{"id":713254,"date":"2026-06-03T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713254\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:03:13","slug":"why-celebrities-are-cursing-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/713254\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Celebrities Are Cursing Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf the New York Knicks win the NBA Finals, they\u2019ll have one person to thank. That\u2019d be Danhausen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe WWE wrestler, whose shtick involves laying theatrical curses on his rivals, seems to have actual supernatural powers over the team\u2019s fortunes. On April\u202f17, he went on ESPN and hexed the Knicks during a TV beef with host (and Knicks superfan) Stephen A. Smith. Within a week, they started losing games \u2014 to the Atlanta Hawks, no less.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut 11 days later, on April\u202f28, Danhausen reversed the curse after a Knicks fan on Cameo offered to pay him (Cameo lists a cost of $200-plus for his services). The team instantly started winning again. They haven\u2019t lost a game since, sweeping the Philadelphia 76ers and Cleveland Cavaliers, building the most dominant scoring differential 10-game streak in NBA history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTurns out Danhausen isn\u2019t the only celebrity throwing down jinxes. Back in 2011, Lil B hexed Kevin Durant after the basketball star dissed the Bay Area rapper\u2019s music on Twitter. Sure enough, Durant\u2019s game stumbled for the next five years \u2014 until he signed with Lil B\u2019s hometown team, the Golden State Warriors, and all was forgiven. \u201cWelcome home KD,\u201d Lil B posted, \u201cthe curse is lifted.\u201d Durant went on to win back-to-back championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there was the time in 2018 when rapper and self-described witch Azealia Banks \u2014 who once posted a video of the blood-caked closet where she sacrificed chickens \u2014 got into an online spat with Lana Del Rey. Banks threatened to burn down Del Rey\u2019s house with voodoo. That curse, though, didn\u2019t take; the following year, Del Rey released her best reviewed album ever and her house is still standing.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd let\u2019s not forget the Kardashian Curse \u2014 or Kurse \u2014 which while entirely unintentional may be the most potent of all: Any athlete who gets romantically involved with a K girl can kiss their career goodbye. Just ask Lamar Odom. Or James Harden. Or Blake Griffin. <\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in Rambling Reporter:<\/p>\n

\n\tMeet Hollywood\u2019s other Jeffrey Epsteins<\/a>; Director Graydon Carter found himself<\/a> getting photographed aboard a boat in the Mediterranean \u2014 he\u2019s still trying to figure out exactly why.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the June 3 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the New York Knicks win the NBA Finals, they\u2019ll have one person to thank. That\u2019d be Danhausen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,340922,85],"class_list":["post-713254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-danhausen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}