ABC mistakenly hypes up Knicks-Cavaliers for Eatern Conference Finals Game 1

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Somebody at ABC hit the wrong button on Saturday.

The Detroit Pistons defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 7 of their playoff series on Friday night, sending the 1-seed Pistons to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they’ll take on the New York Knicks, who have been hanging out for a while since sweeping the Philadelphia 76ers.

The conference finals will be broadcast on ABC and ESPN, and the folks who put together the promo package have had plenty of time to prep them. Presumably, they made two versions of the promo to hype Game 1 of the ECF, one featuring the Pistons and one featuring the Cavaliers. And as soon as Detroit won, the Cleveland versions should have gone in the trash.

Unfortunately, instead, they ended up on ABC affiliates all over the country.

“The Cavs eye another upset,” the promo begins, presuming that they’d just knocked off the top team in the Eastern Conference.

Lest you think this was a case of your local affiliate making a mistake, a quick look around the country shows that the incorrect commercial ran on ABC affiliates from Alabama to California, South Carolina, and Alaska.

We imagine someone over there has caught the snafu by now and fixed it. And we can also assume that once the tongue-lashing is over, whatever process failed to make that happen is about to be sorted out.

Still, we wish the Cleveland Cavaliers the best for the duration of the NBA Playoffs.

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