{"id":807663,"date":"2026-07-18T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:14:10","slug":"trae-young-trolls-knicks-fans-in-trending-video-while-driving-around-nyc-amid-fanatics-fest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807663\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young Trolls Knicks Fans in Trending Video While Driving Around NYC Amid Fanatics Fest 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Washington Wizards guard Trae Young, who is in New York City for Fanatics Fest, trolled Knicks fans with an <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/traeyoung\/3943544236675391700\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram story<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Young, of course, has been Public Enemy No. 1 for Knicks fans since he led his old team, the Atlanta Hawks, to a five-game victory in the first round of the 2021 playoffs. He <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/hawks-trae-young-take-bow-after-sending-knicks-to-early-vacation\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">famously bowed<\/a> to the New York crowd after the 2021 series ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In Nov. 2024, Young told Knicks fans in Atlanta to watch the Hawks&#8217; 121-116 home victory over New York to &#8220;take your ass home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">One month later, Young blew on imaginary dice and threw them on the Knicks&#8217; midcourt logo in the NBA Cup quarterfinals, which the Hawks won 108-100 over New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">These days, Young plays for the Wizards after the Hawks traded him to Washington last January. It&#8217;s all but certain that there won&#8217;t be any love lost when the Wizards arrive in town to play the defending champion Knicks.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards guard Trae Young, who is in New York City for Fanatics Fest, trolled Knicks fans with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-807663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807663","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=807663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}