{"id":694179,"date":"2026-04-02T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:19:16","slug":"what-did-washington-wizards-fan-who-got-pranked-actually-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694179\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did Washington Wizards Fan Who Got Pranked Actually win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/washington-wizards-blindfolded-fan-prank.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Wizards prank a blindfolded fan\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24000324\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\u00a9 Geoff Burke-Imagn Images\/iStockphoto\/AndreyPopov<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Wizards are the worst team in the NBA, but they at least still have a sense of humor. With only 17 wins (and 59 losses) this season, the Wizards haven\u2019t let last place get them down as they busted out an all-time prank on April 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Luring a fan to half-court and putting a blindfold on them under the guise the fan would win $10,000 if they made the shot, they had the fan going nuts thinking they\u2019d actually won.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Wizards Pranks Fan Into Thinking They Had Won $10,000 For Blindfold Shot<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the real prank here is convincing any fans to show up to a <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/washington-wizards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wizards<\/a> game. They have won just 11 games this entire season at home and are 1-9 in their last 10 games. The Wizards\u2019 opponents are averaging nearly 12 points per game more than Washington is this season (112.7 vs 124.3), so getting fans to show up for games is, in fact, a cruel prank.<\/p>\n<p>As yesterday was April 1st, aka April Fool\u2019s Day, the Wizards hosted the 76ers and broke out this prank for the special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>After blindfolding the fan, they displayed messages to everyone in the stands the blindfolded fan could not see. Then after the fan threw the shot all of the mascots and entertainment crew on the court erupted into controlled chaos all designed to trick the fan into believing they had just drained the blindfolded half-course shot and won $10,000. All things considered, it is pretty hilarious:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the fan missed the shot and did not win $10,000 they did not go home empty handed. The Wizards fan received an autographed jersey and courtside seats to a game next season. Not too shabby of a prize for a missed shot.<\/p>\n<p>This video blew up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/nba\/comments\/1sa5p9a\/highlight_the_wizards_played_an_april_fools_prank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">r\/NBA subreddit<\/a> as one of the most popular posts of the week. The top comment is perfect, they wrote \u201cImagine thinking you won 10k then getting wizards tickets \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 I\u2019d be sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When put that way, I get it. Is it really a \u2018prize\u2019 if you are being forced to watch the worst team in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBA<\/a>? Let me know what you think in the Facebook comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Geoff Burke-Imagn Images\/iStockphoto\/AndreyPopov The Washington Wizards are the worst team in the NBA, but they at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[87479,87480,7,6,87481,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-694179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-april-fools","9":"tag-april-fools-day-pranks","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-pranks","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-wizards","15":"tag-washingtonwizards","16":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116336025001516722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}