A Houston television station was reporting on the Troy Daniels trade, but they had a bit of a mishap by throwing a video game screenshot on the screen.
Video game graphics are better than ever these days. The next-gen graphics even appear to be life-like and that ended up fooling a Houston television station as they reported on the Troy Daniels trade.
On Friday, Daniels was traded from the Houston Rockets to the Minnesota Timerwolves in exchange for Corey Brewer.
This is what it looked like:
Did @MyFoxHouston just use a pic from a video game for ex @HoustonRockets player Troy Daniels? Wow! pic.twitter.com/l7LTKmCXnN
— J Ceynar (@Jpceynar) December 20, 2014
Whoops. In case you were wondering, this is the real Troy Daniels.

Hey, at least the resemblance was there.
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