{"id":608477,"date":"2026-04-15T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:53:10","slug":"amazon-prime-stream-cuts-out-in-ot-of-heat-hornets-play-in-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608477\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime stream cuts out in OT of Heat-Hornets play-in game"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amazon Prime Video’s stream of the Miami<\/a>–Charlotte<\/a> play-in game went offline for nearly two minutes during the overtime period, causing fans to miss a Hornets possession.<\/p>\n

Stan Van Gundy, working the game as an analyst for Prime Video, was midsentence when the audio feed was lost coming out of a timeout with 48.1 seconds remaining. A message about “technical difficulties” began displaying on screens a few seconds later.<\/p>\n

When the video and audio feeds resumed, Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball<\/a> had scored for a 125-120 lead. Fans missed 22.1 seconds of playing time.<\/p>\n

“Tell me the game didn’t just cut off?!!? Am I trippin?? WTH,” Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star LeBron James<\/a> posted on X<\/a>, as the words “technical difficulties” began trending nationally across social media.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte went on to win 127-126<\/a>. A spokesperson for Prime said the issue was caused by “a hardware failure in our production truck.”<\/p>\n

“Our teams restored the feed as quickly as possible to ensure fans could watch the conclusion of the game. We are conducting a thorough internal review to determine the cause of the outage,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Prime Video has exclusive rights to all six games in this year’s play-in tournament. The streaming service began showing NBA games this season as part of the league’s new 11-year, $76 billion media rights deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amazon Prime Video’s stream of the Miami–Charlotte play-in game went offline for nearly two minutes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-608477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608477","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=608477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}