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Charlotte Hornets pretended to give 13 yo fan a PS5 on court and took it back off camera

LectureMaster

LectureMaster

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They gave him a jersey instead. And Hornets lost that night. LMAO.


sports.yahoo.com

Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera

Unbeknownst to the kid, the Hornets were only pretending to give him a console.
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laynelane

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What a shitty thing to do and they did it in front of the audience too (who were confused about why they were taking the PS5 away from the kid) - no shame at all. The kid ended up getting the PS5 plus will get VIP treatment at a future game, but this whole thing was easily avoidable.
 
Nonehxc

Nonehxc

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LectureMaster said:
They gave him a jersey instead. And Hornets lost that night. LMAO.


sports.yahoo.com

Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera

Unbeknownst to the kid, the Hornets were only pretending to give him a console.
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
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Ahhh, the wonders of being very tired and dumb. 🙂

I was like' Who's Charlotte Hornets and why did she give a 13 yo fan a PS5 in court? Was she into child abuse and tried to last moment bribe the little bastard into backtracking testimony? And since he/she they wouldn't go along, she just took it from their hands in front of the judge? WTF?!?!?' 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I mean, you and I know there's happenings of extreme dumbness all day erryday in this our Earth, and we get to watch them and facepalm for the human race.

Turns out this time it was my turn. 🫠🫠🫠
 
Dorfdad

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what the hornets can't afford to give the kid a 499.99 console after charging 10+ for a hotdog and 3.50 for bottle of water!

WTF is wrong with these people. Why even risk the PR nightmare that this is going to cause them! Jesus some people are dumb
 
Robb

Robb

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You have to wonder what is going through the mind of people who come up with stunts like these.
 
Fbh

Fbh

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Yeah, it's just bizarre anyone would think saving $450-500 is worth the potential backlash from this.
 
Kacho

Kacho

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Crystal Winters said:
well I guess I have to then. Don't want to cause trouble or be linked with someone who may or may not be a site troll.
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You liked a post of mine and thought you were him.

On topic, reminds me of this:



Michael Jordan had to flex on the organization to pay that man. Why the hornets would do this for something as cheap as a PS5 is beyond me...
 
DeepEnigma

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Funny that Caitlin Clark comes along and puts the WNBA on the map and 99% of the WNBA hates her for it
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And she bent the knee in Time and it backfired. They still hate her.

Never bend the knee, capitulate or apologize to these ideological and racist psychopath narcissists. But she's only 22, she just needs better people around her. Going to be hard in such a vicious PR industry.
 
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playXray

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You don’t want to know how many replies I had to read before I realised Charlotte Hornets wasn’t actually a woman, but is instead some kind of sports team.
 
DKehoe

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Weird. It's not even that expensive a thing to give away in the grand scheme of things. They had to know it would get out that they faked it.
 
StreetsofBeige

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Never saw this bit during the WWF days. But hilarious. Reading up on it, his parents did get the $500. In fact it was said they go paid before even doing the skit.

 
StreetsofBeige

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Funny that Caitlin Clark comes along and puts the WNBA on the map and 99% of the WNBA hates her for it
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Every owner and player should be kissing her feet she arrived. Ratings way up (though I believe heavily skewed to her games, but that still counts), sponsorship up, most TV coverage Ive seen ever.

It's like a food bank that relies on donations and government funds for decades got lucky and a rich guy walked in one day and gave them a cheque for a million dollars. And if they want more, just put his mugshot on every charity ad and people will donate.
 
StreetsofBeige

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
I have never watched any WNBA myself but I did see Clark play in College when Iowa came to Bloomington to play my Hoosiers
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There was an unusual amount of WNBA games on my sports channels this past year, and it wasnt even all Clark games.

Trust me. Dont watch them. It's like watching women's hockey. It's painful to watch.

BUT, if you like watching high school kids or little league baseball kind of games where its not so much talent and player awareness, but more abbout having fun with unpredictable crazy scrambling, unorganized play, air balls or zero slapshots from far out, then womens team sports can be a draw. In womens hockey there isnt even hitting. There's a certain unique kind of wackiness watching womens sports which comes from weaker physiques and player positioning that makes it resemble a freak show sometimes.
 
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HeisenbergFX4

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StreetsofBeige said:
There was an unusual amount of WNBA games on my sports channels this past year, and it wasnt even all Clark games.

Trust me. Dont watch them. It's like watching women's hockey. It's painful to watch.

BUT, if you like watching high school kids or little league baseball kind of games where its not so much talent and player awareness, but more abbout having fun with unpredictable crazy scrambling, unorganized play, air balls or zero slapshots from far out, then womens team sports can be a draw. There's a certain unique kind of wackiness watching womens sports which comes from weaker physiques and player positioning that makes it resemble a freak show sometimes.
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I love Little League Baseball, have worked with so many kids in the last 25 years since my retirement

But yeah if I sit down and watch Basketball it’s going to be men’s and I prefer College because of the atmosphere
 
Zacfoldor

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Nah, fuck that shit. Where can I donate?

What a puckered bunch of assholes who decided that. The kid should sue.

Can the Hornets not afford one Playstation 5?

Season 4 Andy GIF by The Office
 
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yogaflame

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StreetsofBeige said:
There was an unusual amount of WNBA games on my sports channels this past year, and it wasnt even all Clark games.

Trust me. Dont watch them. It's like watching women's hockey. It's painful to watch.

BUT, if you like watching high school kids or little league baseball kind of games where its not so much talent and player awareness, but more abbout having fun with unpredictable crazy scrambling, unorganized play, air balls or zero slapshots from far out, then womens team sports can be a draw. In womens hockey there isnt even hitting. There's a certain unique kind of wackiness watching womens sports which comes from weaker physiques and player positioning that makes it resemble a freak show sometimes.
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They plan to lower the basketball rim so women can reach it and dunk and make it more exciting.
 
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