The Independent68%
‘I’m going’: Trump joining likes of Spike Lee and Timothee Chalamet at MSG for Knicks-Spurs on Monday 17%
By Rachel Dobkin54%
6/4/2026, 4:21:31 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Halo Effect, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 16.7% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 612 faulty-reasoning hits from 406 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.5% and a BS Rank of 17% (18,280 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.50% of the article peer group.
President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to attend the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs NBA finals game Monday night and may go to Game 4 as well.
The New York native will be at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan alongside a host of Knicks superfans, including the likes of filmmaker Spike Lee and actor Timothee Chalamet.
Lee and Chalamet were among the celebrities who attended Game 1 in San Antonio Wednesday night, along with comedian Tracy Morgan and actor Ben Stiller.
When a reporter asked whether Trump would attend a finals game at MSG, he boasted about the Knicks and said he would be at the stadium to watch them.
“I've been a Knicks fan for a long time, and I'm also a Jim Dolan fan.
He's a nice guy,” Trump said from the Oval Office Thursday, referring to the owner of the Knicks.
“He's been a long time wanting to win, and he's a competitive guy, and he's got a team that's amazing.”
Trump called Spurs Forward Victor Wembanyama “a great player.”
“How do you guard this guy?
Seven-foot-five, and he's got a great shot, right?
But they find a way to do it,” Trump added.
Wembanyama towered over his competitors on Wednesday, but it didn’t stop the Knicks from squeaking out a victory.
Trump has a penchant for attending live sports, even with the beefed-up security needed to attend such games.
He became the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl in February and went to a New York Yankees versus Detroit Tigers game last year while marking the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
It’s unclear what type of welcome Trump will get at MSG.
He has a net approval rating of -25 percent, a new low for the president, according to a new The Economist/YouGov poll.
New York is also a Democratic stronghold, which does not do any favors for the Republican president.
Game 2 will take place in San Antonio again on Friday before the teams head to New York.
Manhattan has been surging with energy this playoff season as the Knicks won their way to the finals for the first time in 27 years.
This year will be a rematch between the Knicks and the Spurs, who went head-to-head in 1999, when San Antonio won the championship.
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