Second thoughts

was still seething by a moment in the first overtime when Thunder center Steven Adams fouled out and Embiid waved goodbye to his counterpart.

So after the game, Westbrook

mocked Embiid’s gesture by smugly waving and pointing at the Sixers center as he walked off the floor in defeat.

Speaking to the media in the locker room afterward, Westbrook explained his parting message.

Never one to back down, Embiid shot back with a dig at Westbrook’s inefficient scoring night, which included 23 missed shots. While outscoring Westbrook by seven points on 14 fewer shots, Embiid had the last laugh at Westbrook’s expense.

Westbrook won the game, but getting into a war of words with Embiid likely won’t end well for the Thunder’s explosive point guard. Embiid has a list of victims on his Twitter feed to prove his prowess.

Easy ticket

So who really are the professionals?

Tickets for four NFL games dropped below the price of three prime high school matchups in California and Texas this weekend, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today reported. Saturday was a huge day for high school football, with Mater Dei-De La Salle (Calif.), Allen-Cedar Ridge (Texas) and Katy-Lake Travis (Texas) all having implications for national prep rankings.

But it’s not the high prices on those games that’s noteworthy. Tickets are selling in the $10 to $15 range for all three games. It’s the discount-bin prices on the secondary market for some real stinker NFL matchups that raise eyebrows.

The L.A. Times found tickets on secondary seller Vivid Seats on Thursday morning for Sunday’s Dolphins-Bills matchup in Buffalo going for $12. That’s a premium price compared to Cardinals at Redskins, Ravens at Browns and Thursday night’s snoozer between the Broncos and Colts in Indianapolis. Tickets could be had for the low-low price of $5 for each of those games.

Outside of Bills-Dolphins, they’re all terrible, low-stakes Week 15 matchups. And even with the Bills and Dolphins still in the playoff hunt, it’s still Bills-Dolphins in Buffalo in December. Pack three jackets.

It’s a challenge the NFL faces every year late in the season when sorry teams out of the playoff hunt inevitably take the field.

But, still. Five bucks. That’s got to set off some alarm bells at NFL headquarters.

AP/CHRIS SZAGOLA Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder scored 27 points in leading the Thunder to a 119-117 triple-overtime victory over the Philadelphia 76ers, but he didn’t care for Sixers center Joel Embiid taunting Thunder center Steven Adams when Adams...