Don’t touch the players.
Occasionally players will high-five people courtside, crash into them and spill a beer chasing a ball, and there is trash talk, but a person sitting courtside risks getting tossed from the arena if they reach out touch a player.
Which is what a young Nuggets fan did to Russell Westbrook on Tuesday night — standing, reaching out and pushing him — and Westbrook handled it like a patient father.
Westbrook said he spoke to the dad about this, not the boy.
“He hit me. So I told his dad, ‘be careful, man, you can’t have your son just hitting random people. I don’t know him, he don’t know me...You’ve just got to control your kids.’”
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) February 27, 2019
Russsell Westbrook on incident with kid & fans having too much leeway.
Via @BDawsonWrites pic.twitter.com/uCi5jx50tU
It was a young boy making a mistake, and Westbrook is a father. He gets that, and good on everyone for not letting this go over the top.
But you can’t touch players during a game.
