The Charlotte Hornets have apologized for appearing to gift a PlayStation 5 to a child during an on-court skit, only to later take it back from him off camera.

A young Charlotte Hornets fan thought he was receiving a Christmas wish when he was gifted a coveted PlayStation 5 in front of a raucous crowd during Monday night's game, but was crushed when the team took the video game console away from him backstage moments later.

The incident has created a lot of waves of social media, as it was captured in a post on X that now has over 4.5 million views.

The Charlotte Hornets are under fire this week for their scummy actions with a young die-hard fan. After giving away a PlayStation 5 to one lucky kid during a halftime event, the team allegedly took back the prize off-camera and left the kid with nothing but a jersey.

During a Charlotte Hornets game, a young basketball fan was gifted a PlayStation 5. Seconds later, off camera, a team employee took the PlayStation back and gave the 13-year-old a team jersey in its place.

I get that the new console generation is expensive, but this feels excessive. At a recent home game, the Charlotte Hornets hosted a "special segment" in which a few children selected from the audience received various goodies including a signed jersey and a PS5,

Talk about an intentional foul. A young Charlotte Hornets fan thought he was receiving a Christmas wish when he was gifted a coveted PlayStation 5 in front of a raucous crowd during Monday night's game, but he was crushed when the team took the video game console away from him backstage moments later.

The Charlotte Hornets NBA team performed an ill-received half time skit in its game against the Philadelphia 76ers this week, when it pretended to give a child a PlayStation 5 before taking it away when the cameras stopped rolling.