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Mike Breen Reading Terrible Men in Black Promos During the 2019 NBA Finals

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During the 2019 NBA Finals, the broadcasts on ABC were sponsored by the film "Men In Black: International", which was coming out that summer. And as a result, play-by-play announcer Mike Breen was forced to read a horrible, stilted ad copy for the film at the first dead ball of every Finals game - which always preceded an actual commercial for the film. The ad copy was so terrible that it eventually inspired a viral tweet by Ethan Booker (https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/1139370381435912192), which went as follows:

DORIS BURKE: Mike, we’re hearing reports from the locker room that Klay Thompson has exploded
MIKE BREEN: thanks Doris. that injury update brought to you by Men In Black International
MARK JACKSON: you cannot do that, Mike. you cannot explode. foolish decision by Klay Thompson.

And so, I decided to make a compilation of all the times that Breen had to plug the new Men in Black film in the middle of an NBA Finals game. What's funny is that when you listen to his voice, you can hear him getting less and less into reading them with each passing game, and that by the time the series reached Game 6, he had zero enthusiasm for reading this script anymore: "Could an NBA player be out of this world? Seems like something the Men in Black should investigate."

Mike Breen Reading Terrible Men in Black Promos During the 2019 NBA Finals

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