A prescient State Farm ad with Kenny Mayne had everyone fooled during ‘The Last Dance’

Everyone’s buzzing about the premiere of The Last Dance, the ESPN documentary focusing on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, and with good reason. We got so many good moments, from a wild story from 1984 to “former Chicago resident” Barack Obama.

But there was also a bizarre commercial that had viewers tweeting like crazy: a State Farm spot that took an old school SportsCenter clip with a seemingly “Deepfake” version of Kenny Mayne (I’m guessing the real Mayne dubbed some new audio) “predicting” the future, that ESPN will eventually make The Last Dance in 2020.

Check this out. It’s a really good ad:

🏀 @Kenny_Mayne had a hunch. #TheLastDance premieres Sunday, April 19 at 9:00 PM ET on ESPN. @StateFarm pic.twitter.com/9w7Kwzd20c

— NBA (@NBA) April 18, 2020

Here’s some of the reaction:

Kenny Mayne had me going for a SECOND, fam.
State Farm Commercial. pic.twitter.com/UCCcWcyRu2

— 3030 (@jose3030) April 20, 2020

That Kenny Mayne clip was hilarious. They had me going at first #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/RqeQ89dDB5

— Timmer (@TimShay17) April 20, 2020

Watching Kenny Mayne and Linda Cohn do ……. that. #TheLastDance pic.twitter.com/4VYF7GSTvD

— Bryan Fonseca (@BryanFonsecaNY) April 20, 2020

That Kenny Mayne commercial just made stop dead in my tracks #TheLastDance

— Tommy Smokes (@TomScibelli) April 20, 2020

Loving this documentary already. But that Kenny Mayne commercial was the best thing I’ve seen so far.

— Rob Carlin (@RobCarlinNBCS) April 20, 2020

—@Kenny_Mayne the legend! https://t.co/OZGeSejTSH

— 🏁 Jamal Crawford (@JCrossover) April 20, 2020

Did it take anyone else longer than it should have to realize that Kenny Mayne State Farm commercial was indeed a commercial? Asking for a friend

— Charlie Sokaitis (@CharlieSokaitis) April 20, 2020