{"id":441725,"date":"2026-01-27T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:52:08","slug":"nba-fan-made-to-eat-his-own-tweet-after-unlikely-prediction-comes-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441725\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA fan made to eat his own tweet after unlikely prediction comes true"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NBA fan<\/a> has been forced to eat his own words thanks to a wild prediction.<\/p>\n

The fan, Robert Flom, replied to a post on X last month to discuss the current record of the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, who at the time had a 6-21 record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they go 15-3 in any stretch this season, will print and eat this tweet,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

However, after the Clippers<\/a> played Sunday against the Brooklyn Nets and won with a final score of 126-89 and achieved a 15-3 run, Flom had to start thinking about actually eating his social media post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were bad at everything,\u201d Flom, who runs a Clippers fan blog, said in an interview with The Athletic while explaining his reasoning. \u201cThey were a horrible defense. They were pretty bad on offense. They turned the ball over like crazy. They couldn\u2019t stay healthy. A lot of their older players had hugely disappointed. They weren\u2019t doing anything well, and it was 27 games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Los<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 blogger, Robert Flom, tweeted that he would eat his post if the team achieved a 15-3 record at any point during the season (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI didn\u2019t think they would be horrendous the entire season. I thought they would improve, but I thought 15-3, based on what we\u2019ve seen, seemed just about impossible, and they proved it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The X post quickly gained traction as fans began holding up an enlarged cardboard sign version during NBA games. The Clippers’ social media accounts started joking during Sunday\u2019s game about achieving their 15th win as they shared a photo on X of Flom\u2019s printed-out tweet with a caption that read, \u201cCTRL+P @RichHomieFlom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team also shared a video on X after the win, as player Kobe Sanders kept chanting \u201cPaper bowl paper bowl!\u201d<\/p>\n

Staying true to his promise, Flom appeared on Monday night\u2019s livestream of the Clips N Dip podcast as he held up a slip of paper with the tweet printed on it and proceeded to take a large bite out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty crunchy,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

Many people commented underneath the livestream, expressing how happy they were to see that Flom decided to stick to his word.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobert Flom is a man of his word and I respect him for it!!\u201d one person wrote in the comments, while another agreed, writing, \u201cThis is totally sweet AND historic! This gives new meaning to the old saying, \u2018You’re gonna eat those words!!!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, other commenters hoped Flom could post something similar to ensure the Clippers win a championship this year. \u201cCan he please tweet that if the clippers win a championship this year, he will eat a whole chapter book lol,\u201d one person joked in the comments.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Clippers are 21-24. While they used to be at the bottom of the Western Conference, they have since risen to 10th.<\/p>\n

The team is next scheduled to play Tuesday against the Utah Jazz at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBA fan has been forced to eat his own words thanks to a wild prediction. The fan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,5997,211001,7236,590,229669,85,111588,11898],"class_list":["post-441725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-kobe-sanders","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-robert-flom","tag-sports","tag-the-athletic","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}