{"id":608843,"date":"2026-04-15T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608843\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:46:09","slug":"fans-left-in-dark-during-prime-nba-outage-and-wolves-games-are-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608843\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Left in Dark During Prime NBA Outage \u2014 and Wolves Games Are Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">NBA fans no longer have a backup viewing option when things go wrong, and that became a problem Tuesday night during the Eastern Conference play-in tournament game between the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">That game, which Charlotte won in an overtime thriller, was streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime, just like Games 1 and 3 of the upcoming Timberwolves-Nuggets series will be.  <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Viewers were hit with technical difficulties at the worst possible time, with 48 seconds left in overtime, during a timeout, while the Hornets were leading Miami 123-120. The audio dropped out first, and then the screen went black. After 20 seconds of nothing, a &#8220;Technical Difficulties&#8221; screen was displayed. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">The disruption lasted 1 minute, 48 seconds, and by the time the video and audio were restored, the Hornets were leading 125-120, meaning viewers missed LaMelo&#8217;s Ball&#8217;s layup with 26 seconds left in the game. Instead, fans waited in agony as funky music played over the technical difficulties display. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Video&#8217;s broadcast went off the air for nearly two full minutes during overtime in Heat-Hornets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oStTMMprNm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oStTMMprNm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sports TV News &amp; Updates (@TVSportsUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVSportsUpdates\/status\/2044240092529656008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">Amazon Prime Video stated that viewers &#8220;experienced a temporary disruption due to a hardware failure in our production truck.&#8221; A company spokesperson added that they &#8220;restored the feed as quickly as possible to ensure fans could watch the conclusion of the game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">Prime has exclusive rights to roughly one-third of the league&#8217;s first- and second-round playoff games. The odds of another technical difficulty occurring are probably pretty slim. Still, the pressure is on Prime to ensure smooth sailing the rest of the season, including Games 1 and 3 of the Minnesota-Denver series, and perhaps more, since the TV and streaming details haven&#8217;t been revealed for Games 5, 6, and 7 (if necessary).   <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">Here&#8217;s the latest broadcast info for the Wolves-Nuggets series: <\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Saturday, 4\/18: 2:30 p.m. \u2014 Amazon PrimeGame 2: Monday, 4\/20: 9:30 p.m. \u2014 NBCGame 3: Thursday, 4\/23: 8:30 p.m. \u2014 Amazon PrimeGame 4: Saturday, 4\/25: 7:30 p.m. \u2014 ABCGame 5: Monday, 4\/27Game 6: Thursday, 4\/30Game 7: Saturday, 5\/2 <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"74\">Regional sports networks, a la FanDuel Sports Network, have historically been allowed to broadcast the first round of the NBA playoffs, and without the alternative channel, a technical difficulty like Prime experienced Tuesday night leaves everyone in the dark. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"77\">That said, the Timberwolves played a bunch of games on Prime during the regular season, and none of them were disrupted by technical issues. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7a\">In the meantime, Prime says the cause of the outage is under investigation. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA fans no longer have a backup viewing option when things go wrong, and that became a problem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-608843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608843","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=608843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}