Pulling fans out of the crowd at basketball games to take part in games at half time or during timeouts is an age old basketball tradition.

The Houston Rockets, however, had not prepared for this.

Pulling out two Rockets fans for a friendly game of tic tac toe – they would have to make a lay up before running to centre court and placing their piece – except neither seemed to understand the basic premise that to win you needed to get three in a row.

Both players missed easy and obvious opportunities to win the game, with the crowd roaring as it ended in a tie.

Unbelievable.