{"id":3189,"date":"2026-06-08T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:04:55","slug":"trump-heads-to-nba-finals-as-many-fans-prepare-to-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3189","title":{"rendered":"Trump heads to NBA Finals as many fans prepare to boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He would become the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game. Some Knicks fans say the president is not welcome at Madison Square Garden.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3185\">ICE furor amplifies centrist-liberal divide in Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3187\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/67c87cc8a50967c038f633df2c1ab4b5-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>President Donald Trump will return to Madison Square Garden on Monday night. He last visited the arena for a rally in the closing days of his 2024 presidential campaign. (Alex Brandon\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>President Donald Trump is used to cheers at his highly curated rallies and events. But on Monday night he\u2019s widely expected to be showered with boos when he becomes the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he will watch Game 3 of the best-of-seven series between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs as the guest of Knicks owner James Dolan. Some sports fans and analysts have urged Trump not to attend the game \u2014 commentator Stephen A. Smith said it would create an unnecessary spectacle \u2014 or pledged to jeer the president.<\/p>\n<p>Online betting services also predict Trump will be booed in his visit to deep-blue New York City and the Knicks\u2019 arena, Madison Square Garden. The team\u2019s fans are famously unforgiving \u2014 quick to taunt rival players, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/jalen-brunson-karl-anthony-towns-respond-to-boos-at-msg-reportedly-hold-players-only-meeting-id-be-booing-us-too-031512118.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/breaking-news\/article\/jalen-brunson-karl-anthony-towns-respond-to-boos-at-msg-reportedly-hold-players-only-meeting-id-be-booing-us-too-031512118.html\">the team\u2019s own stars<\/a> and recent New York  mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/01\/17\/knicks-fans-react-to-nyc-mayor-adams-at-madison-square-garden-following-mlk-jr-speech\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/01\/17\/knicks-fans-react-to-nyc-mayor-adams-at-madison-square-garden-following-mlk-jr-speech\/\">just days<\/a> after his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>As an added frustration, Trump\u2019s presence will create logistical hurdles for the roughly 20,000 other attendees, who have been <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyknicks\/status\/2063392493228511581\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nyknicks\/status\/2063392493228511581\">told to arrive<\/a> at least two hours before tip-off because of the enhanced security measures that follow the president. City officials have also said there will be no watch parties outside the arena for the thousands of fans who can\u2019t get inside, breaking with recent practice.<\/p>\n<p>The White House declined to comment on some fans\u2019 frustrations and whether Trump was prepared to be booed. Olivia Wales, a spokeswoman, said Trump was a \u201clifelong fan\u201d who wanted to watch the Knicks compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is the greatest champion for sports of any president in American history,\u201d Wales said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The tickets to this week\u2019s two NBA Finals games in New York are among the most expensive in modern sports history, as the city\u2019s celebrities and wealthy residents help drive up the price. Some courtside seats have been <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/tickets-knicks-nba-finals-game-153219134.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/tickets-knicks-nba-finals-game-153219134.html\">auctioned off<\/a> for several hundred thousand dollars apiece; even seats in the building\u2019s rafters, with obstructed views, are selling for more than $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The pricey entrance cost may change the complexion of the crowd, said Dan Pfeiffer, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and a longtime NBA fan.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201ctypical Madison Square Garden crowd would boo the daylights out of Trump, but he might benefit from a crowd willing to spend $10,000 to sit in the rafters,\u201d Pfeiffer told The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, a longtime New Yorker, has said he\u2019s excited to take in the game, as the Knicks seek their first NBA championship in 53 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a Knicks fan for a long time,\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office last week, subsequently offering thoughts on Spurs star Victor Wembanyama  (\u201cHow do you guard this guy, he\u2019s seven foot five?\u201d) and the Knicks\u2019 best players (\u201c[Jalen] Brunson is fantastic. [Karl-Anthony] Towns is fantastic.\u201d) in conversations with reporters.<\/p>\n<p>It is less clear whether the Knicks and Spurs players are fans of Trump. Just 10 percent of NBA players are registered Republicans, while 43 percent are Democrats and 46 percent are independent, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/votehub.com\/2026\/01\/20\/the-political-lean-of-pro-sports\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/votehub.com\/2026\/01\/20\/the-political-lean-of-pro-sports\/\">analysis<\/a> of publicly accessible voter registration data, and many of the league\u2019s stars have panned Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s allies cheer the president\u2019s plan to venture into a city where he received only 30 percent of the vote in his 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGame-day Trump is hard not to like, and it\u2019s a venue that suits him well,\u201d said Harrison Fields, who served as White House principal deputy press secretary last year. \u201cNew York City and an NBA audience might be considered hostile territory, but when has that ever stopped the president?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has also said he is \u201cthrilled\u201d that Trump will attend the game. But some of the sport\u2019s loudest voices have said they wish he was going anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Shea Serrano, a popular sportswriter and Spurs fan, urged New Yorkers to boo Trump so loudly \u201cthat my TV vibrates off the wall,\u201d he wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheaSerrano\/status\/2063052742839447561\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheaSerrano\/status\/2063052742839447561\">widely shared post<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis decision to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals will do for the game what his participation in seemingly everything does: make it actively worse, in one way or another, for everyone else involved,\u201d Serrano wrote in an email to The Washington Post.