A hilarious slip of the tongue saw Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd accidentally announced as a pick during this week’s NBA Draft.
With the 11th pick on Wednesday night, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Cedric Coward from Washington State.
But as cameras cut to the 21-year-old celebrating with his loved ones, ESPN anchor Malika Andrews announced that Portland had picked ‘Colin Cowherd’.
‘This is a young man with the ultimate bet-on-yourself story,’ Andrews continued. Alas, Colin Cowherd is a 61-year-old sportscaster with Fox Sports who hosts ‘The Herd’.
He made light of ESPN’s error on social media. ‘Apparently, I made a hell of an impact in Portland,’ Cowherd wrote.
He then used AI to create a picture of him wearing a Blazers jersey. ‘Nothing against Memphis but this would have been epic,’ Cowherd wrote alongside the image.
A slip of the tongue saw Colin Cowherd accidentally announced as a pick during the NBA Draft
Coward, meanwhile, ended up with the Grizzlies after Portland agreed to send his rights to Memphis on Wednesday night.
The Grizzlies received Coward in exchange for Yang Hansen (the No 16 overall pick) as well as two second-round picks (2027 and 2028) and a 2028 first-round pick.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, ESPN star Scott Van Pelt bemoaned the trend of newly-selected players wearing the wrong team’s hat.
It’s a problem that comes with teams trading their picks and prospects, and results in players getting a photo with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver while wearing the hat of a team they will not play for.
It happened a few times on Wednesday night, including with 10th overall pick Khaman Maluach, who was visibly crying while wearing a Houston Rockets hat.
Maluach is headed to the Phoenix Suns, after the team acquired the pick in the blockbuster Kevin Durant trade.
‘I’m gonna scream about the hat situation,’ Van Pelt said on ESPN’s airwaves during the ‘SportsCenter’ broadcast that immediately followed the first round.
