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Devin Booker takes care of Suns fan in viral arena fight

Delfin Dioquino

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Devin Booker takes care of Suns fan in viral arena fight

RECOGNIZE. Phoenix star Devin Booker sends his love to Suns fan Nick McKellar.

Isaiah J. Downing/USA TODAY Sports/Reuters (Booker) and Hoop Central's Twitter video screenshot (McKellar)

Devin Booker will gift Suns faithful Nick McKellar a signed jersey and tickets to the Western Conference finals after a dust-up with a Nuggets fan

NBA star Devin Booker is rewarding the Phoenix fan featured in a viral arena fight as he proved prophetic to the Suns’ sweep of the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference semifinals.

According to ESPN reporter Zach Lowe, the All-Star guard will gift Suns faithful Nick McKellar a signed Booker jersey and tickets to the conference finals after a dust-up with a Nuggets fan.

In a video that has now been watched by millions, McKellar pummeled the Nuggets fan near the end of the Suns’ Game 3 win in Denver before he made his fearless forecast.

“Suns in four,” McKellar said while flashing his fingers.

McKellar said he acted in “self-defense” as other videos showed the Nuggets fan pouring a drink on him.

While McKellar still did not fight back from that incident, he said he retaliated only after the Nuggets fan went in for a “sucker punch.”

Booker caught wind of McKellar and immediately searched for him.

“[I] just want to say sorry, hate to make us fans look like heathens. Just acting on self-defense,” McKellar wrote in a message sent to Booker.

Just like how McKellar claimed, the Suns toppled the Nuggets in four games of their best-of-seven affair, closing out the series with a 125-118 victory.

The Suns will face either the Los Angeles Clippers or the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference finals. – Rappler.com

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Delfin Dioquino

Delfin Dioquino dreamt of being a PBA player, but he did not have the skills to make it. So he pursued the next best thing to being an athlete – to write about them. He took up journalism at the University of Santo Tomas and joined Rappler as soon as he graduated in 2017.