Russell Westbrook had a pretty standard Monday ahead of him. He'd go to practice that morning, review film of the Oklahoma City Thunder's overtime win over the Utah Jazz the night before, then that evening he'd attend the team's annual Holiday Assist charity event where they buy gifts for underprivileged kids.
But in between, Westbrook had a different Christmas wish to take care of.
Janneh is a 13-year-old boy from Moore, Oklahoma, who has spent the last six months at the Children's Center Rehabilitation Center in Bethany. He's there because in June, while riding his bike, a bullet from a drive-by shooting hit him in the neck, crushing his third vertebrae and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.