The Athletic記者茉莉奈特在社交媒體上回覆了科爾之前對Russell Westbrook的評論，她表示Westbrook是她見過的最難對付的球員，並講述了自己採訪Westbrook的一個故事（以下均為該記者在Twitter上的回覆）。

Flew to Oklahoma City once to interview Westbrook about his new Jordan brand shoe. He was contractually obligated to answer softball questions. Wouldn’t look at me. Flipped a magazine the entire time. I finally walked out. Wasted a day of my life.

“有一次飛到俄城為喬丹球鞋代言採訪威少。合同要求他要回答問題。（回答問題時）不看著我，整個過程不停的翻著一本雜誌。最後我就離開了，浪費了一整天。”

Had I been just starting out in my career I probably would have panicked and thought I did something wrong. Maybe even gone back to my hotel and cried. But it had nothing to do with me. He just looks at media members as sub-human. So I just got up and left and went on with my day

“如果當時我剛剛開始採訪工作，那我肯定會驚慌失措，以為我做錯了什麼。或者會回到賓館哭泣。但那個場合不是我的問題，他（威少）看待新聞工作者就像看低等人一樣。所以我就起身離開了。”

I didn’t need this dude to like me or even be nice to me. I was just there to do a job, which would have helped him promote his shoe brand. I left thinking my god, what must the OKC media go through every day? Nice of Steve Kerr to speak up because it’s gotten ridiculous.

“我不需要這個人喜歡或者示好，我只是在履行我的工作，而且還在幫他宣傳球鞋品牌。我離開後想，我的上帝，俄城的記者每天都在經歷什麼？科爾能出來表態挺好的，因為這太荒謬了。”

大家都熟悉的梗“next question”就是威少針對俄城的一位記者發明的詞語，每當該記者提問，威少都會回答：next question。