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Monson: A laughing Donovan Mitchell teaches an offended Russell Westbrook one last lesson

People can be idiots. Especially when they pay hard-earned cash to buy a ticket to get a seat in an arena to watch their team play — and root it on — against dastardly infidels, decked out in different-colored tank-tops and shorts and sneakers from some other city in some other state in the NBA playoffs.

Here’s a shocker: A few of them are really mean, saying things, screaming things at human beings — tall, fast, athletic, talented, rich, famous ones — they’d never say or scream in any other place. And any number of those things could be considered rude, low-minded and boorish.