{"id":49501,"date":"2026-11-06T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/taylor-swift-branded-fakest-new-york-knicks-fan-by-player\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:35:11","slug":"taylor-swift-branded-fakest-new-york-knicks-fan-by-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/taylor-swift-branded-fakest-new-york-knicks-fan-by-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift branded \u2018fakest\u2019 New York Knicks fan by player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/knicks-championship-ring-ceremony-phishing-empty-boxes-b3072399.html\">New York Knicks<\/a> player Tyler Kolek has named<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-nashville-songwriters-hall-fame-b3074092.html\"> Taylor Swift<\/a> as the most performative celebrity fan of the NBA champion team.<\/p>\n<p>In a now-deleted NBA 2K League video, the 25-year-old athlete was asked to name the \u201cfakest celebrity Knicks fan\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/knicks-championship-ring-ceremony-phishing-empty-boxes-b3072399.html\">alongside his teammate<\/a>, Miles \u201cDeuce\u201d McBride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the Knicks games, I\u2019d say it\u2019s pretty performative. Because they\u2019re not necessarily fans,\u201d said Kolek. \u201cMaybe Taylor Swift?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McBride agreed, as Kolek added: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve seen her at any other games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-life-of-showgirl-encore-b3055061.html\">Swifties<\/a> are not gonna like that answer,\u201d laughed McBride, referring to the singer\u2019s massive fanbase.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>New York Knicks player Tyler Kolek has named Taylor Swift as the most performative celebrity fan of the NBA champion team. (@nba2kleague \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Kolek then appeared to retreat from his stance, saying: \u201cThe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/news\/taylor-swift-patient-zero-music-video-mtv-vmas-b3057296.html\">Swifties<\/a>, I\u2019m gonna get some hate from the Swifties\u2026 I guess she\u2019s got a lot going on so she can\u2019t come all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s tryna save his ass,\u201d McBride quipped.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Independent <\/em>has contacted Swift\u2019s representative for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/taylor-swift-knicks-fake-fan-tyler-kolek-b3080624.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks player Tyler Kolek has named Taylor Swift as the most performative celebrity fan of the NBA champion team. In a now-deleted NBA 2K League video, the 25-year-old athlete was asked to name the \u201cfakest celebrity Knicks fan\u201d alongside his teammate, Miles \u201cDeuce\u201d McBride. \u201cAt the Knicks games, I\u2019d say it\u2019s pretty performative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[708,36],"class_list":["post-49501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netbuzz","tag-lifestyle","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}