Westbrook struggles in losing effort.

OAKLAND — As it turned out, Russell Westbrook’s flashiest move Thursday night came when he entered Oracle Arena.

The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard, who had been a one-man thresher through his first four games without former running mate Kevin Durant, entered the building wearing a headband, white pants and a bright orange vest that read “Official Photographer” across the front and back.

Westbrook, who had refused to answer any questions about Durant at the team’s shootaround before the 122-96 Warriors’ win, was firing a rather obvious potshot at the Warriors’ new forward. Durant has taken up photography as a hobby and shot photos at Super Bowl 50 for the Players’ Tribune.

Westbrook, playing it as straight as he could, said he picked up the smock on a trip to Madrid.

“I saw photographers walking around with the thing on, and I thought it was a great fashion idea, something for the collection,” Westbrook said. “There’s no story behind it. I don’t wear anything for anybody. I wear what I want to wear.”

Whatever his intentions, the mere sight of Westbrook and the Thunder had Durant snapping sharp-focus shots almost from the outset. He scored 29 first-half points, making 11 field goals including 6 of 8 3-point tries, and left the game midway through the fourth quarter having totaled 39 points.

Westbrook, who came into the game averaging a ridiculous triple-double of 37.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and 10 assists through OKC’s first four games — all victories — was tame by comparison.

Westbrook was 3 for 13 in the first half, including 1 for 10 in the second quarter, and had 12 points and six assists at the break, by which time the Warriors had reversed an early 10point deficit and blown out to a 25-point lead.

Durant, meanwhile, outscored the Thunder by himself in the second quarter, 16-11, as part of Golden State’s 37-11 decimation in the period that gave them a 68-43 lead. Westbrook and Durant did cross paths before the game when players from both teams attended chapel behind closed doors, but beyond that, they barely looked at each other and did not shake hands before the opening tip.

Both players did exchange blocked shots of each other in the second quarter. Westbrook briefly slowed Durant’s secondquarter explosion with a block with 2:55 to go in the half, but Durant returned the favor with 2:01 to go when he swatted away a driving Westbrook runner (although the block was credited to Draymond Green).

Perhaps the most surprising development of the first half was that Westbrook, who generally plays with a chip on his shoulder, seemed somewhat subdued while Durant proved to be the one who played angry, at one point getting into a jawing match with the Oklahoma City bench.

He finished the third quarter with a driving dunk as time expired to effectively put an exclamation point on the showdown.