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The debut of “Sunday Night Basketball” on NBC just felt big, from Mike Tirico to Caitlin Clark to Reggie Miller to Luka Doncic to LeBron James to Spike Lee to “Roundball Rock.” This didn’t feel like game No. 50 of the regular season — it felt like opening night. Getting Lakers-Knicks at MSG was great scheduling by the league and NBC, especially on a night with little to no competition on the sports side outside an NHL Stadium Series game on ESPN. Lakers-Knicks won’t beat the Grammys, but it had the same big-time feel. Sources are telling me that we’ll be getting an announcement on the Mountain West’s new TV deal on Tuesday. It wouldn’t surprise me if The CW and CBS are partners with the conference, as well as another partner or two.
Comedian Druski and adult content creator Sky Bri stirred buzz online after attending the Knicks-Lakers game together in New York on Sunday. The pair were all smiles sitting next to diehard Knicks fan, Spike Lee, on celebrity row at Madison Square Garden. Druski, born Drew Desbordes, and Bri were seen getting out of a dark SUV together as they entered the world’s most famous arena.
Spike Lee will always pull up and support his Knicks 🧡 pic.twitter.com/JILJgybLQI
— NBA on Prime (@NBAonPrime) December 13, 2025
Isaiah Thomas: I remember early on in my career, I played for the Kings and we played in Madison Square Garden and they booed me because of my name. They didn't like the older Isiah Thomas. So, every time I touch the ball, especially my first time, I was like, ‘Why are they booing me?!’ I was like, ‘what did I do?’ And then I go to the bench, they say, "Oh, they booing you cuz your name." I'm like, "Ah, I get it." … I remember walking by Spike Lee and he's like, "You know, we got to do it to you. It's just your name. It's all good."
Pope Leo XIV welcomed actors and filmmakers from across the globe to discuss the intersection of art and faith at the Vatican on Saturday, and Oscar winner Spike Lee came prepared. The new pope seems to be a Chicago sports fan (at least for the White Sox), but Lee made sure to honor his beloved New York Knicks by gifting Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey. Lee is one of the great ambassador for New York sports teams, so it makes perfect sense that he would bring such a customized gift with him to greet the new pope. However, we have a feeling Pope Leo won't break out this jersey when the Chicago Bulls play the Knicks this season.
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No Liberty player has had a closer seat to the dramatic transformation of the organization than Sabrina Ionescu. Last September, in Game 2 of the Liberty’s first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Dream in Brooklyn, Ionescu was walking to the sideline to inbound the ball. She felt a hand reach out to her for a high five. It was Spike Lee. “I felt like New York was injected into my veins,” Ionescu said in a press conference following the game. The Academy Award–winning filmmaker returned for Game 5 of the Finals and has been to multiple games this season.
Spike Lee’s love of the Knicks knows no bounds! As the team hovered on the brink of elimination on Thursday, the two-time Oscar-winning director said he would trade one of his statues in exchange for a title. “I would give up an Academy Award, Oscar, for the Knicks to win a championship,” Lee, 68, told Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson, analysts Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley, and TNT game analyst Reggie Miller before the game’s tip. He continued, “I got two already, but I’d give up—“
Lee went on to explain his allegiance to the team by showing off his more wearable form of hardware. “Look at this,” Lee said, and then showed the pendant around his neck. “This is [Knicks coach] Red Holzman’s ring. This is May 8, 1970, I was in the Garden for Willis Reed’s game. This is the first championship ring.”
Alex Golden: Pat McAfee hypes the crowd up: “Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timothee Chalamet is here. Let’s send these SOBs back to New York.”
Pat McAfee hypes the crowd up:
— Alex Golden (@AlexGoldenNBA) May 28, 2025
“Spike Lee is here. Ben Stiller is here. Timothee Chalamet is here. Let’s send these SOBs back to New York.” pic.twitter.com/2nZbsl6aIm
Pat McAfee, who also appears as a commentator on WWE’s “Monday Night Raw,” channeled his inner wrestling heel as he chided the likes of Spike Lee, Ben Stiller and Timothée Chalamet. “Indianapolis, Indiana, we’ve got some bigwigs from the big city in the building,” McAfee started off saying. “Spike Lee is here,” he said as the crowd booed. “Ben Stiller is here,” he continued eliciting more boos. “Timothée Chalamet is here. Let’s send these sons of bitches back to New York with their ears ringing. Let’s turn this s–t up!”
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He was there postgame, pointing at Tyrese Haliburton after the brash young guard paid tribute to him by reenacting Miller's famous choke gesture at the end of Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference finals, when he scored 25 of his game-high 39 points in the fourth quarter and engaged in the legendary back-and-forth with Spike Lee that spawned a 30 for 30, "Winning Time," in 2010. Haliburton said he's watched that documentary "probably 50 times" growing up and had been waiting -- over the course of two separate playoff series -- for the right moment to reenact Miller's "choke" gesture in front of the MSG crowd. "That's just a historic moment," Haliburton said after the game. "Obviously him versus Spike, kind of the one-on-one. I felt like [my gesture] was kind of to everybody. But to [Miller], too. I wanted him to see it more than anything."
The first issue, the one curated by Mr. Wade, is dedicated to basketball and features 10 different cover models — among them, Cameron Brink, Jalen Green, Spike Lee, Jordan Clarkson, Giorgio Armani and Mr. Wade himself, all in fashion labels like Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Fear of God, photographed by names like Mario Sorrenti, Quil Lemons and Nick Knight.
What stands out most in Gordon’s already one-of-a-kind warehouse gym home are the celebrity icons from different genres. Many are no longer with us. Gordon chose each specifically for daily motivation. A young Obama smoking marijuana. Einstein. Athletes including Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Tony Hawk, Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Pele, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Jackie Robinson. Dancer Josephine Baker. Actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Musicians Billie Holliday, Prince, Lauryn Hill, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendrix, B.B. King, Notorious B.I.G., Nipsey Hussle, Michael Jackson and Mac Miller. Olympic activists John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Comedian Richard Pryor. Actor Heath Ledger. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X. Filmmaker Spike Lee. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Antiapartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Legendary sports journalist Stuart Scott. Poet Maya Angelou. “I got everybody there from Muhammad Ali to Bruce Lee,” Aaron Gordon said. “You have greatness looking at you. You can’t be [joking around]. It makes you want to not bulls—.”
Carmelo Anthony on Trae Young: Trae is a New York villain. Spike Lee: He's a villain, for the New York fans he's a villain, and he plays into that. Carmelo Anthony: He embraces it. Spike Lee: What about that game?! When he rolled the dice on the Knicks logo. And nobody did nothing! (…) Knicks said ‘we didn't see him do that’… I don't believe that. Carmelo Anthony: I’ll tell you who's saying it, ESPN that's a fact that sh*t was headlined for about two weeks after that. Spike Lee: That would have not happened with some other Knicks teams. Xavier McDaniel? Charles Oakley? On the logo! On the court! Nobody did nothing. Carmelo Anthony: That's like the flag, that's our flag. So you stomping on our flag, you rolling on our flag, you don't come pounce on our flag. That's disrespect.