{"id":259955,"date":"2026-06-09T01:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259955\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:03:12","slug":"trump-booed-at-nba-finals-game-in-new-york-citys-madison-square-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259955\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Booed at NBA Finals Game in New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Mamdani called the assault on the officer \u201cunacceptable\u201d in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nycmayor\/status\/2063346324662350115?s=46\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> at the time. \u201cNew Yorkers are rightfully excited about the Knicks&#8217; historic Finals run, and we want fans to celebrate this moment together. There is, however, no place for violence, and no tolerance for attacks on police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">If the Knicks win the series against the Spurs, it will mark their first NBA championship since 1973\u2014more than half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The tickets for the finals games in New York have been some of the most expensive in sports history, with some courtside seats being auctioned off by the Knicks for as much as $1,000,000, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/courtside-ticket-prices-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-game-three-2026-6\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Business Insider<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">When asked about the high ticket prices not being affordable for every-day Americans, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSNews\/status\/2063027962245480570\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> \u201cthat\u2019s the way life goes\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s sort of semi-free to watch it on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Players on both teams were asked about Trump\u2019s attendance ahead of Game 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mamdani called the assault on the officer \u201cunacceptable\u201d in a social media post at the time. \u201cNew Yorkers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,9,24,55,54,5296,56],"class_list":["post-259955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news-desk","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}