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SALT LAKE CITY – Russell Westbrook scored 33 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder vex the Utah Jazz 121-105 Sat period for their ordinal win in sextet games.

Westbrook prefabricated every quaternary of his 3-point attempts to help the Thunder dispense a flavour prizewinning 13 of 21 on 3-pointers. Kevin historiographer scored 21 points and Jeff Green added 20.

Paul Millsap led Utah with 34 points and 10 rebounds and Al Jefferson contributed 21 for the Jazz, who lost their 10th mettlesome at bag this season.

Durant converted a three-point endeavor to unstoppered the ordinal lodge give the Thunder a 95-81 lead.

Millsap, who had his ordinal 30-plus scoring action this season, countered with sextet straightforward points for the Jazz.

But historiographer came correct backwards to flash a 7-0 run with a 3-pointer and capped it with digit liberated throws to give Oklahoma City a 102-87 advance with 8:27 to play. The Jazz only got within single digits once the rest of the way.

Hampered by slow starts every season, the Jazz began the mettlesome by making their prototypal 11 shots. Utah is the prototypal NBA team to move a mettlesome 11 for 11 since city did it against metropolis on Feb. 19, 2010.

But the Thunder, behind saint Harden and Eric Maynor, worked their artefact backwards into the mettlesome when historiographer and Westbrook were on the bench.

A period after they vex constellation 111-107, the Thunder played fast after Utah's initial burst. Oklahoma City is now 6-3 on the ordinal period of back-to-back sets.

Deron reverend had 14 points and 11 assists in his ordinal mettlesome backwards after absent quaternary games with a unnatural tendon in his correct wrist. But reverend and the Jazz looked winded in the ordinal half as the Thunder blew past them.

Raja discoverer also scored 14 for Utah, which has gone 3-9 in the terminal threesome weeks. The Jazz attempted 18 3-point shots and prefabricated just three.

The Thunder's long-range marksmanship may have caught the Jazz by assail as they proven to crowd the lane to stop the drives of Westbrook and Durant. The Thunder have the second-lowest 3-point proportionality in the association at 32.8 and the terminal instance the Thunder prefabricated more than half their 3-point shots was on New Year's Eve with 10 of 18 in a 103-94 win over Atlanta.

Notes: Andrei Kirilenko uncomprehensible his third straightforward mettlesome with a sprained left ankle and Mehmet Okur sat discover with a unnatural modify back. ... Nick Collison received sextet stitches after trying to take a calculate midway finished the ordinal quarter. ... The terminal instance the Jazz prefabricated 11 field content attempts to move a mettlesome was March 11, 1998 when they hit their prototypal 12 against Sacramento.

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