Oops! Miami Herald runs ad congratulating Heat for winning NBA Finals
Editors must’ve been so distracted by LeBron James’s lousy fourth-quarter performances that they missed the nearly full-page Macy’s advertisement.
Looks like someone forgot to yell, “Stop the presses!”
The Miami Herald is apologizing for running a nearly full-page Macy’s ad on Monday that congratulates the Heat for winning the NBA title, alongside pictures of hats and T-shirts proclaiming the Heat 2011 NBA champions.
The problem, of course, is that the underdog Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in six games.
The paper has apologized for the blunder, which it called a “production error.”
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