New York Knicks point guard Tyler Kolek raises suspicion Taylor SwiftHis commitment to the team five months after reaching the 2026 NBA Finals.
“I would say the Knicks games are very high-performance,” Kolek, 25, said during the NBA 2K TikTok livestream on Thursday, Nov. 5, when asked about the basketball team’s “fakest celebrity fan.”
He continued, before singling out the pop star: “Because they just want to be seen at the game. They don’t have to be fans.”
“Maybe Taylor Swift,” he said. “I don’t know if I’ve seen him in another game.”
A spokesperson for the Knicks said: We “Taylor Swift has been a Knicks fan for many years, has a long history at Madison Square Garden, and we are incredibly grateful for her support of the organization,” he said in a statement.
Even though he was Kolek’s teammate Deuce McBride He stated that he agreed with the assessment and stated that his answer “Swifties will not like it very much.”
“I’m going to get some hate from Swifties,” Kolek added. “I guess he has a lot of work to do, so he can’t come all the time. But it’s a bit performance-oriented.”
McBride, 26, then praised the Knicks’ biggest celebrity fans. Ben Stiller And Tracy Morgan.
“Everyone else is generally solid,” he said.
Swift, 36, attended Game 4 of the NBA Finals, played between the Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden in New York City in June. Travis Kelce weeks later. The “Patient Zero” singer, who owns multiple properties in NYC, wore a skimpy “Stevie Knicks” t-shirt for the game, while close friends Alana and Este Haim joined her in “Knickelback” and “Knickole Kidman” t-shirts, respectively.
Swift previously attended one of the Knicks’ Eastern Conference Finals games against the Cleveland Cavaliers with Kelce, 37, in May.
The day after the game between the Knicks and Spurs, Swift attended the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony, where she joked that she had lost her voice from the cheering.
“When I got home I said, ‘You’ve got to stop screaming, you’re screaming too much, you’re screaming instead of talking, you’re too excited,'” he recalled in his speech, adding that he screamed for “100 percent” of the historic match.
“Then I witnessed the amazing performances that I saw tonight and I just kept screaming and I never stopped screaming and that’s what you get,” Swift said. Shadow, Brandi Carlile, Billy Corgan, SistaStrings And Johnny Rzeznik. “I don’t apologize for that; I had a lot of fun.”
Swift’s attendance at the Knicks game sparked controversy in the sports world, with others questioning her motives for being at MSG that evening. Knicks radio analyst Monica McNutt He threw shade at the Grammy winner by telling her to “get out of here,” which quickly sparked backlash. team captain Jalen Brunson he later asked Swifties to cut McNutt “some slack.”
Knicks’ point guard José AlvaradoOn the other hand, he wants to see Swift on the sidelines more.
“This is a larger-than-life superstar and I was happy he was cheering for us,” he said exclusively We In June. “And [she] He looked like he was having a good time and we won, so it’s even better. He should come more often.”