Lights go out during second quarter of Nuggets-Wizards (Video)

While the Nuggets-Wizards game was still going on, the lights went out and the player-intro lighting started

The Denver Nuggets and Washington Wizards were knotted late in the second quarter of what had been an exciting back-and-forth affair inside the Pepsi Center on Saturday night. However, whoever was running the lighting in Denver must have either gotten bored or distracted because they definitely dropped the ball in a major way.

With under a minute remaining in the second quarter—mind you, the quarter definitely was not over just yet—the Nuggets were looking to break the 50-50 tie and go into the locker room up by a possession for halftime. However, the person controlling the lights somehow made the arena go dark before the colored spotlights used in player intros came on. Once again, this all happened while the game was still supposed to be going on:

Someone may or may not be getting a pink slip in the near future. You have one job as the lighting guy during the game and that is to make sure that the lights stay on. This person in Denver did not do that job on Saturday night.

Once the lights came back on, though, the Nuggets were in fact able to get the bucket that they were looking for and go into halftime up on the Wizards by two points. So maybe it wasn’t a mistake at all and just a bit of home-cooking in Denver to throw off the Wizards.

I guess we’ll chalk this up to being one of life’s great mysteries.