NBA Fans Livid YouTube TV Played ‘Little Mermaid’ Trailer on Loop Instead of Final Minutes of Celtics-Heat Game 1

With mere minutes left, the livestream crashed and seemed capable only of delivering a Disney trailer.

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Wednesday wasn’t YouTube TV’s best moment.

As the Celtics and Heat brought the Eastern Conference Finals Game 1 to a close, the platform's broadcast—as many Bostonians would say, to which this writer can attest—shit the damned bed.

“This all happened with just over four minutes left in the game and the Heat holding onto a five-point lead on the road,” Sports Illustrated reports. “The game went to a commercial break and that’s when the stream just lost it.”

Naturally, Disney's trailer for the Little Mermaid remake starring Halle Bailey played on repeat instead.

Get a look at the communal grieving over YouTube TV's Game 1 airball below. The Heat won 123-116, and the live-action motion picture The Little Mermaid premieres May 26 at a theater near you.

Every nba fan going to YouTube headquarters after getting the little mermaid ad on YouTube tv for 20 minutes pic.twitter.com/n3NxBtLaje

— John (@iam_johnw) May 18, 2023

YouTube tv making me watch this Little Mermaid commercial 100x instead of the Heat-Celtics pic.twitter.com/AFwskmyDFc

— Beanie Seagull (@DaBlackHoward) May 18, 2023

NBA fans watching the Heat vs Celtics on YouTube TV pic.twitter.com/WxKsvYG4HB

— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) May 18, 2023

YouTube TV during the final minutes of Celtics-Heat pic.twitter.com/x9RapNoFM0

— christy (@christynh_) May 18, 2023

YouTube TV stopped working country-wide during the final minutes of Heat/Celtics tonight.

With the NFL moving Sunday Ticket exclusively to YouTube TV, they're banking this won't happen come September. pic.twitter.com/uXuGyIEC7w

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 18, 2023

Youtube TV when the Celtics heat game decides to get good. pic.twitter.com/cjKDNoPL6K

— Joey watson (@Joeywatson09) May 18, 2023

I’m plugging my tv back into the wires above my house tomorrow I’ll pay $1000 for cable at this point https://t.co/wN8hwtMFEa

— Honk The Bobo (@ColeyMick) May 18, 2023

YouTube TV seeing the Eastern Conference Finals is on pic.twitter.com/B3l59PSaxQ

— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) May 18, 2023

We’re all missing the game.

But I tell you what, watching 10 minutes of that Little Mermaid trailer has me HYPED on that joint now 🥴🤣 pic.twitter.com/4sQkWaKZ3f

— That’s Freakin’ Wrestling Podcast (@ThatsFNW) May 18, 2023

Me realizing that YouTube TV has the rights for Sunday Ticket pic.twitter.com/ho1b0uZMPj

— Blake Garman (@FrostedBlakes34) May 18, 2023

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