Scott Brooks: Westbrook is the second best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson

Scott Brooks praised Russell Westbrook after 14-point, 21-rebounds and 24-assist performance against the Indiana Pacers.

Per ESPN, Westbrook had 14 points to go along with his career-high 21 rebounds and career-high-tying 24 assists for his league-leading 32nd triple-double of the season. He has 178 triple-doubles, three short of Oscar Robertson’s career record, with seven games remaining this season for Washington.

Monday’s performance guarantees that Westbrook will average a triple-double in a season for the fourth time in his career; Robertson is the only other player to do this, and he did it once, in 1961-62.

“Point guards don’t do what he does. He’s not normal; they’re not built that way,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks said. “There may be someone that probably shoots better. There might be someone that probably can do certain things better. But there’s nobody in the history of the game that can do what he does throughout the stat sheet.

“I used to always say he’s going to probably go down as the third-best point guard ever, but I think he’s passed one. He’s going to go down as probably the second best, and [No. 1] is obviously Magic [Johnson]. He’s underappreciated. What he does, there are no point guards ever done it, nobody.”