SportsCenter confuses Devin Booker with arrested Notre Dame player
Aug 21, 2016, 1:29 PM | Updated: Aug 22, 2016, 11:36 am
.@SportsCenter whoops. @DevinBook pic.twitter.com/sHKYdf1ybT
— JTrain (@purplePHXorange) August 21, 2016
Notre Dame defensive back Devin Butler was arrested after he was involved in a scuffle with police officers Saturday morning, and that’s big news for the No. 10-ranked team in the nation.
So as ESPN’s SportsCenter does, it reported on the incident. Anchor Zubin Mehenti read all the details, but apparently those working on SportsCenter’s set missed a key detail themselves.
They used a picture of Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker while airing the story of Butler’s arrest.
Booker wasn’t hot on his photo being mistakenly used.
Really… @espn @SportsCenter
— Devin Booker (@DevinBook) August 21, 2016
Mehenti was forced to make an on-air correction.
“We all here at SportsCenter do sincerely apologize for that mistake,” he said later on.
Somebody in the SportsCenter production department probably got a stern talking-to, at the very least.