The old and the new of Hollywood have been colliding in the Knicks-Pacers series as movie fans rejoiced over the images of Ben Stiller and Timothée Chalamet sitting courtside together.
“We met each other over the years a few times and I’m a fan of his, he’s a great actor, always seemed like a nice guy,” Stiller said, via Sports New York). “Saw him at some Knicks games and then we were at the Detroit series and were both looking to go to Detroit, so we decided to go together and got to know each other.
“Genuine Knicks fan through and through. New Yorker, New York kid, and has a true appreciation of the game and no trouble calling out the refs during a game, too.”
While sitting courtside in Indiana, Stiller and Chalamet, along with Spike Lee, were the subject of a WWE-style roasting by Pat McAfee:
“We got some bigwigs from the big city in the building. Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timothée Chalamet is here. Let’s send these sons of bitches back to New York with their ears ringing,” McAfee said to pump up the crowd during the fourth quarter of Game 4.
Stiller thought it was hilarious.
“I have to say, I was not familiar with his game. I did not know that was coming,” Stiller said.
“I did know that Timothée has been on his show and I was like ‘Oh, that’s your boy, that’s your guy,’ so then when that happened I was a little bit like ‘Whoa, okay.’ But the WWE aspect, I get it. It’s just not the way it happens in New York.
“He should come to the Garden for Game 5. They’ll put him up on the screen and they’ll show him punting the ball, and everybody will give him a nice cheer. That’s how we do it in New York.
“But I get it. It was fun. I feel like he was just trying to get the crowd riled up. It was a little bit out of the blue… it just seems a little cartoonish, but then again it goes with the WWE.”
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