The skit that “missed the mark” occurred in a break in play during the second quarter of Charlotte’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. The child was brought onto the court with Hugo, the Hornets’ mascot, dressed as Santa Claus. After a letter to Santa requesting a PS5 was read out loud, a cheerleader came out with a bag containing the video game console.

The young fan was visibly overjoyed as he received the pricy gift. However, according to an online acquaintance, he was less happy when the cameras turned off and a Hornets staffer took it away, replacing it with a jersey.

How would this commenter know that?

Source: trust me bro

I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid…

what? lies? on the internet? why would anyone do such a thing.

You want Lemmy adoption… you get folks with stature in the machine sharing mundane recon… you don’t believe anything.

That’s a Reddit comment though.

Look, I’m just engaging in critical thinking here. I don’t believe everything I read on the Internet especially since people love just making up random crap just so they can have a story to tell.

It’s entirely plausible this person knows the lady in question.

Unfortunately, this applies to 99% of people in power I know of, if they think they’ll get away with it, they’ll do it.

You don’t usually get into places of power by being thoughtful and considerate.

I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.

LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?

The team has revenue in the millions. They’d never have noticed the money. This should be in the dictionary under Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.

Kinda reminiscent of various Russian official events involving children.

That’s coincidentally the name of my last porno.

It could have literally been a tax write off

It could have been a glitch in tax calculator tbh. Not my point. And I agree with you. “LOL. Cheap bastards” was my point.

yeah, anything under 1000 was a rounding error.

Compared to the marketing expenses of even very small companies, a PS5 is so ridiculously cheap that these costs are not even worth mentioning.

I meant expensive for a kid. Of course, yes.

Sure. But the Hornets aren’t interested in the child, they’re only interested in marketing. The only way I can explain this is that either some employee wanted the PS5 and just took it from the kid or the Hornets’ marketing department thinks that even bad publicity is free publicity. Maybe they intentionally planned for the predictable media coverage on this matter because it also brings attention. If the Hornets wanted to buy this kind of exposure, that paltry $500 wouldn’t even begin to cover it.

Why? It’s a few hundred dollars, not a car or something.

If a PS5 is too expensive to give away, then don’t pretend to give one away.

I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this.

Not expensive for a literal NBA team.

Three. Billion. Dollars.

That’s what the team is worth and what it was sold for a year ago…

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