Jon Scheyer’s Practical Joke Blows Up His Friend’s Phone

On Tuesday, in the afterglow of Duke’s title victory, we wrote about how Jon Scheyer apparently tweeted his phone number so fans could get in touch with him.↵

↵↵As it turns out, that phone number wasn’t Scheyer’s. The Chicago Tribune has the details on a well-executed practical joke.↵

↵↵⇥ Scheyer played a prank on high school teammate Zach Kelly by tweeting Kelly’s cell phone number to his more than 6,700 followers, who assumed it was Scheyer’s number.↵⇥↵⇥As of Wednesday, Kelly had received more than 2,000 text messages and several hundred calls. Scheyer’s latest tweet begs his fans to stop texting and calling his friend.↵⇥

↵↵↵Hopefully part of Scheyer’s first professional check goes to covering this poor guy’s cell phone bill this month. Here’s hoping Kelly has unlimited text messaging.↵

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