ESPN’s Michael Eaves found a way to tie together the two biggest stories of the night—the Raptors-Sixers Game 7 and Game of Thrones—at the top of Sunday’s 11 p.m. ET SportsCenter, but not everyone was happy about it.
While reading the highlights of the Raptors game Eaves made an analogy to the night’s GoT episode, which was still an hour away from airing on the West Coast. The problem was that Eaves’s joke specifically referenced a character’s highly controversial death. Viewers out west, or who hadn’t watched for other reasons, got caught totally off-guard by the spoiler and were raving mad at Eaves.