Marriage proposals gone wrong (VIDEO) Proposal Prank by Washington Wizards Game Operations. Having your marriage proposal cruelly rejected would be bad. Having it cruelly rejected at a live basketball game in front of tens of thousands of people would be even worse.

But that is what happened during a Washington Wizards game. The apparent proposal came at the end of a halftime contest on the Wizards home court.

As the crowd yelled "hot" and "cold," the woman roamed the court for about 10 seconds.

Then, as she located the bank mascot, she was told she had won the contest.

But, the public address announcer said there was a surprise. A man appeared from under the costume, grabbed a microphone and then got down on one knee.

As he began to speak to the woman, she paused and grabbed her face in shock.

Then, as the crowd expected the man to pop question, the woman turned away from the man, and sprinted full speed across the basketball court.

If that wasn't bad enough, this guy had to sit through a Wizard's game.

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