Rick Pitino Gets Blasted With Hundreds Of Texts After Accidentally Leaking His Number On National TV

This is rough, but at least Rick was a good sport about it.

St. John’s men’s basketball head coach Rick Pitino was present for Sunday’s NBA playoff game between the New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden, and though it sounds like it was a fun game to attend, it left Pitino in a bit of a mess.

While the game was paused, Pitino was featured on a compilation of celebrities in attendance that ABC aired on their national broadcast, showing stars such as Ben Stiller, Jon Stewart and Tracy Morgan. When the camera got on Pitino, the former head coach of the New York Knicks was seen giving his phone number to somebody.

The stars are out at MSG ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/DyGz2iSQi7

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 23, 2023

Well, fans on social media caught on to this quickly by reading Pitino’s lips, and flooded his phone with messages, according to the coach himself.

So yesterday I was enjoying the Knicks game n someone read my lips on TV giving out my phone number. Over 300 plus messages came in – here’s the bizarre news, 95% were nice n positive. I got a lead on 7 new recruits. My new cell is…..😜

— Rick Pitino (@RealPitino) April 24, 2023

How can you read that tweet and not like Rick Pitino?

My man didn’t just bring up the fact that he was flooded with messages, he didn’t just bring up that they were “95% nice n positive,” but he brought up how he “got a lead on 7 new recruits.” Because of course (not giving a single flip about his past scandals), Rick Pitino brings up recruiting. (RELATED: Atlanta Hawks’ Dejounte Murray Bumps Into Referee After Game 4 Loss To Boston Celtics)

You gotta love this guy.