope Taylor Swift drops some more singles this year so you and Kevin Durant have a shot at winning a title before he enters free agency next off-season.”

Russell Westbrook is getting married this weekend in LA.

J.A. Adande of ESPN.com: “The Hornets averaged 18,717 fans per game in Oklahoma City in 2005-06, more than 4,000 more than their league-lowest average in New Orleans the previous season. Revenues per game were about $800,000, twice the take in New Orleans. Not only did the city escape writing that $10 million check, it got to invoke the clause that let it share in profits over $42 million for the season. Something else was happening, a phenomenon that couldn’t be measured at the box office or by the accountants. The presence of these visitors from New Orleans, these outsiders, created a place that became a distinct reflection of Oklahoma City.”

Enes Kanter standing next to the world’s tallest man is strange. Kanter looks like me standing next to Enes Kanter.

Perry Jones disagreed with his NBA 2K rating.

If you missed it, heartbreaking news about Darryl Dawkins dying at 58.

Former teammate Mo Cheeks: “It was just insane that he broke the backboard because that was a new phenomenon, somebody breaking a backboard — it just didn’t happen,” Cheeks, now an assistant coach for the Oklahoma Thunder, said Thursday. “He used to tease me all the time, because when I got there, obviously Julius, Doc, was there, and we’d be on the break and we’d be running and I would always, let’s say 99 percent of the time, I’d pass the ball to Doc. And he [Dawkins] would say, ‘That Cheeks, he got one eye. The only eye he sees is Dr. J.’ … He got such a kick out of that.”