Britney Spears has reportedly filed a police report alleging battery after she was backhanded and knocked to the ground by a member of the NBA star Victor Wembanyama’s security team on Wednesday night in Las Vegas. The alleged incident, first reported by TMZ and later confirmed by Rolling Stone and Us Weekly, occurred at Catch restaurant at the Aria hotel around 8.30pm. Spears, her husband, Sam Asghari, and two other guests were entering the restaurant when she spotted Wembanyama, the NBA’s tallest active player at 7ft 4in. According to sources, Spears, reportedly a fan of the 19-year-old French phenomenon, approached Wembanyama to ask for a photo together and tapped him on his back. The director of security for the San Antonio Spurs, which drafted Wembanyama first overall last month, then allegedly backhanded Spears, knocking her to the ground. The security guard allegedly apologized to the 41-year-old pop star as she continued with dinner, stating: “You understand how it is when you’re being swarmed by fans”. After their security teams conferred, Spears’s team filed a police report alleging battery. “On July 5, 2023, at approximately 11 pm, LVMPD officers responded to a property in the 3700 block of Las Vegas Boulevard regarding a battery investigation,” police said in a Thursday statement. “The incident has been documented on a police report and no arrest or citations have been issued. No further details will be provided at this time.” The Guardian has reached out to representaives for Spears, Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs for comment. Wembanyama, who has been called a “once-in-a-millennium prodigy”, will make his highly anticipated NBA debut as a Spur this Friday in Las Vegas as part of the NBA’s Summer League, according to NBA insider Marc Stein. He is considered by many to be the most promising NBA prospect since LeBron James entered the league in 2003. Spears has been living in Los Angeles since a judge terminated her family’s 14-year conservatorship over her in 2021. The ruling allowed the singer to assume control over her reportedly $60m estate and no longer pay a team of professionals and attorneys to oversee her affairs. She married Asghari in June 2022.