Los Angeles Clippers star Russell Westbrook got into a fiery exchange with a fan as he walked out to the court at halftime during a playoff game against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.
Westbrook, in a video clip posted to Twitter, is seen talking with a Suns fan sitting on a couch as someone who appears to be a Clippers staffer stands between them.
“Watch your mouth,” Westbrook says as he’s shepherded away from the fan.
“Take it like a man,” the fan replied.
“Watch your mouth, motherfucker, watch your mouth, straight like that, watch your mouth,” Westbrook continued.
“Talk about it, be about it,” the fan said in response.
The exchange went down at the Club Gila River area of the Suns’ Footprint Center, a “shortcut” between the visiting team’s locker room and the arena floor, according to Arizona Republic reporter Duane Rankin.
The interaction occurred in the midst of the Clippers’ 115-110 victory over the Suns in the first game of their first-round playoff series.
Twitter user @BCH66223, who shared the clip on Sunday, tagged the Suns in the post and wrote that the team needed “better security.”
“Seems reasonable for a halftime fan engagement,” the user wrote in a separate tweet to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Westbrook has had heated interactions with fans in the past including one with a Milwaukee Bucks fan in December, another with a Utah Jazz fan in 2019, and an exchange with a Philadelphia 76ers fan in 2021.
The Suns, in a statement reported by Arizona Republic, said they are “aware of the incident that happened tonight and are conducting a review.”
HuffPost has reached out to the NBA for comment.