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Warriors’ Steve Kerr chimes in on the Russell Westbrook fan incident

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HOUSTON — Steve Kerr understood and empathized with Russell Westbrook’s anger.

Just like the Thunder guard experienced in Monday’s game against the Utah Jazz, Kerr also felt the wrath of a heckling fan that hurled personal insults. Westbrook threatened profanely to beat up Jazz fan Shane Keisel and his wife, contending that the coupled yelled “to get down on my knees like you used to.” When Kerr played as a senior guard for the University of Arizona in 1988, Arizona State fans taunted him about the assassination of his father, Malcolm, which happened in Beirut in 1984 when he served as an American academic that specialized in Middle Eastern affairs.