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3182\">Months after the Minnesota ICE surge, the backlash is driving a Senate primary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No modern president has intermingled sports and politics as Trump has in his second term.<\/p>\n<p>As the nation\u2019s most powerful politician, he has sought to broker peace between rival professional golf leagues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-college-sports-order\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/03\/trump-college-sports-order\/\">issued<\/a> several executive orders attempting to \u201cfix\u201d college sports and announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/05\/14\/trump-administration-releases-new-design-east-potomac-golf-course\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/05\/14\/trump-administration-releases-new-design-east-potomac-golf-course\/\">renovate<\/a> several Washington-area golf courses.<\/p>\n<p>Other moves have come in his capacity as a fan. Trump has become the first president to attend the Super Bowl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/02\/16\/trump-nascar-daytona-500\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/02\/16\/trump-nascar-daytona-500\/\">take the presidential limousine on a pace lap<\/a> at the Daytona 500 and schedule a UFC fight on the White House grounds, with that event slated for Sunday. He also attended the final rounds of two golf tournaments hosted at Trump-owned courses this year.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump has put himself in front of crowds of sports fans, they usually cheer him. Fans of auto racing, golf and football skew Republican, while basketball fans are more liberal, according to a series of surveys conducted by The Washington Post and the University of Maryland across 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>And while some of the most prominent football players, race car drivers and golfers are public Trump supporters, many of the NBA\u2019s stars, such as LeBron James, have criticized Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n<p>Basketball also has been closely linked with Obama, Trump\u2019s predecessor,  who hosted NBA players for games at the White House and issued predictions for the NCAA college basketball tournament each year. When Obama attended a 2019 NBA Finals game in Toronto, the former president received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/06\/03\/barack-obama-gets-mvp-chants-standing-ovation-toronto-game-nba-finals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/06\/03\/barack-obama-gets-mvp-chants-standing-ovation-toronto-game-nba-finals\/\">sustained cheers and a standing ovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks fans have warned Trump to expect a hostile reception on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump Is Not Welcome At MSG\u201d read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NYKnicks\/comments\/1tp2rzq\/trump_is_not_welcome_at_msg\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NYKnicks\/comments\/1tp2rzq\/trump_is_not_welcome_at_msg\/\">one post<\/a> on Reddit, as hundreds of users mocked him and speculated on how badly he would be booed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Knicks\u2019 celebrity fans expected to attend the game \u2014 including actors Ben Stiller and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and director Spike Lee \u2014 have previously criticized Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Chalamet, Stiller and Lee did not respond to questions about whether they would welcome Trump\u2019s presence at Monday night\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks fans have warmly received other politicians. New York  Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is also expected to attend Monday night\u2019s game, has been embraced by some fans for his <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/zohran-mamdani-viral-moment-ny-163023405.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/zohran-mamdani-viral-moment-ny-163023405.html\">willingness<\/a> to join them in the rafters.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/donald-trump-really-knicks-fan-211904372.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/donald-trump-really-knicks-fan-211904372.html\">long history<\/a> of attending Knicks games, frequently flanked by celebrities such as John F. Kennedy Jr., radio personality Howard Stern and New York Mets outfielder  Darryl Strawberry, although he does not appear to have watched the team in person since launching his presidential run a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent visit to Madison Square Garden came in the waning days of his 2024 presidential campaign, hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/27\/trump-msg-rally-puerto-ricans\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/27\/trump-msg-rally-puerto-ricans\/\">rally<\/a> that prompted days of fallout and rebukes, particularly over one comedian\u2019s insults of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3188\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5da44787419005b607328833825d6673-2048x1362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Trump spoke at a rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27, 2024, late in that year&#8217;s presidential campaign. (Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Monday the presidents will arrive in a city that has become a cauldron of Knicks fever, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/the-wall-street-mania-pushing-knicks-tickets-to-176-000-fd07dacc\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/the-wall-street-mania-pushing-knicks-tickets-to-176-000-fd07dacc\">Wall Street<\/a> brokers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/05\/rikers-island-nba-finals-new-york-knicks-photos\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/05\/rikers-island-nba-finals-new-york-knicks-photos\">prisoners at Rikers Island<\/a> and generations of diehard fans all clamoring for the team to win.<\/p>\n<p>Even Elmo from \u201cSesame Street\u201d \u2014 the longtime children\u2019s TV show that is set in a fictional corner of Manhattan \u2014 suffered days of backlash after wishing \u201cboth teams\u201d luck. Some Knicks fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7335760\/2026\/06\/05\/elmo-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-tweet\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7335760\/2026\/06\/05\/elmo-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-tweet\/\">called<\/a> the red puppet a traitor to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Fields said that championship-starved New Yorkers likely had bigger things on their mind than politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir feelings about the president are probably the last thing Knicks fans are thinking about,\u201d he said. \u201cFor one night, New Yorkers and the president can agree on one thing: Go Knicks.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=3175\">Trump\u2019s birthday spectacle contrasts wildly with Biden\u2019s understated 80th<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump would become the first sitting president to attend the NBA Finals. 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