Former NBA All-Star Wally Szczerbiak Reduced To “Random Dude” In TV Mishap

(By Glenn Davis, SportsGrid) - Mistakes happen in every walk of life – some are just more visible than others. Like anything that happens on TV, for example. Any onscreen graphic is especially susceptible to such an embarrassing error – you can’t make a typo verbally, after all. What you 'can' do, however, is put in placeholder text to be changed before the broadcast…and then never get around to changing it.

This, it appears, happened a few days ago when former NBA player Wally Szczerbiak stopped by CBS College Sports to do some studio analysis. Szczerbiak, as is plainly evident, has a difficult-to-spell name. The Dagger’s Jeff Eisenberg and Awful Announcing’s Mike Vitiello surmise, and we’d agree, that whoever was responsible for the graphic meant to bear Szczerbiak’s name was unfamiliar with the spelling, and that led to: