This Little Kid Hit A Half-Court Shot Right In Russell Westbrook’s Eye

As a seventh-grader, there can’t be many things cooler than beating your basketball idol in a game of one-on-one. Except maybe beating said idol with a half-court shot.

One youngster lived out that dream at Russell Westbrook’s basketball camp over the weekend, when he topped Russ by drilling a smooth half-court prayer right in his eye for game point. As to be expected, the rest of the campers highly enjoyed it. As for Westbrook, he took his L gracefully and with class, offering up a hug and leading a round of applause for the victorious kid.

It’s been a pretty rough offseason for Westbrook, though. Not only did he lose his running partner Kevin Durant to a conference rival, but now he’s getting bested by kids at his own basketball camp. That’s not ideal.

Sure, Westbrook presumably wasn’t going at full speed, but that doesn’t change the fact that this kid gets to say he spent his summer vacation beating an NBA star mano a mano. When they go around the classroom sharing summer stories on the first day of school, that anecdote is sure going to beat the hell out of whatever anybody else has to offer.

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