{"id":473979,"date":"2026-06-12T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:05:10","slug":"alana-haim-reveals-she-made-taylor-swifts-nba-game-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473979\/","title":{"rendered":"Alana Haim reveals she made Taylor Swift\u2019s NBA game T-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swift attended game four of the NBA Finals in New York City on Wednesday, where the New York Knicks took on the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting courtside, the popstar was sat next to Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay, with the pair both wearing blue T-shirts which read \u201cStevie Knicks\u201d in orange letters.<\/p>\n<p>They were also seated next to Alana and Este Haim, who also wore co-ordinated shirts that played off the Knicks\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2.81853210.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift\" data-title=\"Graham Norton Show \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Matt Crossick Media Assignments\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>Alana Haim has revealed she made Taylor Swift a custom T-shirt (Matt Crossick\/ PA)<\/p>\n<p>While Alana wore a shirt that read \u201cKnickelback\u201d, her sister wore one that said \u201cKnicole Kidman\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been revealed that Haim was the designer of the unique tops, with her representative telling Vogue she purchased the shirts for 2.99 dollars (\u00a32.23) before applying screen-printing ink to them.<\/p>\n<p>The musician then told the publication that she was \u201cobsessed\u201d with making merch for her tours with her band \u2013 which includes her sisters Este and Danielle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we go on the road, the first thing we do is go to the local thrift store in whatever city we\u2019re in and buy vintage shirts. It\u2019s our tour memento. I\u2019ve wanted to make my own shirts forever, but I could never figure it out, but when I got home from our last tour, I bought a Cricut (a precision vinyl and paper-cutting printer),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining how she made the Knicks tops, Haim said the project began after Swift sent her a text putting in a request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2018I want to wear this shirt to the game, can you make it for me?\u2019, and I was like, \u2018I thought you would never ask, this is my dream\u2019. Whenever I start out a session with a friend, I go: \u2018Let\u2019s talk about fonts, let\u2019s talk about sizing\u2019, and (Swift) came up with Stevie Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were kind of going back and forth with these puns; we really just wanted to have fun, because we were so excited that we were going to the game, and I thought it would make people laugh, so we put them on shirts and all decided to wear them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haim also said Swift \u201creally wanted to bring extras to give to friends\u201d, which is how Hargitay ended up wearing one too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2.65833707.jpg\" alt=\"Alana Haim on the red carpet\" data-title=\"British Academy Film Awards 2022 \u2013 Arrivals \u2013 London\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Ian West\" data-usage-terms=\"\"  \/>Haim said making the shirts was a \u2018creative outlet\u2019 (Ian West\/ PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMariska was so down; she\u2019s such an amazing human being, and I\u2019m such a big fan of her, so the fact that she also wanted to wear one of my shirts was insane. It really bonded us all together,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never hugged someone more than at that game. It was such an incredible game, so I was really happy that we had brought extras.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haim \u2013 who described the clothes printing as a \u201ccreative outlet\u201d \u2013 is also an actress who has appeared in films including Licorice Pizza, One Battle After Another and The Drama.<\/p>\n<p>Several other stars were also at the game \u2013 including Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner, Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun, Adam Sandler and Michael J Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swift attended game four of the NBA Finals in New York City on Wednesday, where the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-473979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}