Hollywood\u2019s love affair with the New York Knicks extends far beyond Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s exuberant courtside cheering, or even Spike Lee\u2019s unwavering support as a season ticketholder of 40-plus years. The team and its fandom have long figured into film and television as a symbol of the city\u2019s passion. Knicks fans know how to celebrate. They know how to persevere. And they know that they can leverage a man\u2019s loyalty to the team to convince him to do whatever it is that they want him to do.<\/p>\n
OK, yeah. That last one is a little specific to \u201cFriends.\u201d But if the promise of season tickets can tempt Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani into giving up the unbelievably spacious Greenwich Village apartment that New Yorkers still salivate over today, there must be something truly special about the Knicks.<\/p>\n
As you warm up for Game 5, why not revisit some of the team\u2019s most memorable moments on screen?<\/p>\n
In \u201cHow to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,\u201d Andie (Kate Hudson) carries out her grand dating experiment by asking Ben (Matthew McConaughey) to go fetch her a Diet Coke in the final quarter of the game. Not unlike Wednesday\u2019s jaw-dropping Game 4 comeback, the rom-com\u2019s Knicks clinch the win in the final few seconds. But Ben is too busy getting the soda to witness it. Poor guy.<\/p>\n
Remember in \u201cSex and the City\u201d when Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) dates Dr. Robert Leeds (Blair Underwood), the Knicks\u2019 team doctor who gives her floor seats, and still ends up leaving him for her ex-boyfriend? We love Steve (David Eigenberg), of course, but gosh, Miranda. Imagine the life you could have led!<\/p>\n
Speaking of sports doctors, Bill Hader plays one in \u201cTrainwreck,\u201d the rom-com in which he is beckoned back to the court after a Knicks game to witness his love interest, played by Amy Schumer, performing an elaborate dance routine with the Knicks City Dancers to his favorite song, Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cUptown Girl.\u201d Her ploy to win him over is successful, and everyone lives happily ever after (probably).<\/p>\n
The aforementioned scene in \u201cFriends\u201d is just one of many, many Knicks references made over the show\u2019s 10-season run. Joey is a diehard fan.<\/p>\n
The Nerdlucks had better stay far, far away from San Antonio during Game 5, because this \u201cSpace Jam\u201d scene in which they steal the basketball players\u2019 talents would be an absolute nightmare come true.<\/p>\n
In a memorable moment of Knicks fandom, Kramer (Michael Richards) recalls to Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) how he got kicked out of Madison Square Garden after getting \u201cinvolved\u201d in a fight between Spike Lee and Indiana Pacers player Reggie Miller. His weapon of choice? A hot dog.<\/p>\n
Honorable mention goes to Maggie Rogers, who isn\u2019t a film or television star but is an entertainer who threw a delightful bit of shade at the Knicks in her song \u201cSo Sick of Dreaming.\u201d The track features a voice recording of Rogers telling a friend about how an ex stood her up for dinner because he got last-minute Knicks tickets. Rogers says, \u201cAnd by the way, the Knicks lost.\u201d Karma! It\u2019s all in good fun, as Rogers is actually a big Knicks supporter in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood\u2019s love affair with the New York Knicks extends far beyond Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s exuberant courtside cheering, or even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-498666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}