Mystery Buzzer Chaos Halts Cavaliers-Pistons Game for 12 Unforgettable Minutes

Every now and then, you catch a moment in sports that’s just weirdly unforgettable — and Friday night at Little Caesars Arena served up exactly that. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons, two of the Eastern Conference’s best battling it out, suddenly found their high-stakes game put on ice — not by the players, but by a relentless horn blaring nonstop for over a dozen minutes. Yeah, you read that right. The chaos kicked off just as Donovan Mitchell was chatting live on ESPN, and soon enough, the entire arena was caught in this bizarre audio glitch. It had fans trying to keep their cool and the teams improvising just to stay in rhythm while workers scrambled to shut the nuisance down. When silence finally returned, the crowd’s cheer said it all — relief mixed with a pinch of disbelief. Only in basketball, huh? And if you wanna dive deeper into that night’s madness, LEARN MORE.

A game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons needed a buzzer-beater in the third quarter Friday.

A clash of two of the top teams in the East was put on hold when the horn at Little Caesars Arena sounded continuously for more than 12 minutes. The fun began when play was stopped with 7:24 left in the quarter, during an ESPN on-air interview with Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell.

Mitchell soon asked, “Y’all hear the horn?” The answer was yes, everyone could hear the horn.

The next several minutes saw arena workers desperately trying to cut the noise, while some fans in the stands simply tried to stay sane. The break in play was long enough the two teams returned to the court and began shooting to stay warm, all while dealing with the noise.

The effort to silence the horn was eventually successful, triggering a roar of approval from the crowd.

It wasn’t all fixed, though. With the horn not operational, the scorer’s table resorted to temporarily using a manual air horn to signal time.

This article will be updated with more information.