So try to keep up with this story, because it's extremely confusing.
The Charlotte Hornets came up with this little skit for Monday's game against the Sixers. Apparently there was supposed to be some sort of playful joke in "gifting" a kid a PS5 and then, though it's not in the video I'm about to show you, taking it away from him off camera.
Check this out:
Yup, gave the kid a PS5 and then took it away!
‘At this point, everybody thinks that Jack is going to get this PS5, including all the dancers, all the cheerleaders, everybody basically like, starts congratulating him,' Phillips [the boy's uncle] told QCN. ‘There was even a Hornets dancer who actually gave him the PS5 … she starts to pack it up for him in the bag.
‘Then we get kind of like all the way to the backstage and, you know, the guy who kind of found us in the first place, he starts to kind of take it away. And everybody thinks he's joking because nobody would think he'd be taking the PS5 from the kid.
‘It got pretty awkward because, eventually, he had to make it … clear that he wasn't joking.'
The Hornets would later call this "an on-court skit that missed the mark."
Here's the statement from the Hornets:
So now they gotta give away both the PS5 and that VIP experience!
All because of an "on-court skit that missed the mark."
The Hornets reached out to the family to apologize, and it sounds like there's no hard feelings here.
