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“You can’t allow that”: Russell Westbrook says fans have too much leeway after kid hits him during Nuggets game

After a boy sitting at courtside hit Russell Westbrook during the Nuggets-Thunder game at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, Oklahoma city’s star guard said fans have too much leeway to touch players.

Russell Westbrook pulled the dad card on a Nuggets fan after the kid gave him a little push. pic.twitter.com/b4nBTXlV9r

“He hit me,” Westbrook said in a post-game interview with ESPN. “So I told his dad, you know, ‘Be careful, man. You can’t have your son just hitting random people. I don’t know him. He don’t know me.